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Old 01-25-2013, 09:01 AM   #104 (permalink)
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I thought maybe he was reffering to the term indian but I was hoping surely not. But theres always extremists who probaly are really offened by the term just to have something to gripe about. No lie, I saw on a sports show last summer called "around the horn" where a segment of the show discussed changing the name of an NFL team. The reason was because even though this team had had the same name for god knows how many years, the name had become offensive to some of those in the indian culture. The team was non other our nations capitals Washington "Redskins."
Yeah, redskins is definitely a racial epithet. You might as well have a team called the Washington Darkies.
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