it's also Columbus Day a perfect day to consider
changing the name to the west Washington Redskins you catch last night's game
the the Redskins versus the Dallas Cowboys I saw piece a bit as I was
flying back from
from where was I Albany New York
test anyhow the NBC sports commentator Bob Costas this
you ease while most respected commentators in america
right the Bobcats has been around a long time gave his take on this growing
controversy over the
the name the team name the Washington Redskins
you start off by talking about the differences between the term Redskins
and other ways that we refer to Native Americans like
you know warriors are chief Sir Braves and he said that objections to names
like braids Chiefs warriors
and the like strike many offices political correctness run amok
these nicknames on a rather than the main many went on to say
but think for a moment about the term Redskins
and Howard truly differs from all the others ask yourself what they call it
would be if it was directed toward african-americans
or hispanics or asians remembers many other ethnic groups
the
these comments by Bob Costas com
the just a couple a days after President Obama
a himself weighed in on the issue when he was talking with The Associated Press
President Obama said the
piano to the AP reporter I don't know whether our attachment to a particular
name should override the real legitimate concerns that people have about these
things he also said that he would quote
think about changing and quote the name considering that offends quote
a sizeable group people unquote I mean the fact the matter is 180 Americans may
refer to themselves as Braves her chief Sir warriors they've never once refer to
themselves as Redskins
it's a derogatory and racist term
that began probably with the discovery the Americas
in 1492 Columbus was on this search for gold around the world
any land on this island hispaniola
which today is the bit its
you know happy allen's haiti in half its the Dominican Republic and widened by
much gold there
he did find something that he thought
was as good as gold and that was
people and it was those indigenous people those
Redskins the Columbus that would make great
Slade's when he hit you know when he came across these people these
additions people has been all your
the the Redskins erodes the Spanish monarch about him sane
they are well built with good bodies and handsome features they do not bear arms
in
do not know %ah and and do not know them
arms right for I showed them a sword they talk about the edge in cut
themselves out of ignorance
and no iron their spears are made of Cain it would make fine servants
with fifty mad we could subjugate the all and make them do whatever we want
here there are so many of these slaves
although they're living things they are as good as gold
now you know over the years we've forgotten about the horrors
work long distance that we've got this warm and fuzzy story this
Bowl Explorer right the reality is quite different
Columbus actually raped pillaged enslaved and slaughtered people just to
get rich
and router kitchens rewrite wanna columbus's crewmen
miquelle Cueto our clinic could nail
excuse me described the scene
when climbers arrived in his Polly up for a are hispaniola for a second time
when their boats pulled up thousands a these Indians Luciano's
came out to greet the ship's enquirer quote
when are Caravelle swirly for Spain we gathered 1000 I was there heading back
to spirit to head back to your
we gathered 1600 male and female persons are those Indians
for those who remained we let it be known to the Spaniards
who remained in the vicinity that anyone who wanted to take some of them
could do so to the amount desired which was done
canal went on to write that he took its own sex slave a beautiful teenage girl
who in his own words quote
resisted with all her strength and quote leaving him with no choice but to quote
Thrasher mercilessly and raper and quote
is from his own diaries
Columbus eventually started up a global child sex
slave business
selling indians all over the world
he bragged about a free in a letter to a friend 1500 he said
a hundred castallanos Spanish credited customs a Spanish Prime
are as easily obtain for a woman as for a farming is very general there are
plenty of dealers who go about looking for girls
those from nine to 10 years old are now in demand
end of quote from Christopher Columbus
eventually under columbus's role life first time that I you know people
on Hispaniola became so bad
that they resorted to mass suicide twenty-five years after college that
arrived in
on that island the Spanish missionary Pedro cord Alba
wrote quote as a result of the suffering and hard labor they endure the Indians
chose and have chosen suicide
occasionally a hundred have committed mass suicide the women exhausted by
labor is shunned conception in childbirth
you be many when pregnant have taken something to abort and have
aborted army
others have after delivery of kill their children with their own hand so as not
to leave them in such
oppressive slavery end of quote
eventually club commerce simply resorted to wiping out the tie it all together
prior to his arrival some scholars put the population of
he has been your at which is now sixteen million
at around 1/2 to 3 million people by 1496 was down to one point one million
according to a census done by Bartholomew
kill Columbus compasses brother in 1516 the indigenous populations 12,000
and by 1542 fewer than 200 natives were alive
by 1555 every single one was dead
knowing what we know now about Columbus Israel actions and intentions
do we really want to continue to use this derogatory term Redskins
that he probably is and certainly came out to his efforts
that he used to refer to the people the rape pillage slaughtered enslaved
as cost has pointed out we don't call sports teams mascots the N word
why is it why there or or you know black skins are yellow skins are
or white skins for the map for that matter why is it okay to call them
Redskins
in is time once and for all but the shameful history
columbus's genocide native americans behind us and we can start right here in
washington DC
with the name of our NFL team so let's build