Portland's first pro basketball championship

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  1. KingSpeed

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    Re: Porland's first pro basketball championship

    Editor's note: Portland's team name was omitted from this story in keeping with The Oregonian's policy not to publish Native-themed nicknames.

    what the fuck.
     
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    Re: Porland's first pro basketball championship

    so what do they do when reporting sports scores? just say "washington" for the redskins? i'd love to see the stories when "Washington" plays "Seattle".
     
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    Re: Porland's first pro basketball championship

    2 questions....... Wonder if Rice was calling those games and were people with Dish and Directv able to see them even back then?
     
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    Re: Porland's first pro basketball championship

    It's nice to know at one point we had Laker-like reffing.
     
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    Why do they insist on discriminating against indians that way? :tsktsk:
     
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    Re: Porland's first pro basketball championship

    Interesting how the team in Salem was called the Trailblazers
     
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    Re: Porland's first pro basketball championship

    Wait, I thought the Winterhawks were, how do you say, Native American-themed?

    http://www.oregonlive.com/hawks/

    EDIT: Didn't see MM's post. Carry on.
     
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    Re: Porland's first pro basketball championship

    So if there were a team called, let's say, the "Oregonians" that would be forbidden because, you know, it's racist to represent a class of people as having positive attributes? I suppose some might find the symbolic opening of the umbrellas particularly offensive, but it wouldn't really bother me.
     
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    http://www.chemawa.bie.edu/

    Don't those native americans realize they are insulting themselves? What do they teach them in that school anyway?

    BTW: My grandfather was American Indian. Do you know what he called himself? Indian. It was good enough for my grandpa, it's good enough for me.

    How long before the term "native american" is shunned for some new term? I can't wait to find out.
     
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    Re: Porland's first pro basketball championship

    They were the Portland Indians. The whole native american thing is overblown these days in this country.
     
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    Says the PaleFace
     
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    Re: Porland's first pro basketball championship

    They could have at least given them a cool name like the Wagon Burners!
     
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    Pale Faces would be a comical team mascot. Genociders just doesn't have a good ring to it.
     
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    Re: Porland's first pro basketball championship

    If teams and organizations are going to be worried about political correctness, and forced to change mascots, I'd like to see an irish person complain about Notre Dame being the fighting irish, for the negative light it shines on the irish with the term fighting in it. Would the NCAA make ND change? ND seems above the NCAA in everything, would like to see what happens if they were challenged.
     
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    Re: Porland's first pro basketball championship

    Hahahahahahahaha!
     
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    Re: Porland's first pro basketball championship

    The Oregonian also has a policy of not reporting race in stories. It gets kind of comical at times. Here is an example from today.



    Also it appears that the Oregonian has decided that it's not politically correct to report that someone is overweight, lol.
     
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    Re: Porland's first pro basketball championship

    So, according to the Oregonian, local authorities have asked the public to be on the lookout for two men. I'm surprised they are allowed to report the gender of the suspects. Next up: police have asked the public to be on the lookout for two persons. They are considered armed and misunderstood.

    BNM
     
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