Thought For The Day

Pathetic Late Than Never

July 14, 2020

At long last, the Washington, DC professional football mercenaries – who we have long referred to as the Washington Racists – are jettisoning their despicable name and logo. The replacement has yet to be determined, but finally the front office, i.e. the recalcitrant owner, has relented and officially announced the long-overdue retirement of the disgraceful moniker that has been the target of protest for decades. The owner said, as recently as 2013, “We’ll never change the name. It’s that simple. NEVER – you can use caps.” Welcome to NEVER.

Unsurprisingly, the last straw was the team’s largest investors applying the most American pressure of all. This, despite the fact that beginning in 1968 the National Congress of American Indians launched a campaign to eliminate insulting and harmful stereotypes of indigenous peoples perpetuated by media and popular culture. Of particular concern was the continued use of racist and derogatory “Indian” sports mascots, logos and symbols; of which there is probably no more overt and shameless example than the one at issue here, it being analogous to the “n” word, though without the obviously warranted social stigma of the latter.

Apparently stealing the land, committing genocide on the people and ignoring treaty after treaty, most of which continues to this day, was not destructive and degrading enough.

The Paying Attention team has voted on our choice to replace the old name, and they don’t even have to change too much. Plus, it would provide at least a pretense of remorse.

We give you the Washington, DC Rednecks:

They would only need to keep it for 87 years or so, and
if some people object, it can be changed at that time

Liberté, égalité, fraternité.

This has been your Paying Attention Thought For The Day.

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