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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsStill think "redskin" isn't a racial slur?
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Still think "redskin" isn't a racial slur? (Original Post)
KamaAina
Jun 2014
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Submariner
(12,497 posts)1. You're imagining things
because Chief Justice Roberts stated that racism was over just in the last year.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)2. Amazing that it was printed...
What kind of right-wing rag printed this?
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)3. It appears to be the paper of record in Gallup, NM
the Teabagger, er, I mean Independent.
Jenoch
(7,720 posts)4. The only positive thing about printing that letter is that it exposes the writer to be a racist
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)6. Yeah, the editors probably thought it was well-written, thoughtful...
and reasoned.
hlthe2b
(102,116 posts)5. Sadly that attitude is pervasive in the Dakotas re: Lakota Sioux
I honestly am surprised to see that crap in NM--targeted at Navajo, but I guess I shouldn't be. Most of the country has never and perhaps will never interact with Native Americans of any tribe--unless at some Northeastern gambling casino. I think if they did, they would be both up in arms at this blatant racism--and the fact that "redskin" is still defended in this day and age.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)7. That amazesme too..."redskin" is indefensible...
And yet it remains, and probably won't change for quite some time still.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)9. Or at some Californian or Midwestern gambling casino.
There are so many of them out here that even Vegas is starting to feel the pinch, and Reno is really suffering.
madinmaryland
(64,931 posts)8. He sounds like a Little Big BUTTHEAD.