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Amanda Blackhorse, the lead plaintiff in the Redskins trademark case, said a Navajo high school and Native Americans can refer to themselves as "Redskins" but Daniel Snyder and the Washington football team can't.
When ESPN host Bob Ley asked her about the Red Mesa High School Redskins on an Outside The Lines special on the controversy over the Redskins name, Blackhorse, who also compared those who are offended by the name to domestic abuse victims, said there was a difference between the Red Mesa Redskins and the Washington Redskins.
"We can call ourselves whatever we want to call ourselves. You can't, Dan Snyder. You cannot refer to us in that manner," Blackhorse, who belongs to the Navajo Nation, said. "What happens in your games and the type of stereotyping and mocking of our culture does not happen in the games here on the Navajo Nation. We don't refer to ourselves in that way."
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And THAT is the definition of racism. OK for one race, but not for another. Racism in the name of fighting racism. How absurd.
No. You're comparing apples and intercontinetal ballistic missiles. What do they have in common? They're both nouns, they both physically exist but they're not even CLOSE to being the same thing.
I have issues with the N-word. Axl Rose was once criticized for using it in a song and in an interview he said:
"Hell, they call themselves n:883rs why can't I?"
At that point I made it my my mission to stop using it. I figured he had a bit of a point and if I stopped using it, he'd have no reason to use it to describe me or anyone else. But here's the thing, whether or not I want to use that disgusting prejorative to describe myself or any other person of color is entirely up to me. I CHOOSE not to because the word to me has a horrible connotation and was used as a means of keeping people subjegated.
For the most part when persons of color refer to one another as a racial slur, it's done playfully and mockingly as a term of endearment.
I PERSONALLY think it's kinda silly and don't do it, but that the reason behind it.
To that end, a black guy calling another black guy
"n:883r" , an Indian calling another Indian
"R3d$k:n", an Asian calling another Asian a
"g00k",
is NOT the same as a person who is NOT a member of one of the aforementioned using the term as the groups in question didn't INVENT the offensive terms as a means of subjegating
THEMSELVES and weren't using the terms to remind them to know their "place." Conversely I've heard Italians call OTHER Italians
"w0p" and
"da80" and the Irish refer to one another as
"m:cks" but I sure as hell won't call them that as I LIKE my teeth and structural integrity of my jaw.
