So true ....

[The Sicatoka]

Samuel Adams had the present day American political landscape perfectly described from 200 years ago.

It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.

- Samuel Adams

" ... an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds ... "

He nailed it.

[andtheHomeoftheSIOUX!!]

Samuel Adams had the present day American political landscape perfectly described from 200 years ago.

It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.

- Samuel Adams

" ... an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds ... "

He nailed it.

Thats for sure.

[The Sicatoka]

Here's a real beauty out setting brush fires.

http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096417559

I will list the offending nicknames that I found, but I won't give the names of the colleges just yet. I'll spare them one more chance to repent and be saved before our UAIAC investigators are let loose upon them, followed by our close-order shrill team. Here are the offending nicknames I found: Aztecs, Braves (three teams), Chippewas, Choctaws, Indians (six, including Haskell), Moccasins, Nanooks, Red Men, Redmen, Renegades, Runnin' Utes, Savage Storm, Seminoles, Fighting Sioux, Tribe (College of William and Mary, of all the uppity hypocrites), Utes, Wahoos, Warriors (30, including Bacone College) and the Zias.

And to the ''Moundbuilders'' down at Southwestern College in Kansas: That name better mean ants or prairie dogs, boys, or we will be down to visit you.

Now "Renegades" is an issue? And Savage Storm? And Zias?

Moundbuilders ....

I Googled "Zias" and found a bunch of Italian restaurants.

A Renegade (per Princeton's definitions) is:

someone who rebels and becomes an outlaw

deserter: a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc.

rebel: break with established customs

recreant: having deserted a cause or principle; "some provinces had proved recreant"; "renegade supporters of the usurper"

I don't see anything race specific in that.

So, look at what Myles Brand has created.

Someone needs to tell Myles arson is a crime and he should stop facilitating it.

[dagies]

Here's a real beauty out setting brush fires.

http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096417559

Now "Renegades" is an issue? And Savage Storm? And Zias?

Moundbuilders ....

I Googled "Zias" and found a bunch of Italian restaurants.

A Renegade (per Princeton's definitions) is:

someone who rebels and becomes an outlaw

deserter: a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc.

rebel: break with established customs

recreant: having deserted a cause or principle; "some provinces had proved recreant"; "renegade supporters of the usurper"

I don't see anything race specific in that.

So, look at what Myles Brand has created.

Someone needs to tell Myles arson is a crime and he should stop facilitating it.

Here's the part I found interesting in that piece:

I don't know if any Indian alumni of UND have suffered great humiliation while they were on campus there, or post-traumatic syndrome thereafter. It seems the Indian students there in the recent past were OK with the nickname until more sophisticated students from the East came to campus to teach them how to be appropriately outraged. At least that seems to be the finding of a delegation from the Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Council that went up to the university to assess the situation and make recommendations for appropriate council action.

So much effort seems to be put into bringing Indian people into the enlightenment of victimhood.

[The Sicatoka]

Yeah, he finishes strong.

It's time to get off the mostly futile crusade of forcing high school, college and professional athletic teams to quit offending some of our people. Or psyching whites to the point that they don't even know what to call us: Native Americans, American Indians, or People of Color.

Watching our students on campus spend time making slogan signs and picketing athletic events, or booing faculty and white students, causes one to wonder what is happening to their grades and their psyches in the process.

Generations of successful Native alumni of the institutions using allegedly offensive nicknames attest to our strength as Indian people to ignore such inane silliness, and move on to much more important things.

[Chief Illiniwek Supporter]

" ... an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds ... "

He nailed it.

I also like the quote which says in so many words "all that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing". I think that applies to the current situation also.

[Goon]

will list the offending nicknames that I found, but I won't give the names of the colleges just yet. I'll spare them one more chance to repent and be saved before our UAIAC investigators are let loose upon them, followed by our close-order shrill team. Here are the offending nicknames I found: Aztecs, Braves (three teams), Chippewas, Choctaws, Indians (six, including Haskell), Moccasins, Nanooks, Red Men, Redmen, Renegades, Runnin' Utes, Savage Storm, Seminoles, Fighting Sioux, Tribe (College of William and Mary, of all the uppity hypocrites), Utes, Wahoos, Warriors (30, including Bacone College) and the Zias.

Oh hell why not just add Dutchmen, Irish, Norsk and anyother name that even one person might be offended by? I am sure there are people that can be offended by just about anything.

NCAA, where is your power? Have you no guts? Your sole sanction against schools that disregard your orders - nay, your wimpy ''suggestion'' - is banishment from postseason competition, depriving them of bragging rights for a year. That leaves a whole bunch of cellar-dwellers with vacant postseasons to fill. Anyway, these are the institutions, Mr. NCAA, that are flipping you the bird and tormenting us Natives.

Even after the Lawsuit I am still not convinced the NCAA really has to power to do this and believe they grossley over stepped their bounds of the NCAA charter, mainly because they are taking a state rights away from them. What are they going to do bring the police in and haul people out?

don't know if any Indian alumni of UND have suffered great humiliation while they were on campus there, or post-traumatic syndrome thereafter. It seems the Indian students there in the recent past were OK with the nickname until more sophisticated students from the East came to campus to teach them how to be appropriately outraged. At least that seems to be the finding of a delegation from the Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Council that went up to the university to assess the situation and make recommendations for appropriate council action.

This statement couldn't be more true.

[Sal Atticum]

So you admit that students from the east are more sophisticated? How very self-defeating of you.

[The Sicatoka]

So you admit that students from the east are more sophisticated? How very self-defeating of you.

I take it you aren't sophisticated enough to understand the term 'cynicism' as that is what the author was expressing.

[Goon]

So you admit that students from the east are more sophisticated? How very self-defeating of you.

Like Sicatoka said, it was the sarcasm of the article that I was talking about. Think hard; your liberal college professor(s) from the more enlightened East (a lot of them present themselves this way), I know I had a few of them at UND and some of them acted pompus and like they were better than everyone. My first Master thesis advisor matched that discription to a "T" so NO it is not SELF DEFEATING.