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Anti-Redskins ad airing during NBA Finals[W:125]

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[h=1]Anti-Redskins commercial to air during NBA Finals[/h] Posted by Michael David Smith on June 10, 2014, 9:00 AM EDT
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Getty ImagesOpponents of the name of the Washington Redskins will air their message before a large audience of sports fans tonight.
The Washington Post reports that the Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation, a tribe based in California, has paid for a 60-second anti-Redskins commercial to run during halftime of tonight’s NBA Finals game. The ad will run in Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, Sacramento, San Francisco and Washington, and the tribe said it made a “significant investment” to purchase the air time.
The commercial begins with a long montage of names and labels that Native Americans call themselves, like “proud” and “forgotten,” “Navajo” and “Blackfoot,” “patriot” and “soldier,” “Jim Thorpe” and “Billy Mills.” It ends with the narrator saying, “Native Americans call themselves many things. The one thing they don’t” and then an image of a Redskins helmet.
A longer version of the ad was posted on YouTube just before the Super Bowl and has been viewed nearly 2 million times.


For more go the changethemascot.org
 
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Re: Tonighjt June 11 Watch The NBA Half Time For A Redskins Protest of Racism

It's about time. People need to grow up and stop supporting racial slurs as "tradition".
 
Re: Tonighjt June 11 Watch The NBA Half Time For A Redskins Protest of Racism

It's about time. People need to grow up and stop supporting racial slurs as "tradition".

People need to grow up and stop concerning themselves with what teams are named.
 
Re: Tonighjt June 11 Watch The NBA Half Time For A Redskins Protest of Racism

People need to grow some thicker skin.
The idiot Indians that are protesting have no clue how the name came about and that their forefathers blessed the name decades ago.
I could see changing up Chief Wahoo, to something alittle more respectful.
But the DC team, we have always held the logo and the name in very high regard.
Hell, the name of the fight song is Hail to the Redskins.
 
Re: Tonighjt June 11 Watch The NBA Half Time For A Redskins Protest of Racism

It's pretty annoying that butthurt people always have to throw themselves in your face when you're trying to enjoy yourself. Oh my god, go the **** away butthurt tribe. No one wants to deal with your **** right now.
 
Re: Tonighjt June 11 Watch The NBA Half Time For A Redskins Protest of Racism

Is there even a definitive consensus on this from the Native American community?

It was only a few months ago I was watching something on ESPN about Redskins being a popular NA high school mascot.
 
Re: Tonighjt June 11 Watch The NBA Half Time For A Redskins Protest of Racism

People need to grow up and stop concerning themselves with what teams are named.

Because not caring about racism is the grown up thing to do. *snicker*

Where'd you learn that?
 
Re: Tonighjt June 11 Watch The NBA Half Time For A Redskins Protest of Racism

There is no game tonight.....
 
Re: Tonighjt June 11 Watch The NBA Half Time For A Redskins Protest of Racism

It's pretty annoying that butthurt people always have to throw themselves in your face when you're trying to enjoy yourself. Oh my god, go the **** away butthurt tribe. No one wants to deal with your **** right now.

How does Washington DC's team changing its name reduce your enjoyment?

Is that like gays marrying reducing ones marriage, or gays parading reducing ones manliness?
 
Re: Tonighjt June 11 Watch The NBA Half Time For A Redskins Protest of Racism

There is no game tonight.....

That's an interesting point.
 
Re: Tonighjt June 11 Watch The NBA Half Time For A Redskins Protest of Racism

[h=1]Anti-Redskins commercial to air during NBA Finals[/h] Posted by Michael David Smith on June 10, 2014, 9:00 AM EDT
71238a123a75412059d199554f6e833a.jpg
Getty ImagesOpponents of the name of the Washington Redskins will air their message before a large audience of sports fans tonight.
The Washington Post reports that the Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation, a tribe based in California, has paid for a 60-second anti-Redskins commercial to run during halftime of tonight’s NBA Finals game. The ad will run in Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, Sacramento, San Francisco and Washington, and the tribe said it made a “significant investment” to purchase the air time.
The commercial begins with a long montage of names and labels that Native Americans call themselves, like “proud” and “forgotten,” “Navajo” and “Blackfoot,” “patriot” and “soldier,” “Jim Thorpe” and “Billy Mills.” It ends with the narrator saying, “Native Americans call themselves many things. The one thing they don’t” and then an image of a Redskins helmet.
A longer version of the ad was posted on YouTube just before the Super Bowl and has been viewed nearly 2 million times.


For more go the changethemascot.org

This really hasn't made my list of ten thousand and a few political issues or priorities.
 
Re: Tonighjt June 11 Watch The NBA Half Time For A Redskins Protest of Racism

How does Washington DC's team changing its name reduce your enjoyment?

Is that like gays marrying reducing ones marriage, or gays parading reducing ones manliness?

I was referring to the commercial that is just some butthurt tribe that needs something else to do.
 
Re: Tonighjt June 11 Watch The NBA Half Time For A Redskins Protest of Racism

I was referring to the commercial that is just some butthurt tribe that needs something else to do.

The commercial reduces your enjoyment?

:lamo


If anti-racist commercials really make you so sad, you could get Tivo and skip it. Don't be such a victim!
 
Re: Tonighjt June 11 Watch The NBA Half Time For A Redskins Protest of Racism

Because not caring about racism is the grown up thing to do. *snicker*

Where'd you learn that?
And how many billion have been spent on the "native American" in the last 10 decades?
 
Re: Tonighjt June 11 Watch The NBA Half Time For A Redskins Protest of Racism

And how many billion have been spent on the "native American" in the last 10 decades?

And that excuses racism?

Or do you object, like others, because you're a VICTIM of evil tribes ruining your TV enjoyment with commercials?
 
Re: Tonighjt June 11 Watch The NBA Half Time For A Redskins Protest of Racism

There is no June 11 NBA finals game but you are free to try to watch it. ;)
 
Re: Tonighjt June 11 Watch The NBA Half Time For A Redskins Protest of Racism

And that excuses racism?

Or do you object, like others, because you're a VICTIM of evil tribes ruining your TV enjoyment with commercials?

Really?
 
Re: Tonighjt June 11 Watch The NBA Half Time For A Redskins Protest of Racism


So you're not a victim like Henrin? That poor guy has the whole game ruined when he sees an anti-racism commercial. I hope he gets Tivo and stops suffering so horribly.

It's terrible what those tribes are doing to him. There oughta be a law!
 
Re: Tonighjt June 11 Watch The NBA Half Time For A Redskins Protest of Racism

And that excuses racism?

Or do you object, like others, because you're a VICTIM of evil tribes ruining your TV enjoyment with commercials?

Anyone that gets TIVO to record TV is a real idiot. Yes, annoying commercials filled with cry babies annoy me. I don't however watch the NBA or really much TV at all so this won't affect me.
 
Re: Tonighjt June 11 Watch The NBA Half Time For A Redskins Protest of Racism

So you're not a victim like Henrin? That poor guy has the whole game ruined when he sees an anti-racism commercial. I hope he gets Tivo and stops suffering so horribly.

It's terrible what those tribes are doing to him. There oughta be a law!
Law, how many laws have passed giving the native Americans tax breaks, grants, loans, reparations, land etc etc.
 
Re: Tonighjt June 11 Watch The NBA Half Time For A Redskins Protest of Racism

Law, how many laws have passed giving the native Americans tax breaks, grants, loans, reparations, land etc etc.

So what?

That causes anti-racist commercials to make you angry?
 
Re: Tonighjt June 11 Watch The NBA Half Time For A Redskins Protest of Racism

So what?

That causes anti-racist commercials to make you angry?
You equate anger with "tired of too many easily butt hurt cry babies".
 
Re: Tonighjt June 11 Watch The NBA Half Time For A Redskins Protest of Racism

People need to grow up and stop concerning themselves with what teams are named.

why? Are you suggesting we don't have a right to an opinion?
 
Re: Tonighjt June 11 Watch The NBA Half Time For A Redskins Protest of Racism

By what criteria is the name racist?
 
Re: Tonighjt June 11 Watch The NBA Half Time For A Redskins Protest of Racism

By what criteria is the name racist?

It's a slur.

Even if it was a positive generalization (as some claim) that is still harmful to society as it perpetuates a stereotype at the expense of non-militant Native Americans in portraying them, as a whole, as warmongers.
 
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