Proud To Be

[Flashermac]

[StoneSoup]

This is a bullshit PC campaign - but - it will inevitably succeed. Washington Klingons - go for it. 'Beats Washington Parasites. Washington Oligarchs. District of Columbia Bedwetters. Capitol Plunderers.

 

SS

Former American Ex-pat

Now - American Exile

[Flashermac]

I don't really give a satang what they call themselves, but how would a team be viewed using any other racial or ethnic term now viewed as insulting? The South Philly Dagos? The Harlem Boos? The Boston Bogmen? The Dallas Wetbacks?

[baa99]

... or The Fighting Irish!

 

[YimSiam]

Indians had a PR campaign not long ago with e.g. New York Jews and San Francisco Chinamen, including similarly racist caricature logos - but people just don't seem to get it, or don't want to care. The condition of native Americans in the US is appalling - maybe it's such a deep shame, and the genocide such an incomprehensible history, that it's easier to gloss over, just wait 'til their gone and all that remains are some junk casinos and a few sports teams with strange names and logos.

[YimSiam]

... or The Fighting Irish!

 

Yeah, but the Irish DO fight a lot, and lots of them are short and funny-looking like that, and who other than the Irish routinely wear green suits, shamrock hats, and yellow shoes?! Maybe a pimp or two here and there, but otherwise, it's all Irish. Drunken, slurring, stumbling, fighting Irish.

[Flashermac]

Disease killed off the Native Americans more than anything. I've seen it argued that if it hadn't been for the devastation by European diseases, the settlers wouldn't have even been able to get a foothold in New England. Squanto, who helped the Pilgrims, had gone by ship to England and returned a few years later to find his village wiped out and his people not to be found. The Pilgrims landed in an area that had been depopulated by nothing more than measles, contracted when trading with a visiting merchant ship.

 

<< From the 16th through the 19th centuries, the population of Indians sharply declined. Most mainstream scholars believe that, among the various contributing factors, epidemic disease was the overwhelming cause of the population decline of the American natives because of their lack of immunity to new diseases brought from Europe. It is difficult to estimate the number of Native Americans living in what is today the United States of America. Estimates range from a low of 2.1 million to a high of 18 million (Dobyns 1983). By 1800, the Native population of the present-day United States had declined to approximately 600,000, and only 250,000 Native Americans remained in the 1890s. Chicken pox and measles, endemic but rarely fatal among Europeans (long after being introduced from Asia), often proved deadly to Native Americans.>>

 

<< After European explorers reached the West Coast in the 1770s, smallpox rapidly killed at least 30% of Northwest Coast Native Americans. For the next 80 to 100 years, smallpox and other diseases devastated native populations in the region. Puget Sound area populations, once estimated as high as 37,000 people, were reduced to only 9,000 survivors by the time settlers arrived en masse in the mid-19th century.

 

Smallpox epidemics in 1780–1782 and 1837–1838 brought devastation and drastic depopulation among the Plains Indians. By 1832, the federal government established a smallpox vaccination program for Native Americans (The Indian Vaccination Act of 1832). It was the first federal program created to address a health problem of Native Americans. >>

 

http://en.wikipedia....es#cite_note-45

[King Kung]

The Browns definitely have to go -- OFFENSIVE! Same with the Braves, Indians, Chiefs, and Blackhawks.

How about the REDS -- OFFENSIVE!

 

The Brewers? No way, OFFENSIVE!

 

San Diego Padres and Los Angeles Angels? Are you serious? I'm offended!

 

Can anyone say diversionary tactic from the country falling to pieces?