Quote:This is very much the same. The Confederacy were established humans on their land. The US army attacked them, and forced them to live by different rules. How is that any different from what the American Indians went through? The North fired the first shots in the Civil War.


The Indians lost. Time for them to suck it up and stop whining. At least the NFL isn't demanding that they desecrate their burial grounds.

Ok, here's my actual response:


Native Americans did not commit an act of treason against the United States in order to preserve an inherently racist institution. Native Americans were unwillingly forced from land they'd occupied for thousands of years by Americans with superior firepower and a self-imposed right to control the entire continent. To equate a people who were systematically violated in the name of manifest destiny with a band of traitors who objected to the idea that states don't have the right to maintain slavery is a patently ridiculous notion, and it's an insult to Native Americans. We don't need to continue apologizing to them centuries later, but it's not too much to ask that we refrain from using the Native American equivalent of the n-bomb as the name for one of the most prestigious sports clubs in the country, maybe the world.

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