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Contrary to the views of sentimentalists, a people long conditioned to satirical, hard-edged personal names like Stumbling Bear , who have suffered for five centuries the misnomer Indians and who once merrily referred to whites as Long Noses and Palefaces , are hardly likely to be mortified by Redskinsor devastated by Braves . Although currently considered the most glaring of all Indian team names, Redskins actually predates its New World usage by some twenty-five centuries or so.
DC just shelled out a fortune for a new MCI stadium downtown, and a new Redskins stadium, and every idiotic newsman and woman is required to nod knowingly when the sports guy makes some obscure reference to some impenetrable football play, and anyone like me who finds the entire exercise faintly ridiculous is regarded as unpatriotic and unmanly.
The top national story at the Washington Post is the crash of a stealth fighter at an airshow (the first Redskins game at the new stadium dominates the front page), and that accident and two others involving military aircraft are the lead at USA Today . At the New York Times the lead is the U.S.'s possible shift to endorsing a land mine ban, while at the Los Angeles Times , it's a new study about the impact of immigration on the California economy and what to do about it--on a front page dominated by a backstage picture and the accompanying headline "'3rd Rock,' 'Seinfeld' Stars Win Emmys."
Are tribal team names (such as Braves, Redskins, Seminoles , etc.) truly demeaning to red Americans?
Daniel Snyder, another new money tyro, just bought the city's most precious institution, the Washington Redskins.
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