Political Quotes

“It's time that the National Football League and the NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell face the reality that the continued use of the word ``redskin'' is unacceptable. It is a racist, derogatory term and patently offensive to Native Americans. The Native American community has spent millions of dollars over the past two decades trying earnestly to fight the racism that is perpetuated by this slur. {time} 1030 The fact that the NFL and Commissioner Goodell continue to deny this is a shameful testament of the mistreatment of Native Americans for so many years. It is quite obvious that once the American public understands why the word ``redskins'' is so offensive, they'll know that the word should never be used again. The origin of the term ``redskins'' is commonly attributed to the historical practice of trading Native American Indian scalps and body parts as bounties and trophies. For example, in 1749, the British bounty on the Mi'kmaq Nation of what is now Maine and Nova Scotia was a straightforward ``10 Guineas for every Indian Mi'kmaq taken or killed, to be paid upon producing such savage taken or his scalp.'' Just as devastating was the Phips Proclamation, issued in 1755 by Spencer Phips, lieutenant governor and commander in chief of the Massachusetts Bay Province, who called for the wholesale extermination of the Penobscot Indian Nation.…”