Another day and another woke school board or legislative body wastes time and taxpayer money virtue signaling over the use of Native American names and mascots for sports teams. Besides being bigoted, the movement to ban such names is costly, cynical and counter-productive. They are also blatantly discriminatory no matter how many lies the left tells trying to persuade Americans that their motives in pushing this agenda are pure and the goal is racial harmony. The truth is far more sinister. Just like BLM used the “Hands up, don’t shoot” lie about the Michael Brown shooting to advance a racist agenda that is culminating in the openly racist Critical Race Theory agenda being forced into public schools, the activists behind the campaign against Native American names being used in sports are hoping to parlay that bigoted nonsense into a massive campaign to raise cash to fight a nearly nonexistent racism problem. Once they raise the cash, those same scoundrels will almost certainly steal it for their personal use, just like the leaders of BLM have done.
Some may wonder how anyone can be so certain of the evil motives of the race hustlers pushing to eliminate Native American names. The answer to that unasked question is that certainty is a product of experience and understanding. Based on that, anyone willing to look at the people pushing this agenda: plaintiffs’ attorneys, and a disgruntled small minority of racist Native Americans who claim to speak for ALL Native Americans, sees a nearly exact parallel to the campaign that BLM waged on the way to becoming a multinational, multimillion dollar, race-based shakedown operation that exploits white guilt and corporate cowardice while enriching its scam artist leaders. BLM did this by; 1) stoking racial tensions by presenting a lie as truth; 2) accusing anyone who questioned the lie of being racist; 3) accusing America and white Americans of being systemically racist; 4) demanding justice, aka compensation, aka cash, for the victims of white/systemic racism; and 5) claiming the existence of a limitless and unending stream of racist behavior that ensures that no amount of reparations can ever fully compensate black Americans for their suffering.
Sound familiar? It should, because the Native American race baiting community is trying to the same thing, and they dream of being as rich and powerful as BLM. They are in the early stages of their campaign, but they are presenting a truth as a lie by claiming that Native American names were used to denigrate and insult Native Americans. They accuse anyone who disagrees of being racist: check your privilege, pale face! They assert confidently that America as a whole, and particularly all white Americans, are racist. Their demands are for the elimination of only Native American names because they want to highlight the singular suffering of Native Americans and lay the groundwork for the financial claims to follow. The BLM leadership claimed that the phrase “Black Lives Matter” was not intended to put down other groups, but blatantly used it as a cudgel to try and shame white Americans into giving them money. It worked, especially with liberals and government types. It is a sure bet that Native American race baiters want to parlay their grievance into a guilt-driven cash machine as well.
The Native American bigots pushing this campaign have yet to make specific financial claims, but their constant rhetoric about the terrible shame, anger, and humiliation that Native Americans feel whenever Atlanta Braves fans do the “tomahawk chop” guarantee that a demand for payment will be presented soon. When that time comes, it will be a safe bet that school districts, cities, and states that acquiesced to Native American naming demands will be trotted out as proof that those entities agreed with the assertion that major damage was done by “racist” names. That leads naturally to the final clinching wealth grab. If Native American groups claim naming teams after them is racist, humiliating, and insulting to them, and based on those claims government moved to eliminate that behavior and enforce laws against it vigorously, it stands to reason the suffering Of Native Americans has been admitted by the state, and de facto, the state has validated their demands for compensation. “Show me the money!!!”, will become their new mantra. It is disgusting, divisive and corrupt.
It is probably too late to put the racial, sexual, ethnic religious, etc., grievance machine out of business. The only way for white Americans to get their fair share of the grievance industry booty is to become grifters too. Seriously folks, is ANYTHING more offensive, insulting and soul-searing than this:
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Pale white souls are shaking in humiliation, shame, outrage, and a desire for money… reparations as it were. How can government allow such an outrage?!?! Silly you say?!?! It gets worse!
How about this mascot portraying Irish men as fat, tobacco addicted, physically disabled, and superstitious?
Or perhaps we want to sink to an all-time “low”:
Seriously?!?! If not fat and physically disabled, Irishmen are depicted as elfishly short and mean tempered to the point of violence? Fighting Irish?!?! That Irish green clothing stereotype is ridiculous too. They may as well allege the Irish are from Mars and make their skin green as well. It is amazing that Irish people in America have been able to bear the stigma and pain for so long without financial compensation. Fortunately, there are some brave souls willing to take up the fight.
I support the Irish! Furthermore, being of English, Scotch, Dutch and Prussian descent I am determined to get reparations for these painful stereotypes:
Can you get any more racist against white people? We are either bloodthirsty pirates, or hostile, pasty-white, war mongers? Anglo-Saxon Americans cannot abide these horrible stereotypes of our heritage any longer!! Only a million-dollar check for each of us can suffice to ease our pain. I call upon all Americans to right these wrongs and give us compensation. If that happens, there’s this bridge in Brooklyn…
Have a Happy Easter and enjoy the Easter Bunny while you still can. He IS mocking Christians, you know… see you court!
Ned Claybrook
16 April 2022
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Years ago, Austin Peay State University, in Clarksville, Tennessee, proposed changing names. One of them was Northern University of Tennessee “NUTS”. That never made the cut. Instead, they chose to use a graphic depicting an angry governor, which is probably better, since one side, or the other hates the governor, so no one can really be a victim of a racial or ethnic “slur”, in their own mind. Turns out to have been a good move, by “NUTS”.
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That mascot is still plainly an angry white dude. Unacceptable on many fronts. Whites are offended because it makes them look angry. Blacks are offended because it suggests only white men can be governor, and women are offended because it overtly advocates for male political dominance. Meanwhile LGBTQ+ people and other POC are ignored and marginalized completely. The Horror!!
If Vikings were braiding their hair over a millennium in the past, is the adoption of this with hair extensions in today’s ethnic hairstyles another example of cultural appropriation, or did the Chinese also invent this earlier with the coolie’s single braid?
The only thing we can be sure of is that the Vikings were racist and the Chinese were not. ; )
I still call the Washington NFL team the Redskins, and the Cleveland baseball team the Indians.
Good idea.
I just ignore both teams now…