However, a younger group of Native Americans has refilled and a ruling is expected fairly soon.

I’m quite sure you meant “refiled”. I do hope you did, however, mean “refilled” as in ammunition and that “ruling” refers to an awesome, gory Django Unchained-style shootout that we can expect to happen in the near future.

I don’t see the problem with the redskin name there, but then again I am not native-american-indian although we share the same phenotype there.

To me it sounds like Black Panther, is that racist?

It was easier when I was a kid, I didn’t had to care about those things, all I knew was that the little plastic soldiers where always green, the cowboys were always blue and the indians were always red, and I had to find one in a horse to be Custer to re-enact the Battle of Little BigHorn aka Custer’s Last Stand as imagined by an 6 years boy, meaning Custer was not the incompetent idiot that attacked a superior force got boxed in and massacred but the brave soldier that got himself in a difficult position and fought to his last breadth out of courage.

One thing that I always liked about the native American-Indian stereotype was how you just got what you saw in someone and named it, there was something innocent and honest about that was appealing, there was no euphemisms, no hiding behind invisible walls you had to accept things like they were, that mean you had at some point in life to accept what you were and not what you thought you were or something like that and I wonder if this redskin name affair is not the white culture destroying the beautiful American Indian one, playing the same little word games as the white people.

Sometimes I resent growing up in all of this world full of “don’ts”.

People where I live were throwing garbage in my garden I know why, they told me to my face that I am not welcome because I not one of them, then when I starting composting whatever organic matter they threw in my garden and started growing food with it they stopped, because after all they were giving me free raw material (LoL), then they started throwing non organic trash, which I promptly recycled, the plastic bags became rope, which I made a hammock, ceiling plant hangers and much more, the metals I melted and created some replicas of old street lamps posts, all those nails, cans are really something now (LoL), but it is getting hard where before those people were happy to give me their trash, now they go all the way to not let any on the streets so I don’t collect it anymore, silly people.

I think what I was thinking is why the American Indians there are not turning that trashy name into something else, something good and that everyone could be proud of, get the trademark revoked by all means not because it is offensive but because you want to do something good with it, now that would be greater than anything else, it means whatever others do to hurt you you can make it work in your favor, it means that even if life only gives you shit, you will make a treasure out of it.

on a scale of countries, America is right up there with the best of them for racist attitudes, but MOST people do not consider this term derogatory at all, it is after all the name of a football team, no a comment on a ‘race’ of people.

to be racist the term needs to be directed at that group of people, but the redskins football team is not ‘that group’, again its the name of a team, and is not used in that context as a racist slur.

the majority of native Americans understand this, and it is amusing that once again, TD is applauding trademark for censorship.

it is not a derogatory term if used to describe a football team, the intent is not to denigrate a race of people, the term is used to describe a football team.

The same applies to the New Zealand ALL BLACKS for example, it describes a football team, it is not a ‘slur on all people with black skin’.

What is the real shame Timbo, is you cannot seem to tell the difference !!!

are you going to go after Eskimo pie’s next ? or “black cat lollies” or “red skin candy bars” ?? what about “white sox softball team?

a racist slue is a ‘term used to denigrate a specific ethnic group, the term “redskin” is well know to be a name of a football team, and not a term to denigrate a specific ethnic group.

Trademark should not be used for censorship, political correctness run wild.

for example, as a lot have pointed out here, the term “redskins” is commonly known to refer to a football team, and not known to be a slur on an ethnic group, but on the other hand everyone knows what “Nigga” means !!!

Do you notice the difference ???

Wow 37% of A.I. Thinks it might be offensive ?? 51% of USA considers that everythink that does not have Christianity in its name to be offensive . 90% of them consider Congress to be offensive . Timothy your trollish additude telks me you are selfrighteus dick like vegans , fruiterian , Jehova whitness or multitude of people that annoy us normal people with not thinking past what thier gut feeling is tellibg them . In short you are as bad as people that use the Redskin term to give offense…