This is an interesting subject that dovetails with the Sterling news.

 

You can google for all the different detailed news stories.  But House Majority leader Harry Reid and several members of congress signed a petition asking Redskins owner Daniel Snyder to change the team name as it is derogatory towards Aboriginals.

 

I listened to TSN1290 discuss this last week and Troy Westwood was very passionate about the idea it should changed. 

 

Question is, at what point are names like this racist and derogatory and after Redskins is changed, will attention be turned to names like Blackhawks, Indians, Braves etc?

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/stop-eskimos-stop-inuit-group-wants-edmonton-cfl-team-to-change-name-1.3340521

I wonder when the Bombers will be told to change their name as the word Bomber is offensive to some? 

I wonder when the Bombers will be told to change their name as the word Bomber is offensive to some? 

It insights war and the blowing up of certain things.  GAH THE HUMANITY.

 

BTW, I love how most of the Inuit people on that CBC Eskimo's article don't want them to change it as it's not a name of disrespect and that elder people still call themselves Eskimo's up north and down south and that most Inuit people don't even find the name offensive, because it's not.

Watched that NFL Network program about high school football in Barrow,  Alaska. They players were calling themselves Eskimos. Not Inuit. How dumb are those kids not knowing they're insulting themselves nor are they being politically correct?

Eskimo is used by Inuit in Alaska, they do not find it offensive but Inuit in Canada do. Kind of the same way Indigenous people in Canada don't like the term "Indian" yet those in America don't mind. I would never call myself an "Indian" since its a term based on mistaken identity.

I think if one group find Eskimo offensive I think it's worthy of asking why and listening.

Why alienate a certain section of society just because you don't agree or understand.