Naming

Monday September 12, 2005 - 12:35PM EDT

Ok, new week. Last week I made some progress. This week I will make more. I'll create my daily list here at work today, during lunch or when I have down time...ha. Book I had on hold is in, I'll pick that up today after work.

I was just thinking about how we let it go for so long the naming of sports teams after Native Americans. Aside from the "Fighting Irish" we don't name any other teams after a group of people. It is just a weird anomaly that everyone has taken as normal, even some native americans themselves. The word redskins doesn't come from the color of their skin as some might think, it comes from the term used in colonial days to desscribed bringing back the bloody scalp of a Native American or "injun". You used to be able to get money for how many "redskins" you could bring back. That is disturbingly vicious to be such a common word. Even then word nigger which is seen as much more taboo in many cases was just a misunderstanding of the spanish/portuguese word for black (negro). Everyone has gotten so used to it. It is something to think about only because it is so common. It makes me completely ignore certain rules and standards people have just for the sake of standards. I think, how can any society take all of its "holy" structure so seriously when such blatant double standards exist. If you take this issue as a tradition type thing you can let it slide, it is normal, it is ok (I have my own opinions on tradition). But if you try to apply some kind of universal reasoning to it you have a problem. Because either your reasoining is messed up and you can't use it for all the other things you want to or this issue is messed up and you can't call it normal or ok. Anyway, time for lunch.