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[quote=Anonymous]I'm very passionate about racial issues.  Example of where I fall on the spectrum: I think Trayvon Martin was profiled and murdered.  I think many of us like to pretend we are a post racial society and we are not yet, by a long shot.

I see the point people make about Columbus Day being a day that, if you think about it, memorializes mass genocide.  I don't feel that Columbus Day should be changed but I understand why some people feel that way.  I think we'd do well to remember, while we celebrate the chain of events that led to those of us today leading a good life here, that our good life was really stolen from natives and built in large part by slaves.

And yet I just can't get worked up about this team name.  I don't care about football, at all.  And I just don't feel offended by "Redskins".  Maybe because I see it as a positive association?  That implies it's praising the warrior-like abilities of the Native Americans in centuries past?

I realize this makes me a hypocrite.  I just can't feel the outrage.  I do care about what happened to the Native Americans in this country - My children have Native American blood.  But I'm not feeling it.

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