Controversy over team nicknames

**CosaNostra** · 09-22-2004, 12:09 PM

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.

09-22-2004, 12:09 PM	#14
CosaNostra IT'S ALL ABOUT OUR THING Posts: 4,521	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.