REDSKIN. Its quite simple really⌠My peoples skin is not RED! Although after a bad day in the sun certain parts of my skin can be bright pink. 
Redskin is a slang term for Native Americans in the United States and First Nations in Canada. The term redskin underwent pejoration through the 19th to early 20th centuries[1] and in contemporary dictionaries of American English it is labeled as offensive, disparaging, or insulting.
The origin of the choice of red to describe Native Americans in English is debated. While related terms were used in anthropological literature as early as the 17th century, labels based on skin-color entered everyday speech around the middle of the 18th century. âAt the start of the eighteenth century, Indians and Europeans rarely mentioned the color of each otherâs skins. By midcentury, remarks about skin color and the categorization of peoples by simple color-coded labels (red, white, black) had become commonplace.â[2]
Although term has almost disappeared from contemporary general use, it remains as the name of many sports teams. Most prominent was the National Football League team in Washington, D.C. After decades of resistance to change by the owners, management and fans; major sponsors responded to calls to end systemic racism in the wake of the murder of George Floyd by advocating a name change. In July 2020 the name âWashington Redskinsâ was retired and temporarily replaced with âWashington Football Teamâ, the new name âWashington Commandersâ was announced on February 2, 2022. While the usage by other teams has been declining steadily, 38 high schools in the United States continue to be redskins. School administrators and alumni assert that their use of the name is honoring their local tradition and not insulting to Native Americans.
History of the Washignton Redskins
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/a-brief-history-of-the-word-redskin-and-how-it-became-a-source-of-controversy/2016/05/19/062cd618-187f-11e6-9e16-2e5a123aac62_story.html
As far back as 1972 indigenous leaders were asking for the team to change the name
https://law.marquette.edu/facultyblog/2013/12/why-is-the-word-redskin-so-offensive/comment-page-1/
I have to disagree with you on this. Donât look at the articles as a one off looking for an issue. Look at the big picture of how indigenous people after a few hundred years of a policy of extermination are now not even acknowledged as a part of society.
There has never been a indigenous President or Vice President, There has never been a Indigenous member of the Supreme Court. There have been very few indigenous Governors.
Look at Canada where the residential school system DESTROYED 7 GENERATIONS of indigenous families. That is 7 generations of children being tortured, murdered, starved, raped and sodomized. What do you think that does to a society?
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/canadas-residential-schools-were-a-horror/
https://nctr.ca/education/teaching-resources/residential-school-history/
More than 150000 indigenous children were taken from their community. What would be the effect if that happened to one generation of your family Varmstrong? Now expand that to 7 Generations. I was born in 1969. I could have easily ended up in one of these residential schools. But I grew up in a white city with white Irish Grandparents on my Momâs side. On my Dads Indigenous side 3 siblings commited suicide and 2 ruined there lives with drugs or alcohol including my Father. My Dads Father and Grandfather were ripped off by the government, ran off their land, moved to what is now Jasper National Park and were then burned out and hunted.
The last residential school in Canada closed in 1997. If I was born one generation earlier my 3 kids could have ended up in one of those schools.
It is estimated over 25000 children died in these schools as wards of the government and the churchâs. Experiments on starvation were conducted on these kids.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10758517/How-thousands-indigenous-children-died-Canadas-residential-schools.html
In 2022 a good portion of Canadian Indigenous people do not have clean drinking water? It is estimated that 52% of American Indigenous people do not have clean drinking water or sanitation. Now you may blame the tribes for this and their system of Government. Realize their system of Government was forced upon them by the white man. Not surprisingly many are just as corrupt as state or national governments.
If this article here does not make a point then we should just stick our heads in the sand and âŚ
Native Americans today face some extraordinary challenges. These statistics from the Urban Indian Health Institute were compiled from a survey of 71 U.S. cities in 2016. The numbers speak for themselves: Native American women make up a significant portion of the missing and murdered cases. Not only is the murder rate ten times higher than the national average for women living on reservations but murder is the third leading cause of death for Native women.
ââŚmurder is the third leading cause of death for native women.â
https://www.nativehope.org/missing-and-murdered-indigenous-women-mmiw
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/5/5/us-canada-commemorate-missing-and-murdered-indigenous-women
It seems the US government contributes to the problem.
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/articles/2021-11-01/the-link-between-missing-indigenous-women-and-missing-data
If the fact that American and Canadian Indigenous have never and do not have clean drinking water in 2022 and the fact that Murder is the third leading cause of indigenous womans death not make a point then I dont know what does.
What would happen to America if the third leading cause of death for white woman in America was murder?
https://www.aspeninstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/files/content/images/Fast%20Facts.pdf
This report states that the federal Government only meets 52% of Indigenous health Care needs.
Challenges in Indian Country As a result of historical trauma, chronically underfunded federal programs, and broken promises on the part of the US government, American Indians and Alaska Natives experience many health, educational and economic disparities compared to the general population. The poverty rate among AI/ANs in 2009 was 23.6% (2009 census), and 32.4% of the under-18 AI/AN population lives in poverty (NCAI Policy Research Center). Average AI/AN household income is $33,300, while the national average is $46,200. According to the 2000 Census, Indians living in Indian Country have incomes less than half the national average (Duthu, N. Bruce. American Indians and the Law, New York: Penguin Group, 2008. Print. Page 118). 24.1 percent of AI/ANs lack health insurance coverage (2009 census data) and rely solely on the Indian health system. This is one factor leading to major health disparities among the AI/AN population: o Alcoholism mortality rates are 514 percent higher than the general population. o Suicide rates are more than double, and Native teens experience the highest rate of suicide of any population group in the United States. o Diabetes incidence is 177 percent higher, with the highest rate of type 2 diabetes of any specific population in the U.S. o Tuberculosis incidence is 500 percent higher. The national graduation rate for American Indian high school students was 49.3 percent for the 2003-4 school year, compared with 76.2 percent for white students. Just 13.3 percent of Native Americans.
The bicycle industry is just a microcosm of society in General.
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