Josh in Albuquerque listening to KBBQ hey Josh what's
what's up by you don't of graduates are by the Redskins yessir
I amor Native American myself and I gotta
kind over disagree with the idea that people are so upset with the
name Redskins now I mean it seems to me that it's a
sensationalized story another
for you know in order to make people feel better about themselves
are you a registered tribal member yes i am certain I am a registered member of
the Acoma Pueblo in the
Mexico to Native Americans refer to themselves as Redskins
a no but I have heard other natives a phone call the team the skin
yeah okay on all the but you know we don't have the
the the you know the Alabama black skins or the
San Francisco yellow skins worried whether
for sure the II don't let it rain White Sands
some people aren't offended by it I am by player for into somebody's skin color
that's that's
defining them in a way that is that is racial rather than noble
but I think it does no good to want to change it now
I mean me when you look at the problems plaguing our people
there's I mean look at our Reservations most people live on the reservation
live in poverty ever be a city they're sequestered just completely crippled or
for in health services yes I mean a
we have alcoholism we have casinos self-imposed gambling problem
you know i mean it's kind of if we change the name tomorrow
the Redskins if we change it to something else we change the name
tomorrow
it would not affect one Native American
in any railway but here's
here's the good thing that this conversation is done Josh
by evoking this conversation by the present revoking this conversation Bob
Costas
in the national media it has cast a light on the exact problems that you
just described
and this this is an opportunity
this is an option is step into that debate that I would encourage Native
American leaders around the united states to take
two's step up in it whether they're going to say as as you did
it doesn't matter that much to me or whether they're gonna say yes please
change the name
they should say oh and by the way I you know
we have been suffering oppression and where where the
you know it i buy whole cost the Holocaust Native Americans was far
larger than the whole
than any other holocaust in history the world rise as far as I know
on hand and that Holocaust is ongoing and
the prison camp still exist arguably and
and and and and the in you know we call the reservations in the ghetto still
exist in our schools in our housing
and let's have a conversation about those things see but that's why i think
its
this is more of a way for a you know non-native people to make themselves
better feel better about the fact that they treated so horribly in the first
place it's kinda too little too late I'm India
you know it's it's its yeah that's great but why wasn't the first thing that was
brought up
you know above the poverty that we live in you know a lot of our elders
you know we talk about details for security race enters comes on a short
time in
you talk about how seniors or you know her having trouble making it
you know from from month to month in its true and it's also true for
may get on native elders and seniors who itself oftentimes don't have
you know transport to make it to you know the hospital ordered to pay for
their beds or whatever
yeah its kinda its kinda for
well like I said I think this is an opportunity to have that conversation
the fact the matter is that the average american
on who is not a Native American and has never associate with Native Americans
has no hook to open that conversation is no news workers no discussion
there's no you know Wounded Knee uprising going on
about around the same time the third rail on the I'll
a little news tell them to share was the only one who brought it up a needed
like a 23 minute segment and then never heard anything about
the native a health service being hit by the sequester again
although it's it's a good rest of us you know i mean yeah heard more on the
liberal media about how or even in the
regular mainstream media about how the Redskins offensive and nothing related
to that or are branching off from it rather
what you just brought it up Josh in thank I was spared I
you know I have to say I was unaware of that I did not realize that the
sequester was taking down the the
the the health services it yeah
%uh the reservation health services on how bad is it what's what's going on
with
it's pretty bad the a a lot of hospitals have
less than 1 doctors who are on full pay
you know i mean see our full time some is because their federal if I have a
hard time
you know they're asking us for you know this is supposed to be something that we
get
you know as part of the you know reparations always foreign for their
response to get
but you know with they're asking us for insurance because the funds that are
supposed to pay for
for the health care that we get is is so short that they're having to bill your
insurance for
amid and a lot of us don't have it because you know
we don't make enough money in order to do it Ryan yeah
and urself Josh no have gonna be some people out there who say that there are
a lot of
more wealthy Native American cuz we have to see other stuff but those stories are
few and far between those are usually tribes that are very very small
and you know have the opportunity to
take care of other tribal members in that way so the idea that
in of all native americans are you know rolling in the dough things or casinos
is just completely false
yes yes its exception the the
the proves a role of anything the Josh
you have done a brilliant job of laying out this
larger issue and that's why I was saying also a it's Columbus Day
on that was the beginning Nov a continent-wide genocide
other pool like genocide and if I might disrupt quickly
sir I might try it was actually picked on by one they are not there the
conditional
when you're not certain he actually his Sun raped attack on a woman and we
killed Osama for it because it seemed appropriate at the time i spose
mmm and the he took a cat into Sky City which is our
home and afterwards after he leaves you know pretty much
you know can invest into submission because of the right foot up every actor
male like 12 and older something like that
and people still celebrate one day on out there and I just have to say that
that's really not an appropriate thing is
stop the 1500 yes yeah yeah and this is
these are the stories that we're not teaching our kids in school that
ever that we need to be teaching our kids in school the things that we need
to be talking about
and you know once again at Columbus Day or whether
or the debate about the Washington Redskins can evoke these conversations i
mean
it got you to call in and say these things and and hopefully
the more conversations like this will happen I realize the corporate media is
probably going to see as far away from this as they can but
but you know here's an opportunity to to try and knock on that door so
I you know regardless of the position you're taking on what bob costas the
president are saying the fact that they're taking that position has cracked
the door open for conversation like this
Josh thank you for the call thank you sir and and and for your insights and
thoughts