Wait so WaPo polled natives by phone? Keep in mind 60% of Navajo Nation doesn't have a phone line at home.https://twitter.com/postpolls/status/733282262570160129 …
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I'm still like huh Washington Post decided to tell people how not racist this incredibly racist team name is
We'd be wrong to solely understand the WaPo Washington team name poll/story as a solitary act. There's a history that got us here.
You can't separate the Washington team name from Columbus's arrival to the Americas. Straight monster. No chill.
Bc of enslavement, rape, and murder from Columbus and his kin, the island he landed on lost nearly all its inhabitants in a matter of years.
And it wasn't just its people. What we call Haiti was once a lush place. Columbus started a campaign of defrosting forest and taking land.
This practice, started by Columbus, was continued throughout the Americas. We're talking about genocide. Tens of millions of people.
We don't even know whether it was 10 million or 200 million indigenous people who were wiped out: an indication of how horrendous this was.
Indigenous lives were so dispensable they weren't even counted. That's important to remember when we think about the Washington team name.
There was a systemic destruction of entire tribal nations. ALL THIS LAND remains occupied. Also important when thinking about the name.
Every single part of US history relies on tribal destruction in exchange for... What? Do you even know?
When did natives get citizenship in the US? Oh you don't already know? Use google to learn something today.
When were all natives guaranteed the right to vote? 1972. And you wanna debate if the Washington team name is offensive today? Nah.
"We're gonna destroy land. Pollute water. Pollute air. Feed your kids to dogs. Rape women. Kill men. Still call you a slur 500 years later."
"And as soon as you gain a lil ground to call us on it, we're gonna do a poll as if to suspend how deeply racist the team name is, k?"
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