REDSKIN

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Is the Use of Redskin ' Racist

Racism is a critical issue that still concerns much of the world today It was posited before that people of other races , more specifically those with colored skins , are inferior . At the onset of the American Civil War , the primary debate was the use of African Americans as slaves and their stature in society . More recently , the civil society particularly the institution of sports , was been struck with an issue involving the use of term that was regarded to

be derogatory to the Native American Indians - Redskins ' There are those , however , who believe that the use of the term is not derogatory . Instead , they believe that the term as used in sports is a celebration of the American Indian 's brevity

The term Redskin ' is derived from an old genocidal practice where Native American Indians are being scalped by bounty hunters (Muwakkil n .p . The scalps , which were bloody , were called redskins ' The term was also used to describe the color of the skin of American Indians and the paint they had used to cover their bodies during battles . Clearly the term is associated to a dark past of American Indians who were involved in an almost constant battle with the colonists . It is therefore not surprising that the term is considered by some to be a derogatory remark against the native settlers of the land , who were then considered to be savage creatures and were persecuted

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