What Should I Call My Atlanta Franchise?

[The Wolf]

That's a really great uniform set!

I just joined the Flames partisans.

[The Wolf]

Originally Posted by madJ

And make the fans wear white hoods making a tomahawk chop on a black doll.

I wonder if the Braves have any idea about just how offensive that chop is to Native Americans? Or if they care?

[legofarley]

Originally Posted by The Wolf

I wonder if the Braves have any idea about just how offensive that chop is to Native Americans? Or if they care?

http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...offensive.html

[The Game]

I am heavily leaning towards Flames. I am gonna get someone to make me home white road grey for Atl and see what i think then. For now I am gonna stick with the Peaches uniforms I have.

[madJ]

Originally Posted by The Wolf

I wonder if the Braves have any idea about just how offensive that chop is to Native Americans? Or if they care?

If they know, they don't care. Obviously. But it's a catchy rhythm. That's probably the problem why Braves fans take part in that stupid stuff without thinking about it.
In the end even without thinking about how offensive that chop is, it is completely annoying. Watching games which involve the Braves at home is just a pain in the ass with that chop every time a home team player is on 2nd base.

[Mr. Marlin]

Here is the set I use in my league:

[Mr. Marlin]

Originally Posted by madJ

If they know, they don't care. Obviously. But it's a catchy rhythm. That's probably the problem why Braves fans take part in that stupid stuff without thinking about it.
In the end even without thinking about how offensive that chop is, it is completely annoying. Watching games which involve the Braves at home is just a pain in the ass with that chop every time a home team player is on 2nd base.

Even worse, it's not original. The FSU Seminoles started doing that long before Atlanta fans did.

[madJ]

Originally Posted by Mr. Marlin

Even worse, it's not original. The FSU Seminoles started doing that long before Atlanta fans did.

Yeah, I know. That lets Braves Fans look even more stupid. Sorry if I offend someone (Braves fan) by calling him stupid, but, well, Braves fans offend even more people.

[Tekneek]

Originally Posted by The Wolf

I wonder if the Braves have any idea about just how offensive that chop is to Native Americans? Or if they care?

When it comes to offending Native Americans, the film and television industry is better (and more prolific) at it than anybody else.

[The Wolf]

Originally Posted by madJ

If they know, they don't care.

I wonder how long a chant like that would go on before it was stopped for good if it was about black people instead of Native Americans and instead of a tomahawk involved either cotton picking or watermelon? Yeah, probably about one repetition. And then there would be a massive apology. But Native Americans are only third-class citizens, it seems, and so can be crapped upon by baseball unmercifully forever.

Major League Baseball (and the NFL) doesn't just tolerate racism against Native Americans, they actively promote it. Shame on them all.

[The Wolf]

Originally Posted by madJ

Yeah, I know. That lets Braves Fans look even more stupid. Sorry if I offend someone (Braves fan) by calling him stupid, but, well, Braves fans offend even more people.

Yes, they do.

[The Game]

txranger made some uniforms for me so I am gonna go with his idea. Atlanta Coca-Colas.

[madJ]

Originally Posted by The Wolf

I wonder how long a chant like that would go on before it was stopped for good if it was about black people instead of Native Americans and instead of a tomahawk involved either cotton picking or watermelon? Yeah, probably about one repetition. And then there would be a massive apology. But Native Americans are only third-class citizens, it seems, and so can be crapped upon by baseball unmercifully forever.

Major League Baseball (and the NFL) doesn't just tolerate racism against Native Americans, they actively promote it. Shame on them all.

Being from Germany we are instantly called "Nazis" if we say or do something racist. But in North American professional sports they are racist against Native Americans without hesitation. Yet I thought the human race would have learned from past mistakes.

[Orioles1966]

Atlanta Atomics
Atlanta Atoms
Atlanta Barons
Atlanta Aeros
Atlanta Arrow
Georgia Gladiators(also play home games in Rome,GA)
Georgia Grizzlies

[Honorable_Pawn]

Although I agree that our country has become waay too politically correct and that it is time for a backlash against that kind of thought control, I agree that we should be more sensitive considering the genocide that we committed against the native populations.

Slavery is one thing but genocide is absolutely another.

[The Wolf]

Originally Posted by madJ

Being from Germany we are instantly called "Nazis" if we say or do something racist. But in North American professional sports they are racist against Native Americans without hesitation. Yet I thought the human race would have learned from past mistakes.

Madj, when did people ever learn anything from history?

[The Wolf]

Originally Posted by Honorable_Pawn

Although I agree that our country has become waay too politically correct and that it is time for a backlash against that kind of thought control, I agree that we should be more sensitive considering the genocide that we committed against the native populations.

Slavery is one thing but genocide is absolutely another.

Germ warfare, indiscriminate massacre, rape, grand theft nation and genocide. And still mistreated to this day as third-class citizens.

Bitter Native American joke: Q. Why were the blacks enslaved while we suffered genocide? A. They got first choice.

[madJ]

Originally Posted by The Wolf

Madj, when did people ever learn anything from history?

Never. There are too many people out there who refuse to learn anything.

[mm7607]

Atlanta team in my league is called the Georgia Blazers.