From: "Robert Seeberger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Raceism Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 18:07:08 -0500
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jan Coffey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 8:21 PM Subject: Raceism
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BTW, how many Native Americans have you polled on this subject? Because I know for sure you never asked me. (Look at a pic of me on Steves page) Or do only purebred people count?
A friend I've been discussing this with pointed me at this link:
This article is from 8/7/2003
http://www.indiancountry.com/?43
"In a survey by Indian Country Today, 81 percent of respondents indicated use of American Indian names, symbols and mascots are predominantly offensive and deeply disparaging to Native Americans."
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And this one, from yesterday: (Julia's point is addressed in the third paragraph)
http://www.indiancountry.com/?1065123282
Opinion favors Redskins football logo
WASHINGTON - A district court judgment has reinstated the trademark protections of the Washington Redskins football franchise.
The Oct. 1 summary judgment overrules a unanimous 1999 decision of the federal Trial Trademark and Appeal Board that found the team name and logo disparaging to Native Americans. Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, stated that the board had relied on linguistic and survey evidence only for its findings of fact as to disparagement. She characterized the findings as "very limited," and ruled them inadequate to cancel the trademark protections of the team�s name, logo and related properties.
Kollar-Kotelly also found that too much time has passed to prove the trademarks were disparaging in 1967, when they were registered as trademarks.
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This is from the end of the second article:
Indian Country Today considers the use of sports names, symbols, mascots and logos depicting American Indians by non-Indian teams and organizations as being offensive. Its policy states: "� the name �Redskins� is a derogatory term that for at least 300 years has been used to insult, ridicule, deride, and generally cast prejudice and hate upon American Indian peoples. The term has been used and continues to be used as a racial epithet."
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...so there could be a possibility that the survey results are biased. Jon
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