Jeb Bush Just Gave A Middle Finger To The Entire Native American Community
Source: Huffington Post
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GOP presidential hopeful Jeb Bush is totally fine with Washington's NFL team using an un-trademarkable, dictionary-defined racial slur as its name, he said Wednesday.
“I don’t think [they] should change it,” the former Florida governor said on “The Arena,” a Sirius XM radio program that will premiere later this week, according to ABC News. “But again, I don’t think politicians ought to be having any say about that, to be honest with you. I don’t find it offensive. Native American tribes generally don’t find it offensive.”
It's good to know that a white man isn't offended by a term that's never been used to denigrate him and never will be. But Bush's casual dismissal of the mascot issue is telling.
“It’s a sport, for crying out loud. It’s a football team," he said. "Washington has a huge fan base -- I’m missing something here, I guess.”
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The dumber brother.
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and The Diesel, they were MY team. I even still know the fight song.
Wanna hear it?
Then-Gov. Jeb Bush (R-FL) in 2002
CREDIT: AP Photo/Scott Audette (via Think Progress)
“I don’t think it should change it,” the Republican presidential hopeful said on the The Arena. “But again, I don’t think politicians ought to be having any say about that, to be honest with you. I don’t find it offensive. Native American tribes generally don’t find it offensive.”
The Washington Redskin’s owner, Daniel Snyder, has vowed that the team will never change its name, even as Native American activists have objected to the dictionary-defined racial slur.
Last June, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s Trademark Trial and Appeal Board cancelled the team’s trademark registrations “because they were disparaging to Native Americans at the respective times they were registered, though the team is pursuing an appeal.
Snyder also happens to be helping bankroll Bush’s presidential campaign. In April, he contributed $100,000 to the Right to Rise Super PAC, a legally unaffiliated pro-Bush committee for which Bush himself actively raised money.
The Oneida Indian Nation's Change the Mascot campaign released a statement denouncing Bush for "endorsing the NFL’s preferred racial slur against Native Americans."
“What is surprising is that in promoting the use of this slur, the governor somehow believes he speaks for Native Americans and can assert that Native American people do not find this slur offensive. He clearly is missing something," the group said. "What is even more appalling is the governor’s declaration that because he personally doesn’t find this slur offensive, that makes it acceptable. This should be a very simple open-and-shut issue in the 2016 campaign: No presidential candidate should be promoting this racial slur against Native Americans.”
This sweaty patrician is one petulant, hate-filled sob.
And he thinks he is bred to rule.
