Outstanding reference to Sherman Alexie, E.

Washington Redskins is a no-brainer, if we are in a position of really considering offensive nicknames. For decades the joke was accepted and shrugged off by a coarse American ethos that worked fine for the most part BUT was to its own extent unconsciously/boldly idiotic and flip. __ The term "redskins" is and has always been intended in a derogatory way. May as well use Washington Injuns, Washington Kikes, Washington Krauts, Limeys, Gooks, Japs, Wops, Beaners or Niggers.

I'm an Indians fan. I like the nickname, the Tribe. Being of fractional Creek- Cherokee blood and legitimately adopted into the Lenape Nation, I dig the reference and the connectivity, and have clan affiliation (not klan!) totems stitched to my Cleveland Indians ball cap. It's all in good fun (and spirit). __ I don't agree with AIM's assertion that "Indians" is a derogatory nickname. It's a misnomer from day one, but there's no accounting for stupidity. "American Indian" is the accepted term. Not an insult. BUT there is NO question that Chief Wahoo is a derogatory "little black Sambo", big-eyed Pickaninny, drunken Rez Injun caricature meant as a casual and flippant joke mascot. They COULD easily sport and warrior up Chief Wahoo, pay some due respects, while keeping it lighthearted and even kinda cool ...and all would maybe be illin in the hood. Who knows, we could evolve that well as a species. But more likely the "C" will continue to make more appearances and slowly Chief Wahoo will phase out. OR little more will happen and the argument will continue to dumb us down.

Mostly I think we spend far too much time arguing absurd ideas in this country that was once, oh back in the early 19th Century (and earlier), believed by some brilliant minds to be the ground zero of burgeoning enlightenment for the coming decades. Seems oh bout the end of WWII a certain faction or factions or whatever went underground and started infiltrating our hearts and minds and now we live in the proscribed and calculated dumb-down rusting us at our fragmented core. Divide and conquer. History repeats itself. Aw well. TICK TICK goes the tilt & the rise on the cosmic fulcrum. We could evolve.