Sioux Logo Opponents: We Lost Spirit Lake Vote Because The Indians Weren’t Educated Enough

• April 22, 2009

I note with no small amount of satisfaction that the tribal members of the Spirit Lake reservation voted overwhelmingly in favor of the University of North Dakota’s “Fighting Sioux” nickname. As might be expected, opponents of the nickname who have invested years of their time and untold amounts of money fighting the nickname are feeling some sour grapes. While that’s to be expected, I certainly didn’t expect this sort of a reaction as described by the Grand Forks Herald’s city beat reporter Tu-Uyen Tran:

Nickname opponents are saying that voters just haven’t been educated, as they’d been saying all along. If they’d had the time and the resources, they could’ve won.

So…what does that mean exactly? That the Indians of the Spirit Lake reservation weren’t educated enough to know that the UND nickname should offend them?
I’m not even sure how to respond to that.

Tags: Asshats, Domestic Issues, North Dakota News, Politics, Sports

http://Array 2Hotel9

Typical Democrat racism and stupidity. Why do “minorities” insist on voting for politicians, and reading newspapers written by people, who hate them? Who steal from them and destroy any chance their children will get a decent education, or jobs?
jimmypop

the people of the tribe are smart. unless of course… i guess i will just wait for the GF Herald start writing stories about byron, kent and earl with this same message.
http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/entry/homosexuality_is_wrong_-_a_compendium move_zig

(the ass-)clown has promised to fight on when he figured out that his side had no way of winning.

But TW, dontcha know:

He’s going the distance.. He’s going for speed
http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

I’m doubly offended having both Scandahoovian and Irish bloodlines.

There’s a joke in there somewhere.
Pilgrim

I’ve never understood the objection.

“Fighting Sioux”. That’s an honorable, dignified mane for a team and recognizes the wattior in the Sious people.

What’s the problem?

Like I’ve said before, I could understand an objection if the team’s name were “Wimpy Sioux” or “Girly Man Sioux” or something like that.

But to object to “Fighting Sioux”? PC bull, and nothing of substance.
duh moments

Oh, allow me to respond. What the pinheads are saying is that they have not had enough time to instill more reverse racism in the Native American community that somehow whites are ALWAYS against the Native people. It is the classic case of continuing to profile people in order to say you are not profiling people. And it got old a LONG time ago.
Spartacus

You, Sir, are a genius.

No, I just stayed in a express holiday in last night…I needed a few Molsons to recover from it….
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Of course all along nickname opponents claimed that people for it were stupid or racist.

This is nothing new.
http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

I’m doubly offensive having both Scandahoovian and Irish bloodlines.

There! Fixed that for you, Toot! Heh. I’m a wee bit Irish myself!
Cletus Funk

What about the Red Skins?

All I know is what I read in USA Today.

A poll of American Indians found that an overwhelming majority of them are not bothered by the name of the Washington Redskins.

Only 9% of those polled said the name of the NFL team is “offensive,” while 90% said it’s acceptable, according to the University of Pennsylvania’s National Annenberg Election Survey…
Spartacus

Typical Democrat racism and stupidity.

No, 2H9, it’s typical Liberal elitism. Liberals really believe that those that don’t agree with them lack the enlightened mental capacity that Liberals are blessed with. It’s a common mental disorder that’s proudly displayed here at SAB by the regular Liberal visitors and numerous drive by Lib visitors.
Pilgrim

Sorry for the above type-o’s. Major distractions at the moment.

You know what I meant anyway.

And to steal a line from “Platoon” most of the lefties out there don’t read so good no how.”
Jay

Kinda hilarious how those engineering the change managed to enter into an agreement whereby the Tribe would take all the blame for the name change if it occurred. Equally funny how those same individuals didn’t at least consider that the tribes may not give a crap, but for a few “elders”.

The NCAA really dicked this one up. Tribal nicknames are either offensive or they aren’t. Either all of the schools with tribal monikers get rid of them or you leave it up to the individual schools to make that determination. You don’t get to exempt the money-making insitutions and you shouldn’t have to go through this process to determine which ones are and which ones aren’t. STUPID.
Hannitized

Like I’ve said before, I could understand an objection if the team’s name were “Wimpy Sioux” or “Girly Man Sioux” or something like that.

What about the Red Skins?
docdave

Nickname opponents are saying that voters just haven’t been educated, as they’d been saying all along. If they’d had the time and the resources, they could’ve won.

The word ‘educated’ should be changed to ‘indoctrinated’ which is the only way that lefties can get their rascist doctrine accepted.
drk

Well, if I was choosing a name for my school team, I’d sure pick a racial slur, not something to represent pride in my school.

I can’t believe all the people over in Ireland haven’t voted down the Fighting Irish name at Notre Dame, especially with that offensive logo!
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And dogs.
2Hotel9

I get it! Being Democrats is only a secondary infection to the cancer they already have. BRILLIANT! I will incorporate it into the standard derision heaping package.

You, Sir, are a genius.
Bat One

What about the Red Skins [sic]?

The Washington, DC NFL franchise is not what’s being discussed here. Please try to pay attention!
http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

They just gotta make excuses for being out of touch with the reality.

Of course the Grand Forks Herald [strike]editor/publisher[/strike] clown has promised to fight on when he figured out that his side had no way of winning.
robert108

This is how lefties really feel when the will of the people doesn’t agree with their predigested ideology.
http://grandforker.com/ Patrick C. Miller

The NCAA really dicked this one up. Tribal nicknames are either offensive or they aren’t.

The NCAA’s justification for adopting its ill-conceived policy was that the stereotyping of humans is wrong. So if the NCAA really, truly wanted to deal with a practice it considers morally wrong, it should have applied the policy to all nicknames that reference humans and gotten rid of them without exception.

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