Mike Lester for July 14, 2020

And you continue to refer to them as “Indian” why? The Euro-conqueror thought he found India, um, he did not. When corrected the Euro’s said eh, wtf, we’ll call you “Indians” any way.

Lester, do you really thought the Founder of the team saw calling them “Redskins” was really honoring the Native Americans? Yeah, stories say he did it to honor their bravery then the team commissioned a Native American artist decades later to design a logo to replace the “R” on the helmets. As result, we got something that is supposed to be a real person who was a chief in the Blackfoot tribe. They could’ve been the Washington Blackfoot or Blackfeet team. Instead, we got something that was considered “slang, derogatory or not” for the American Indian.

OMIGOD! What a dunce!

I’d like to ask Ira Hayes, but we can’t ask him anymore . . .

8 years from now, Mike who?

To all of you who don’t understand why Native people don’t like redskin. https://indiancountrytoday.com/archive/seeking-250-reward-settlers-hunted-for-redskin-scalps-during-extermination-e-m9B_A2N79k-hEF9bbit0IQ The Atchison Daily Champion clip is not the first of its kind to be unearthed in recent years. In November 2013, Dallas Goldtooth, Dakota, and also of the 1491s, discovered a news clipping dated 1863 where the advertisement stated the “reward for dead Indians has been increased to $200 for every red-skin sent to Purgatory.” “It was only five generations ago that a white man could get money for one of my grandfather’s scalps,” Said media has perpetuated the image and idea that scalps were taken solely from the bodies of dead Native American males. “It’s this idea that’s been painted in media that people who were doing all the fighting and dying were Indian men,” he said. “The matter of the fact was that whole families were being massacred – male, female, old, young – soldiers were going in and slaughtering countless human beings.” “People make this crazy argument that ‘redskin’ is some kind of Indian term, but when you take a look at something like this, ‘redskin’ is clearly referring to a bounty [on] dead human [beings],” he said.

I’m Native American. Lakota. Rosebud Rez. South Dakota. I’m not a savage. I’m not a redskin. I’m not a drunk. I’m not stupid or ignorant. And I’m not from India. I AM college educated, Army Vietnam Vet, retired from a 28 year job, and a survivor of The Indian Boarding Schools. When I was a child I was forced to go to the Indian Boarding School. Indians couldn’t go to Public School. The Catholic Boarding School Marty So. Dakota. I was beaten, raped and called Savage, Redskin, Drunk, Stupid and many more names by the nuns and priests. I AM NOT A REDSKIN. And you will not call me that to my face. And please if it’s such a great name? Then why isn’t there the Blackskins??? Oh yeah because my people don’t matter.

They needed to change their racist name years ago!

The first panel should read “Let’s name our team after a slur for Native Americans”.

Otherwise, just another disingenuous cartoon from an intellectually dishonest cartoonist. par for the course in Lester World.

Yes, because the Washington Redskins did so much for Native American heritage and representation.

Hey, Li’l Mikey, back then they didn’t call them “American Indians” they just called them “Indians”, when they weren’t saying “Injuns”. the same way they said “nigger”, Spic", Kike, etc. I’m sure you know those words.

I’m amused by the idea that Lester’s predicting that in 2028 the kids will be protected by bubbles, the adults will be using Segway look-alikes and the best part: Non-binary people will have kids and nobody will think it’s odd at all.

Or wait. I just realized: He’s predicting that this horror will come to pass ONLY IF we insist on changing team names to be non-objectionable to native Americans. THAT makes a lot more sense. Because: Lester!

An Indian: someone who is either a citizen of India, or traces their recent ancestry back to India.

This is the only correct meaning. Native Americans are not Indians.

Sports teams are named after scary dangerous wild animals to instill fear in opponents, names like bears, rams, bulls, and Indians.

So in 8 years Lester predicts that India will no longer exist?

The cancel culture is a real issue. "Those who control the present control the past. Those who control the past control the future. " (Orwell).