Flawk Research Paper

In a majority of cases, this view is even endorsed by the tribes themselves (Morrison). They argue that the restriction and ultimate elimination of the Native American mascot would also abolish the nation’s historic view of this cultural entity as characters of strength, determination, boldness, resourcefulness and courage. They contend that these same positive attributes are not only required by athletes, but are held expectations of the sporting community. The pursuant argument entails that there is an inherent oddity in the suggestion that naming a team after an Indian tribe is a calculated insult.

The Cleveland Indians decided they are going to get rid of Chief Wahoo logo next year (Waldstein, 2018). Many Native Americans are happy, while others are not bothered with the decision. It may be a win for Native Americans for baseball, but for football not so much. Native Americans have questioned the use of the name Washington Redskins since the 1960’s. Yet, it didn’t receive national attention until the 1990’s. There have been many cases in which the Redskins logo was fought to remove the trademark owned by the Pro-Football Inc. In one landmark case that stood out to me was Pro-Football Inc vs Harjo.

Nowadays we do not see the Indians or Redskins as a negative way of describing a race or culture. We see them as professional teams that play hard and get our spirits up. Out of all teams, I would say that the Redskins is probably the most racist of all names because of the term it was used years ago. I would change the name to something more honorable towards Native Americans. Braves is actually more honorable than Redskins because they are identifying Native Americans as Brave rather than a negative stereotype of a name. The team name, Redskins, has actually received backlash for many years because it was seen as insulting and offensive to people of Native American culture. After many polls of whether to keep the name or not, 83 percent of people chose to keep the name as it was not used as racial slur. At this point, the team names are not meant as a racial slur so there shouldn't be any

The Cleveland Indians primary logo from 1951 to 2013, referred to as Chief Wahoo, is a cartoon representation of a stereotypical Native American face. It depicts a character with bright red skin, a large round nose, and wide toothsome grin. Furthermore, the character is adorned with single feather on the back of his head. In the same way the racial caricatures of African-Americans in the Jim Crow era were used to justify and promote racist and discriminatory behavior, Chief Wahoo seeks to serve a similar purpose. In this paper, I will argue that, yes, the old primarily logo of the Cleveland Indians counts as racist under Blum’s Concept of racism in that, its caricature-like depiction of Native Americans reflects an attitude that seeks to demean

The franchise has decided to appeal this ruling by the court. The team attorney for the Washington Redskins franchise claims that, “We are convinced that we will win because the facts and the law are on the side of our franchise that has proudly used the name Redskins for more than 80 years” (Bruce Allen 2015). The team even plans to take this process to the Supreme Court. While the name may come off as a derogatory term, it will be very hard for the native americans to win again due to longevity. Not only this, but throughout history, the native americans have always been on the losing

The Washington Redskins are a professional American football team that is based out of Washington area and currently play at FedEx Field in Maryland. In 1932, the name Boston Braves emerged when the football program began to arise. The following year, the name the Boston Redskins replaced the original name of the Boston Braves. In 1937, the team changed locations to Washington, thus making their current team name the Washington Redskins. Unfortunately, a problem arose around the 1990’s when the Native American people began to feel “disrespected”. The reason the Native American people have such hatred for the team is due to the fact that it portrays and offends the Natives skin color with the name, “Redskin.” The Washington Redskins debate plays a significant role in professional sports team history due to the demoralization amongst Native American Society. Factors that contribute to this debate include, but are not limited to; religion, economics, and politics.

The year is 1991.  The Atlanta Braves had just completed their first trip to the Fall Classic in four decades, and the Washington Redskins were undefeated, well on their way to their third Super Bowl title.  All across the eastern seaboard, sports fans were tasting success - while American Indians were in an uproar.  This year witnessed the peak of the protests over the use of mascots with American Indian themes.  With two of the major professional sports teams in question making front-page news across the country, many of us heard American Indians' complaints for the first time.  Suddenly, thanks to the cries of thousands of demonstrators, the names of many Americans' favorite teams had become synonymous with "nigger."

Imagine thousands of people mocking your culture everyday. Well that is what happens to the Native American population. Sports teams falsely portray what Native Americans act and look like, fans mock and shame the culture and unknowingly scream racial slurs toward them. This is why Indian mascots should not be banned. ‘‘Redskin’ Is Officially a Dictionary-Defined Racial Slur—in all cases.”

“To remember who you are, you will need to forget what society has tried to teach you to be...culture matters. Be proud.” These words from an unknown Native American about one major subject: Native American culture. The beliefs of Native culture have been with Native people for as long as they have lived. They believe in sacred acts that have supported and healed Natives and better their heritage. Then Whites began to make American Indian mascots to “honor” Natives. They have had a purpose to honor Natives, but have recently shown a bias towards Natives. Over the past 30 years, there has been a national argument between non-natives and Natives as to whether school and professional sports teams should use Native American imagery as their mascots,

     Many people do not consider themselves supporting Native American mascots that depict them in a bad manner. But when people walk around with a Atlanta Braves shirt on with a Indian with a tomahawk in his hand, it is degrading to the Indians. It is stereotyping them. School mascots and Sports team’s mascots are named after groups of people for no reason known. Notre Dame was founded by Irish Catholics, but their sports team was named the Fighting Irish. The name Fighting Irish has nothing to do with the Irish Catholics, it depicts them in a wrong way.(Price, 3). Team names can be changed to similar names that do not depict certain groups of people. Like the Redskins can be called the Red Hawks or the

Roppolo insists, “The real problem with the kind of dysconscous, symbolic, abstract racism that is perpetuated today by sports mascots… is that it enables very real, very concrete, and very conscious acts of violent racism that American Indian people still face in this country and this hemisphere on a daily basis”(228). This demonstrates how the mascot does have a detrimental impact towards Native Americans. People who are subjected to seeing Native Americans through these mascots already have fallacious perceptions of what Native Americans behave like. Due to this, people will start to react accordingly to how they feel the Native Americans are supposed to act due to the distorted stereotypes that are presented to the public. People do not even realize that they are acting this way towards Native Americans, because Roppolo claims that Americans have gotten used to being racist towards Native Americans for so long that it is now invisible, aka dysconscious racism(226). People do not realize that it is ingrained in them, so when they come into contact with a Native American they may perceive the situation different than what actually happened. Roppolo justified this by going on to add, “One young man had his brother nearly beaten to death - his skull cracked open, not just cracked - when several bouncers at a local nightclub had to control his ‘rowdy’

In the recent years the media has sparked a controversy weather names such as the “Redskins” should be changed and this debate still rages on because there is no clear cut answer. I am on the side that Native American mascots should not be changed. First, Native American people see this as a chance for dialogue and conflict resolution. Next, This gives people to have an insight on Native American culture. Finally, many Native Americans feel that the names are not offensive.

Moses was an incredibly important figure through both a spiritual and a historical lens. He led a massive migration – that of the entire Hebrew nation – to a new land. This brought about the conquering of many smaller civilizations, as well as the spread of Egyptian influence and the development of a unique Jewish culture. As prominent as Moses is in the course of world history, he is even more prominent in the area of spirituality. For a deeper understanding of Moses’ importance, it would be wise to examine his early life, mid-life, and the end of his life.

Over the year’s man and woman conflict have been a normal part of life. Where there are relationships there will be conflict. Researcher Anna Snyder says “A critical component of successful male-female relationships is the ability of the couples to handle conflict” (Snyder 10). Resolving conflict, or not can be vital for the fifty-fifty survival rate of marriages. In the two plays, Trifles by Susan Glaspell, and Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller. Both actors have a great background of literature, Glaspell an American Pulitzer Prize-winner, playwright, novelist, and Arthur Miller who also was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Withal plays can relate in ways to different gender conflicts, and the problems that takes place in everyday relationships. Men and women may face different demands of resolving these conflicts. Men tend to handle things in a more aggressive way, as to woman being the calm ones. Throughout these two plays they may differ.

Historically, Native Americans are the weakest minority economically and politically in the United States. Unlike African-Americans or Hispanic-Americans, the indigenous-American population has received very little political power and even less economic status than they had in the 1950’s. The use of the image of Native Americans, tribal names and images, though romanticized as great chiefs and warriors in the sports arena, are none-the-less being exploited to the great monetary gain of the franchisee but not to the financial or psychological reward of the people whom