Political Correctness
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The stupid libs want to change the redskins to the redhawks cause its offensive :mj07:
Watch out HedgeHog, just mentioning this article will label you as a Racist Biggot by the likes of Trampled. Shawn and Airportis.
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Fuck all of their opinions about me :0074
Looks like the Washington redhawks are playing week 1 against the Dallas Cowboys
SAY WHAT? it is a lib that is proposing they change the name to Redhawks because Redskins is offensive :mj07: its the dumbest thing I have heard since they took away devil from the Rays and Bullets from the Washington basketball team :lol: fucking liberals never cease to amaze me
Republican Congressman: Redskins Should Change Their Name
DOUG MATACONIS ? FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 2013 ? 30 COMMENTS
Oklahoma Republican Tom Coe says that the Washington Redskins should change their name:
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. ? One of only two Native American members of Congress said that the Washington Redskins should change its team name because it is racially offensive to the minority group.
Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla., an enrolled member of the Chickasaw Nation, said on Thursday that he finds the name, a racial descriptor for indigenous Americans, deeply offensive and feels strongly that it should be changed.
?Come on. This is the 21st century. This is the capital of political correctness on the planet,? he said. ?It is very, very, very offensive. This isn?t like warriors or chiefs. It?s not a term of respect, and it?s needlessly offensive to a large part of our population. They just don?t happen to live around Washington, D.C.?
He noted there is precedent for changing a name: The Washington Bullets changed its name to the Wizards out of sensitivity to the high rate of murders in the city. Other offensive ethnic terms attached to team names would not be tolerated, Cole said, so neither should this.
?It?s a great football team with a great football tradition, and it shouldn?t have a name that?s derogatory to Native Americans attached to it,? added Cole, who said he roots for the team?s chief rival, the Dallas Cowboys.
Cole was for a long time the only Native American in Congress. That changed this month when Rep. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., a member of the Cherokee Nation, was sworn in.
I?ve personally never felt strongly about this one way or another, my only position on the Redskins as a lifelong Giants fan being that they must lose as much as possible, but Cole does seem to have a point here.
You are an idiot. The suggestion was to change it to Redtails. Washington changed their name due to the owner wanted to distance himself from violence associated with the city. Also Tampa changed their baseball team name for pure simplification as well as marketing. It wasn't any sort of liberal pressure.
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REDTAILS, REDHAWKS WHATS THE DIFFERENCE? THEY ARE THE REDSKINS
I still call them the Devil Rays and the Bullets by the way, fuck political correctness
What does Tampa removing Devil from name have to do with political correctness?
It had nothing to do with that you simpleton.
D-Rays drop Devil from name, now just Rays
Updated: November 8, 2007, 9:27 PM ET
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- The Tampa Bay Devil Rays are gone.
Trying to reinvent itself, the perennial last-place team officially shortened its nickname to simply "Rays" during a celebration that brought a crowd of about 7,000 to a downtown park Thursday night.
New team colors and uniforms were also unveiled during a fashion show featuring current players, as well as manager Joe Maddon, senior advisor Don Zimmer and former Tampa Bay stars Wade Boggs and Fred McGriff as models.
Navy blue and light blue have replaced green and black as the primary colors. The club's new logo, as well as the home and road uniforms for next season, feature the word "Rays" in navy blue lettering with a light blue shadow.
Team officials and local fans have routinely referred to the club as "Rays" for much of the expansion team's existence, but it wasn't until Stuart Sternberg took over as principal owner two years ago that consideration as given an actual name change.
"I think this gives us as an organization an identity," Sternberg said, noting that many of the team's employees have joined the club since he took control from former managing general partner Vince Naimoli.
"We were tied to the past, and the past wasn't necessarily something we wanted to be known for. Nobody's running from it or hiding from it, and we're proud of certain aspects of it, but this is something the organization was able to really put their arms around. I hope and expect the fans who come out will see it as a new beginning," he said.
Sternberg said the team began with more than 1,000 suggestions for a new name and whittled the list down to about 80.
"Rays" was the owner's first choice, but the organization considered others like Cannons, Stars, Wave and Dukes before settling on Rays and developing a logo featuring a bright yellow sunburst.
"We strayed a little bit. But after looking at everything, it was pretty clear that this was the one," Sternberg said.
Carl Crawford, Scott Kazmir, Rocco Baldelli, B.J. Upton, Delmon Young, Edwin Jackson and Al Reyes were among the players modeling the uniforms. The evening was capped by a concert featuring the actor Kevin Costner and his band, Modern West.
Sternberg said he actually had hoped to have the new nickname, team colors and uniforms ready for last season. He's happy he didn't rush and wind up with a final product he didn't like.
"I think it worked out well this way because I feel really confident that the team's performance on the field next year is going to take a very giant step forward," the owner said.
The team didn't abandon every aspect of the uniforms worn for the franchise's first 10 seasons.
An updated Devil Rays patch is on the left sleeve of the new jerseys. The club will also continue to operate a popular touch tank filled with cownose rays during games at Tropicana Field.
"I'm still a nostalgic sort of guy," Sternberg said. "And while I don't want to look back to the past, I think the region should be proud of having a major league baseball team and shouldn't forget all that was involved in bringing it here."
Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press
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He's been on the site but never comes back into a thread to say, "I was wrong."
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