Redskins vs. Patriots.

• Author: Rocker, John
• Position: SPORTS SCENE - Washington Redskins and New England Patriots

WHEN OUR GOVERNMENT was at a standstill and the debt crisis was looming ever closer to a national catastrophe, Pres. Barack Obama made time to address an issue that truly affects every American: what the National Football league team in Washington, D.C., calls itself. Yes, while you were worrying about the government collapsing, the President was concerned about the "insensitivity" of a football team calling itself the Redskins. Obama let the country know that, if he were the owner of the Redskins and he knew the name "was offending a sizable group of people, I'd think about changing it," even though the "sizable" amount of individuals who are offended constitute less than 20% of Native Americans and 10% of Redskin fans.

God forbid if any person in the U.S. ever is offended. Trotting out the unholy crime of being offensive as a reason to change a name that has more than 80 years of history seems good enough for our liberal friends but, if the left is up in arms about the Red skins, I think there is another team they might hate even more. That mascot belongs to none other than the New England Patriots. Wait a minute: who possibly could be offended by the name Patriots? Aren't Patriots synonymous with everything good about this nation we call ours? Aren't the Founding Fathers the very Patriots the nickname suggests, some of the best men America ever has produced?--not in today's America.

Those very Founders are not considered heroes anymore by our education system; they now are seen as evil, slave-owning white men who simply did not want to pay taxes. Kids today no longer learn about the great achievements of the men who founded this country. Instead, they learn about all of the atrocities we committed against American Indians, slaves, women, Hispanics, cross-dressing transvestites, and any other minority that now is granted angelic status by the liberal powers that be.

Just take a look at the teaching materials the Department of Homeland Security produces. The DHS labeled the colonialists who sought independence from the British Empire in 1776 as "extremists," and they are listed in the section that described ideologies that promote terrorism. Apparently, it is a real shame that our Founders were not more like those in academia who produced these manuals--sitting in an air-conditioned office all day, doing junk work, gulping down high-fructose corn syrup, and depending entirely on the tax money of hardworking Americans is a lot more...