Aaaaaaaaaaand Bye Bye Chief Wahoo (Picture Screams a 1000 Words Dept.)

[shanemcg]

48. Apples and Oranges

Surely you're not comparing someone who paints his face like the Cleveland team with a rabid KKKer, are ya? Because that would be highly illogical and a fallacy.

Yes, it seems like basic math to me. 99% is everyone that is not a 1%er. I think that there are some things (like economic fairness and being able to live a decent life) that take precedence over anything else. You keep chopping off 5% here and 8% there and before long you have 35%, not 99%. And anything less than 99% is going to lose this struggle. Edited to add: In my FIRST post I said that I believe that is why divisive things like this always manage to burst into the news constantly, just to accomplish this effect.

I can't help but wonder, why all the passion about "racist sports mascots"? Have you ever seen a reservation or seen all the abuse and discrimination Native Americans experience? I'd like to see Native Americans polled. Which affects you worse, discrimination and exclusion from American Life or sports mascots like The Braves, The Indians, or The Redskins?

I'm not an Indian but I have known many over the years and while we did talk about the former quite a bit, their outrage over sports mascots never came out.

I see this stuff as something to be indignant about and wave the racism flag, but not have to actually do any heavy lifting, ie actually IMPROVE THE LIVES of any Native Americans.