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Originally Posted by wewhite3
This football team has been on actual notice from 1972 that Native Americans found this name offensive," attorney Thomas Morrison, representing the American Indian groups, told the U.S. Court of Appeals. "I don't think we'd be hearing this debate if it were a different ethnic group."
Terms such as "blackies" or "spics" would clearly be unacceptable for any team name, Morrison said in court.
enough said for me
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Before you start playing the race card, go back and read my post about what the term 'redskins' means in terms of the Redskins nickname. It is used in a totally different way as 'blackies' or 'spics'. I'm affraid that some people are trying to make this out into something that it totally is not.