Football History Not Human History

The talk about the term "Redskin" is interesting. 

In my last post, I talked a little about the term's origins. It really is a term evocative of the failure of White Conquest of the North American Continent. The term is a sign of Native American insurrectional success.

It was not meant as a compliment. It is a racial epithet. Possibly you could argue that saying it is a sign of insurrectional success is trying to assimilate even Native American resistance and make light of it. You can not make light of the price American Natives paid fighting White gluttony and the racist narcissism of manifest destiny.

It gets uglier. The moral narcissism of today's Authoritarian Age places America at the center of an inquisitorial storm of ignorance. Cloaking themselves in inquisitorial garb, the instant outrage community slaughters any free speaker who dares deviate from the official moral policy. It is first strike narcissism. The plain view doctrine applies. The denunciators set themselves up as morally perfect and in the process are indulging in moral self-love of masturbatory proportions.

Perhaps that joy is born from the delusion that one will be spared being designated a racist. Shakespeare comes to mind. Methinks they doth protest too much. Making a theatrical performance of moral rectitude is a sign to me you are guilty of the crimes you accuse others of. I'd beware of any White NFL commentator taking a haughty view of the term "Redskin". Genetically, they cannot escape being caught up in a race warfare cage as they are contending they are a mutation in the human genome, being of course, the first morally perfect White Men.

That does not escape White Supremacy. That does not escape Manifest Destiny. It is damned indecent of you to stare Native Americans in the face and claim moral perfection since that was what your genocidal, my genocidal, ancestors did.

There is something passing strange about this. Many advocates of slaughtering Native Americans were Christians. Including, I'm assuming, the Chief Architect of Genocidal Aims, President Andrew Jackson. Fundamental Christian Cynicism opines that "All have sinned and fall short of the Glory of God." How one gets the moral perfection of manifest destiny out of that is hard to fathom.

The human race has always been fiendish from the very beginning. There has been little evolution in that regard. The sense of moral outrage which comes from moral narcissism is the preamble to destruction of the planet. Moral Perfectionism is therefore the royal road to human fiendishness.

Human history, and the term "Redskin", does a disservice to football history. The term "Redskin" is historically explosive, morally complex, and does not describe the football "Redskins" in any way, shape or form. For the Washington Commanders to go back to that Nickname would reanimate that confusion and the media's theatrical moral contempt for all things Washington Football. Needless political trash. And a waste of time and energy.

That's why I advocate a nickname of Burgundy and Gold. In honor of the good men who wore those colors, played good football, and who deserve our remembrance.