Washington DC

[DangerGirl]

The name won't be changed, just the logo.

[voidexistensia]

Since I have a lot of respect for our Native Americans I'm kind of conflicted on this issue. On one hand the fight over the name seems silly. But then again to some this name Redskin could be seen as derogatory. And a war over names and labels almost never ends well.

But when I think of a name that captures what Washington seems to symbolize now? How about Washington Corporate Raiders?

[DangerGirl]

And then there's this bit of idiocy.

[kham]

Saw that retarded stupidity a few days ago.....

[bbjohn]

And then there's this bit of idiocy.

I wonder if I should tell this guy that the Indian Wars were hardly one-sided affairs. The fact is, tribes like the Apaches more than gave the U.S. Army a tough fight. The tribes lost out by attrition, and the fact than many more Native Americans were killed by the white man's diseases than were killed by bullets. In fact, even before the Pilgrims arrived on the East Coast, most of the tribes there had been devastated by disease. Their immune systems didn't know how to handle these new germs and viruses the Europeans brought with them.

To name weapons after Native American tribes is to recognize them for the great warriors they were. Consider the contributions Native Americans have made and continue to make to the U.S. Armed Forces. I found it fascinating that, if the rate of enlistment during World War II for the general population had been the same as the rate of enlistment for Native Americans, there would have been no need for the draft (anyone ever hear of the Navajo Code Talkers?).

Methinks this fellow needs to learn something of the real history of the West and pay less attention to the history taught by the limousine liberals. Their version is just as distorted as the old movie Westerns, and that makes it just as dangerous.

-Big Bad John

[kham]

Waste of time
Know what their stock answer is? And always is, in their retard minds what passes for ''discussion''

SHUT UP, they explained

retards, all of them

[voidexistensia]

To name weapons after Native American tribes is to recognize them for the great warriors they were. Consider the contributions Native Americans have made and continue to make to the U.S. Armed Forces. I found it fascinating that, if the rate of enlistment during World War II for the general population had been the same as the rate of enlistment for Native Americans, there would have been no need for the draft (anyone ever hear of the Navajo Code Talkers?).

Indeed BB John. And we owe a great deal to their service.

[kham]

Not to mention, US Army helos have had names like this for, oh, maybe 60 years??
Meh

[Mynock]

I wonder if I should tell this guy that the Indian Wars were hardly one-sided affairs.

The Plains Indians (Comanche, Sioux, Cherokee to name a few) were flat out brutal. They were also migratory in nature and ranged over thousands of miles following their food supply and comfortable climate. That was usually what caused the problem. Some pioneer family stops their wagon on a seemingly unoccupied chunk of prairie and decides it's a good place to set up shop. Six months later they've got a house built, fields tilled, shits all going nice, they haven't seen a single soul, and then over the hill comes a bunch of screaming spear waving psychopaths on horseback covered in warpaint that burn it down kill the men and take the women and children for slaves......I'm not partial to trespassers either but I at least politely ask them to leave before I start shooting them.

[MadMax359]

I wonder if I should tell this guy that the Indian Wars were hardly one-sided affairs.

The Plains Indians (Comanche, Sioux, Cherokee to name a few) were flat out brutal. They were also migratory in nature and ranged over thousands of miles following their food supply and comfortable climate. That was usually what caused the problem. Some pioneer family stops their wagon on a seemingly unoccupied chunk of prairie and decides it's a good place to set up shop. Six months later they've got a house built, fields tilled, shits all going nice, they haven't seen a single soul, and then over the hill comes a bunch of screaming spear waving psychopaths on horseback covered in warpaint that burn it down kill the men and take the women and children for slaves......I'm not partial to trespassers either but I at least politely ask them to leave before I start shooting them.

hmmm, your first problem comes when you call the Cherokee one of the Plains tribes; while it's true that many Cherokee now live in Oklahoma, that only came after the Trail of Tears forced march from their settled, agricultural homes in the western Carolinas/northern Georgia--- an episode that came in disregard of US law after the Cherokee had followed all the legal niceties and WON a Supreme Court ruling that upheld the Treaty that had guaranteed them their land; but don't take my word for it, look it up

as for the fantasy scenario of your pioneer family... dude, you've been watching too many old movies or something