The PC Crowd Can Just Kiss My Lily-White Derrière

Finally we hear about some sanity creeping back into an insane world being dominated by hypersensitive, politically correct (PC) "activists."

What am I talking about?

Let me explain…

Back in 1992, when the Atlanta Braves baseball team finally decided to begin what has turned out to be a thirteen-year domination of the National League Western division of Major League Baseball, my ex-wife and I wandered down to the old Atlanta Stadium with $120 in our pockets, hoping to buy two playoff tickets from a ticket “scalper.”

I didn’t manage to buy any tickets because the prices were higher than my $60 per seat budget, but what I did manage to witness (instead of a baseball game) was a protest being staged by a pitiful little band of Indians…er, excuse me, make that “Native Americans.”

What issue were these “Native Americans” Protesting?

They waited until Atlanta finally made the playoffs to start publicly protesting the use by the Atlanta MLB team of the name “Braves.”

MY HEART WAS BREAKING, AS MY HEAD EXPLODED AT THEIR STUPIDITY!

The sad thing was, these ‘Native Americans” were all decked out in their “Native American” attire—feathers and moccasins and face paint—they looked like extras in a 1950’s “Cowboy and Indian” movie.

These morons had waited for 25 years while the Braves languished in the cellar of Major League Baseball (something well worth protesting,) they watched silently while the Braves had a fake Indian Teepee erected out in the left field bleachers, and they were silent while the Braves had a caricature of an Indian as a mascot, “Chief Knockahoma,” who greeted kids in the Teepee and did a little dance every time the home team hit a home run.

Only when the national media arrived at Atlanta Fulton County Stadium did they decide to get up the energy to protest the Braves’ use of a term relating to “Native Americans.”

What about the term “ticket scalpers.” Where is their outrage over that obvious negative “Native American” reference, Kemosabe?

In the end, no one really paid any serious attention to the protesters, and the Braves still call themselves the Braves as of today.

I thought that the sensitivity to “Native American” sports team refrain had died down a little, and then it came to my attention that the NCAA is having a meeting next week about the “appropriateness” of naming college sports teams using “Native American” references.

I did a little checking and guess what?

The Seminole Indian Tribe in Florida has come out with a statement supporting Florida State’s use of their tribe’s name for their sports teams.

"Miami--The Seminole Tribe of Florida said it still backs Florida State University's use of the Seminoles nickname, just a week before the NCAA meets on the appropriateness of American Indian nicknames.

At it's regular Friday meeting, the Tribal Council voted unanimously on a resolution in support of Florida State's nickname, the first time the Tribe has taken an official public step to show support for the Tallahassee school's mascot.

"The resolution is a formal document that puts into black and white the sentiment of the Tribe, because we feel that it is an honor and a reflection of the university to represent the spirit of the Seminole Tribe of Florida," said Max Osceola, a Tribal councilman."

It’s about time some minority group saw the light and didn’t let the PC crowd of “lily-white assholes with nothing better to do” tell them what they should think and do.

The use of Native American names does not automatically fall into the category of exploitation or denigration. It is all in the way the terms are used. A stumbling, drunken, cigar-store Indian caricature could be considered insulting, but the way Florida State and other modern college teams use their “Native American” references is polite and reverent.

I hope the NCAA keeps their noses out of this issue and lets the individual schools decide their own fate. If they don’t, the next thing you know a bunch of ancient Romans will be running around USC protesting their use of the name “Trojans” (or maybe the condom manufacturer will have something to say on that one.)

Maybe I’ll form a PC group and start running around holding news conferences and demanding that no one name their basketball team “The stumbling, lead footed, stupid-assed, lazy white boys that can’t jump Crackers.”

Then again, maybe not…