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Liberals Protest Native American High School Redskins Team
Posted By Daniel Greenfield On October 28, 2014 @ 1:38 pm In The Point | 3 Comments
This is stupid even by PC police standards. And that’s saying something. The anti-Redskins campaign largely relies on lefty activists who don’t particularly represent any tribe and one casino bigwig who is hated by his own tribe.
That makes this Washington Post story ridiculously uncomfortable as its writer tries to find ways to explain why the Navajo are too stupid to know why they should be offended by the name Redskins, when he’s offended by it.
None of that mattered to the Red Mesa Redskins as they marched onto the field for their game against the Lobos of Many Farms High School. It was homecoming, and the players knew they needed to keep winning if they wanted to make their first appearance in the state playoffs in five years.
Red Mesa students, parents and alumni stamped the bleachers, clutching signs that read “Fear the Spear” and “Redskin Nation.”
One of the country’s most prominent anti-Redskins activists, Amanda Blackhorse, is the lead plaintiff in a legal case that threatens the Washington Redskins’ trademark protection. Blackhorse is a Navajo and lives about an hour’s drive from Red Mesa.
But most in the Red Mesa community dismiss Blackhorse’s cause, or barely know who she is.
Because her prominence is a myth invented by the media. She’s just a lefty activist with an agenda who is being used by the left to work this side of the street.
Blackhorse, who was organizing a protest of the name at the game, said she called a Red Mesa school official and urged him not to let his students be used as props by Washington’s team. “I told him they’d be mocked and treated as tokens and pawns,” Blackhorse said.
But the school participated anyway, because administrators thought the disadvantaged students would appreciate the opportunity to attend an NFL game.
“We just let [Blackhorse] talk,” said Al Begay, Red Mesa’s athletic director, sitting in his office. “This protest feels like it’s coming from one person.”
Pretty much. And Blackhorse knows a lot about being a token and a pawn.
At the game, some Red Mesa students said they were taunted by protesters for wearing free Washington Redskins hats and T-shirts.
In one video posted on her Facebook page, Blackhorse stood outside the football stadium slamming Red Mesa’s administrators.
“We want to let our children know who are being used today,” she said, “that we are here for them. We are not going to disparage them . . . because they don’t know any better. The adults in that school should know better, and they are not informed of this issue — and shame on them for that,” Blackhorse told a large group of supporters, some holding signs with the Redskins logo and the words “Game Over.”
It’s Game Over… but not for the Redskins.
A 2004 Annenberg Public Policy Center poll that found nine out of 10 Native Americans were not offended by the Redskins name. But Blackhorse and others note that the survey is 10 years old and question its methodology. And they argue that if any Native Americans are offended by the name, it should be changed.
So if one motivated protester with an agenda is offended by something it should be changed? That should be fun.
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