Thread: Controversy over team nicknames
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Old 09-23-2004, 04:41 AM   #54
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Originally Posted by CosaNostra
For people to say that calling a team The Braves is the same as naming a team, for example, White Trash or Jew Haters are over-stating their case. I doubt calling a team "Braves" or something like that was ever meant to be offensive from the outset.

Obviously people of any given particular group will decide what they feel is offensive; others will feel the opposite. I think we all know that naming a team, at least initially, was more for appropriate descriptive reasons than anything. Boston CELTICS. San Fransisco FORTY NINERS. Edmonton OILERS. Redskins, Braves, Reds etc probably had a high population of Native people in that area.
THE REDS IS NOT A NATIVE AMERICAN NAME

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