Native American Double Standards

November 13, 2006 by Anil P.
Filed under Travel

November is Native American Heritage Month.

Wonder if I could name my football team the “Blackskins” or the “Whities” if it meant I could get home-field advantage. Names like “Redskins” are just as offensive as calling a team “Yellowskins” and making the mascot a Chinaman.

UND is among a handful of schools with American Indian nicknames and logos that the NCAA considers hostile and abusive. Those schools are barred from holding postseason tournaments, or from using their nicknames during road playoff games.
Stenehjem, in asking for the injunction, said the ban might cost UND (9-1, 7-1 North Central Conference) home field advantage in this year’s NCAA Division II football playoffs.
Full story here.

We wouldn’t (and don’t) do this to the other ethnic groups living in the United States and we shouldn’t do this to Native Americans.

Makes me wonder why this is acceptable at all