@engineer,
I get your point but I would call it a
politically correct victory.
There are 62 schools which use "Redskins" for the team name including Red Mesa HS which is on a Navajo reservation in Arizona, the student body of which is 99% American Indian. The student body isn't in revolt and refusing to attend school until the name is changed.
A recent poll of American Indians showed that 90% didn't find the term offensive.
It's difficult to take the offensive against this so-called
offense seriously when the majority of the people who one would expect to be offended are not.
Yes, there are American Indians among those leading the offensive, but I think I could find a few hundred white people to argue they are offended by the term "white bread," and no one would take seriously a movement to have sandwich bread called "colorless bread" or "pale bread" because the term "white bread" has been used in derogatory fashion to describe white people.
This is yet another case of people, who somehow believe that being offended ennobles them, constantly searching for the
offensive. There will never be an end to their search. It sustains them.
What is offensive though is the suggestion by those who press on in their offensive against "redskins" that the American Indians who do not find the term to be offending only feel that way because they have had their souls crushed by the White Man.
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