Red skin bad, Dark skin good
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@LuFins-Dad said in Red skin bad, Dark skin good:
Right now, Redskins is not the biggest slur in their name. Washington is. Their city was named after a slave owner that while fighting to free one group of people chose to keep another in bondage. Yes, he expressed distaste for the practice, but never released his own slaves because of the financial ramifications. He didn't want to have to pay labor. Cheap bastard. This sick and evil man is should not be honored by having a city and team named after him.
Don't forget that Washington also farmed tobacco. Can you imagine the number of people who died from lung cancer due to him?
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@89th said in Red skin bad, Dark skin good:
@LuFins-Dad said in Red skin bad, Dark skin good:
Right now, Redskins is not the biggest slur in their name. Washington is. Their city was named after a slave owner that while fighting to free one group of people chose to keep another in bondage. Yes, he expressed distaste for the practice, but never released his own slaves because of the financial ramifications. He didn't want to have to pay labor. Cheap bastard. This sick and evil man is should not be honored by having a city and team named after him.
Don't forget that Washington also farmed tobacco. Can you imagine the number of people who died from lung cancer due to him?
How many fled enslavement in other countries because he gave them a place to go?
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@89th said in Red skin bad, Dark skin good:
@LuFins-Dad said in Red skin bad, Dark skin good:
Potomac means River of Swans. Swans are white.
I thought Potomac meant Horse river or something.
"Potomac" is a European spelling of Patawomeck, the Algonquian name of a Native American village on its southern bank. Native Americans had different names for different parts of the river, calling the river above Great Falls Cohongarooton, meaning "honking geese" and "Patawomke" below the Falls, meaning "river of swans". The spelling of the name has taken many forms over the years from "Patawomeck" (as on Captain John Smith's map) to "Patomake", "Patowmack", and numerous other variations in the 18th century and now "Potomac". The river's name was officially decided upon as "Potomac" by the Board on Geographic Names in 1931
