I usually don't speak up on this stuff ... but polls are irrelevant.
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And it's not about it being offensive. It's about ignorance.
When I was a kid I thought the name was cool. When I learned it was basically a bounty I almost threw up.
It's like a team name that is something like the Atlanta Lynchers being a thing. It's not close. And it's not defensible.
The reason I am speaking up is that in our country we have erased the actual history. Mount Rushmore is shown as a giant edifice in elementary schools, when it's actually the ugly tiny end of a beautiful mountain that was a native heritage site dedicated to passed elders.
Thing is? I learned that LAST WEEK. It evaded me my whole life because our school system erased it.
Erasing history to comply with our entitled comfort is weak.
I'm not offended by the name. I'm offended by American willingness to erase the history of others and profit off of it while continuing the erasure indoctrination at every level of public schooling.
It makes us weak. We don't challenge our elders or question their behavior. I am not a fan of weakness, not a fan of lacking accountability, and not a fan of glorifying horrors, and in this case it was all 3.
When I was a kid I thought the name was cool. When I learned it was basically a bounty I almost threw up.
It's like a team name that is something like the Atlanta Lynchers being a thing. It's not close. And it's not defensible.
The reason I am speaking up is that in our country we have erased the actual history. Mount Rushmore is shown as a giant edifice in elementary schools, when it's actually the ugly tiny end of a beautiful mountain that was a native heritage site dedicated to passed elders.
Thing is? I learned that LAST WEEK. It evaded me my whole life because our school system erased it.
Erasing history to comply with our entitled comfort is weak.
I'm not offended by the name. I'm offended by American willingness to erase the history of others and profit off of it while continuing the erasure indoctrination at every level of public schooling.
It makes us weak. We don't challenge our elders or question their behavior. I am not a fan of weakness, not a fan of lacking accountability, and not a fan of glorifying horrors, and in this case it was all 3.
