Kicking Custer's Ass

The question of the Washington NFL Franchise's nickname is still open according to some. I am going to try to present a shamanic interpretation of the word "Redskin" and argue in support of the nickname. Do a little vision-questing.

Woke Postulate: The term "Redskin" represents the extermination of Native America. Retort: The claim Native Americans were exterminated like pests is false. Native America still exists and was not wiped out. That claim is White Narcissism. 

In other words, the claims of the Woke Community that Native Americans were victims of White Supremacy is a "projection" of the Woke Community's own supremacist/narcissist ideation. The defensive self-infatuation of the Woke White. "I'm not like that."

You are precisely THAT. Claiming the Natives were wiped out is a declaration of victory by Woke Whites. The True Supremacists.

Native America still exists because of an insurgency led by people the Whites, out of frustration and stress related brain fog, called "Redskins". You don't trash talk someone you are routing. You trash talk someone who is kicking your ass. 

It is unsurprising some Natives adopted the name proudly because they knew intuitively it was an expression of defeat on the part of the Whites. "I am a Redskin" equaled "I am your ass-kicker."

Somebody somewhere, it wasn't me, said something like "Isn't every Cowboy game an exercise in kicking Custer's ass?" A Little Bighorn re-enactment?

Football is just a game. I don't know that it is the proper venue for understanding history. Or keeping memory alive.

But isn't it interesting an attempt was made to wipe out the memory of the Washington Redskins. George Armstrong Custer and Andrew Jackson, citing supremacist moral authority, attempted to wipe out real Native America. They can't even allow the vaguest notion of an insurgent Native America. That would indeed contradict the narcissistic myth of manifest destiny and American Conquistadorial Exceptionalism.

Maybe there is a deeper down unconscious Jungian thing going on. That the extermination of the Washington Redskins symbolizes the successful extermination of Native Americans.  

Woke America no doubt would have made Custer proud.

It seems to me John Riggins, in his recent post at MegaRiggins, was correct in that the Washington NFL Franchise should negotiate with the Tribes. Part ownership. Profit sharing. Taking an active role in Native concerns. The disappearances of Native women and children. Putting a Native American on the Board.

And in some way celebrating the fact Native America is still alive, was not exterminated, and ultimately will flourish again. 

Just what we fans want for the Redskin Football Team.