Cleveland is cursed
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Can't tell if I'm serious? Ok let's put this in perspective. This country is founded on the genocide of OVER 70 MILLION Native Americans. So not only did this country kill them, give them diseases their immune systems weren't accustomed to, keep moving them west, taking their land, making treaties with them and not fulfilling them, and turning a beautiful land into a polluted wasteland where corporations have taken over power and call the shots, and then we go and make our team the Cleveland fucking Indians, with a logo with a red face and a feather, and huge smiling teeth... And you can't tell if I'm serious? Holy fuck.....
Can't tell if I'm serious? Ok let's put this in perspective. This country is founded on the genocide of OVER 70 MILLION Native Americans. So not only did this country kill them, give them diseases their immune systems weren't accustomed to, keep moving them west, taking their land, making treaties with them and not fulfilling them, and turning a beautiful land into a polluted wasteland where corporations have taken over power and call the shots, and then we go and make our team the Cleveland fucking Indians, with a logo with a red face and a feather, and huge smiling teeth... And you can't tell if I'm serious? Holy fuck.....
What is wrong with the name 'Indians'? It isn't insulting at all. That's what they were called. What should we call ourselves, the Cleveland 'Native Americans'?
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Really, it's not insulting at all? Lets see how America would react the NY Jews, the Baltimore Blacks, SF Chinamen....
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Really, it's not insulting at all? Lets see how America would react the NY Jews, the Baltimore Blacks, SF Chinamen....
Really, it's not insulting at all? Lets see how America would react the NY Jews, the Baltimore Blacks, SF Chinamen....
Oh, stfu.
"You planning on having a long relationship with that glass or are you going to drink it? Drink up, man. Maybe we can get another.” - Janis Joplin, 1970. -
Really, it's not insulting at all? Lets see how America would react the NY Jews, the Baltimore Blacks, SF Chinamen....
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Oh, stfu.
Gotta love political correctness.
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I don't care what Chud says
I believe it
...and been cursed for a long time...
Cursed or real bad Karma- let's see- since 1964 The Drive, The Fumble, 9th inning Choke in Game 7 of the World Series, Le Bron bailing on the Cavs.
Oh, and it's not "Indians" the Native Americans find degrading- It's Chief Wahoo they can't stand. Is the Blackhawks Logo any less degrading?
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I don't care what Chud says
I believe it
...and been cursed for a long time...
Cursed or real bad Karma- let's see- since 1964 The Drive, The Fumble, 9th inning Choke in Game 7 of the World Series, Le Bron bailing on the Cavs.
Oh, and it's not "Indians" the Native Americans find degrading- It's Chief Wahoo they can't stand. Is the Blackhawks Logo any less degrading?
Cursed or real bad Karma- let's see- since 1964 The Drive, The Fumble, 9th inning Choke in Game 7 of the World Series, Le Bron bailing on the Cavs.
Oh, and it's not "Indians" the Native Americans find degrading- It's Chief Wahoo they can't stand. Is the Blackhawks Logo any less degrading?
Thank you
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Can't tell if I'm serious? Ok let's put this in perspective. This country is founded on the genocide of OVER 70 MILLION Native Americans. So not only did this country kill them, give them diseases their immune systems weren't accustomed to, keep moving them west, taking their land, making treaties with them and not fulfilling them, and turning a beautiful land into a polluted wasteland where corporations have taken over power and call the shots, and then we go and make our team the Cleveland fucking Indians, with a logo with a red face and a feather, and huge smiling teeth... And you can't tell if I'm serious? Holy fuck.....
Can't tell if I'm serious? Ok let's put this in perspective. This country is founded on the genocide of OVER 70 MILLION Native Americans. So not only did this country kill them, give them diseases their immune systems weren't accustomed to, keep moving them west, taking their land, making treaties with them and not fulfilling them, and turning a beautiful land into a polluted wasteland where corporations have taken over power and call the shots, and then we go and make our team the Cleveland fucking Indians, with a logo with a red face and a feather, and huge smiling teeth... And you can't tell if I'm serious? Holy fuck.....
I don't want this to get into a political debate, but you do have a point. "Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee" should be required reading for every High School student on how our manifest destiny royally screwed the Native Americans, and deposited them on some of the most God-forsaken real estate in the country. For those that don't know, here's a question for you- how did Crazy Horse die? Answer- some smart ass Army private thought it would be cool to stab him in the back on the reservation.
I'll never forget this quote I saw on a plaque in a Real Estate office in Estes Park Colorado from the great Arapaho Chief Red Cloud. "When the White Man came, he made to us many promises, more than I can remember. But he never kept but one. He promised to take our land, and he took it."
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Really, it's not insulting at all? Lets see how America would react the NY Jews, the Baltimore Blacks, SF Chinamen....
Really, it's not insulting at all? Lets see how America would react the NY Jews, the Baltimore Blacks, SF Chinamen....
Uhm, FYI, "The Cleveland Browns" is a specific reference to the color of the skin of African-Americans. The Cleveland Browns derive their name from Boxer Joe Louis.....aka "The Brown Bomber". The Brown Bomber being a reference to his skin.
So, if we are being politically correct we would have the following teams in this town:
The Cleveland Native Americans
The Cleveland African Americans
The Cleveland Royalist Supporters of King Charles I
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New York Knickerbockers, Minnesota Vikings, Boston Celtics, Edmonton Eskimos, Vancouver Canucks ...
San Diego St. Aztecs, Michigan St. Spartans, USC Trojans Pennsylvania Quakers, and bunch of "Fighting Scots"...
All ethnic groups.
Zombo
Zombo said:
New York Knickerbockers, Minnesota Vikings, Boston Celtics, Edmonton Eskimos, Vancouver Canucks ...
San Diego St. Aztecs, Michigan St. Spartans, USC Trojans Pennsylvania Quakers, and bunch of "Fighting Scots"...
All ethnic groups.
Zombo
Technically "Viking" is not a reference to an ethnic group. Essentially to "go viking" meant to go raiding. To be a "Viking" did not actually mean being a person of Scandinavian or Nordic descent....but simply meant that you went on raids pillaging and plundering. The term however became so closely associated with Nordic Raiders that it pretty much stuck to them.....but, theoretically you could have "Spanish Vikings" or Italian Vikings.
Etymology
A reconstructed Viking Age long house
The Old Norse feminine noun víking refers to an expedition overseas. It occurs in Viking Age runic inscriptions and in later medieval writings in set expressions such as the phrasal verb fara í víking "to go on an expedition". In later texts, such as the Icelandic sagas, the phrase "to go on a viking" implies participation in raiding activity or piracy and not simply seaborne missions of trade and commerce. The derived Old Norse masculine noun víkingr appears in Viking Age skaldic poetry and on several rune stones found in Scandinavia, where it refers to a seaman or warrior who takes part in an expedition overseas. The word víking derives from the feminine vík, meaning "creek, inlet, small bay".[4]
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