[Dan-A]

Donna, The short answer is ignorance. They just don’t see it as a slur, because to them, an ‘Indian’ is an extinct creature of the 1800’s Western frontier. They don’t make the connection with today’s Native American population. The Cleveland Indians baseball team has an absurd caricature of your people as a logo. Try asking the naysayers if they’d be ok with a similar picture of a grinning black with an afro, for a team named ‘Niggers’, and see if that gives them pause. No one would stand for that, but the Native American community hasn’t had such eloquent and vocal proponents as Martin Luther King Jr. or Malcom X to get the point across. There are organizations working to end use of disparaging mascots in sports; do a search on the web, and consider getting involved yourself. Until the big-money organizations like the NFL are embarassed or pressured into changing, the going will be slow.

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Name : Dan-A, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Baptist, Age : 29, City : St. Louis, State : MO, Country : United States, Education level : 2 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, 

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