Daniel · 8 answers · 4y

The football team "Washington Redskins" will change their name and their logo. Is that good and neccesary?

Interesting enough there are no native Americans with red skin and the term has had only a reference to those tribes who used to wear deep red makeup? Whatever. The american government put a law in place that provided a bounty for each killed member of a tribe. As a proof you needed to show the scalp of the dead. The habit of cutting off the skin with hair off of people was an invention by western conquerers who came to kill the natives and made a business out of genocide. From my perspective it should be a simple history lesson that the US started like any other country by killing the natives when they came as conquerers. But we would need to hang Betsy DeVos and others before this can happen. The often mentioned US American "Greatness" based on freedom, democracy and prosperity is delusional as long as you sugar coat the genocide that still is happening.

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