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Message: <blockquote data-quote="slipshot762" data-source="post: 7914041" data-attributes="member: 7020220">Is it "white folks" who own the team and get to name it? all of them? sounds mighty racist to me that you broadbrush it so...maybe examine the ethnic makeup of the team owners, sounds to me more like the wealthy get to name it...are you seriously saying native americans cannot purchase a sportsball team? with a straight face, even?ah yes, derived from the power plus privilege tripe that leads ultimately to anti-semitism...yeah, that is simply not valid my friend.Yes, it is only "white folks" that get to keep using a term deemed by the council on racist terms as racist, and further it "dehumanizes" native americans as "less than white"; actually, as "different than white" which is the same I suppose if you are a racist. And "get to?" How arrogant of you.Or you could quit being ultra sensitive and lamenting faux dehumanization from one corner of your mouth while doing just the same yourself out the other; "redskin/redman/whiteskin/whiteman". Give it up already only the blind are buying it.</blockquote>