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<blockquote data-quote="smartcooky" data-source="post: 811051" data-attributes="member: 20605"><p>Oh Please spare me!!! That kind of Hollywood stereotyping of Native Americans died out with the demise of the "spaghetti western" in the early 1980s. The vast majority of movies made since those times have been positive and sympathetic to their plight and to the way they have been treated in the past. </p><p></p><p>If you really do want to see some movies that address the stereotypes (rather then using them), there are plenty to see...... <em>Windtalkers</em>, <em>Dances with Wolves</em>, <em>Smoke Signals</em> and especially <em>Black Robe. </em>But if you only ever see one movie about this issue, then make it <em>Winter in the Blood</em>. It deals with the issues facing reservational Native Americans in a harsh, uncompromising and ruthless manner, pulling no punches.</p><p></p><p>IMO, how people have been treated in the past is not a reason to go changing the name of a sports franchise. It might be a "hip" or trendy PC thing to do, but unless those actual people truly want it done (and as I said before, I would expect to see a major movement with a majority of the allegedly offended people in an outcry over the name) before I would support any such move. One professor pontificating from the lofty heights of her Ivory Tower does not make a good reason in my book; what it does is help to create a grievance industry. Take it from someone who lives in a country where the grievance industry is rife, and a small number of privileged members of a certain cultural grouping have their snouts firmly in the tough while the vast majority of the rest are disenfranchised.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="smartcooky, post: 811051, member: 20605"] Oh Please spare me!!! That kind of Hollywood stereotyping of Native Americans died out with the demise of the "spaghetti western" in the early 1980s. The vast majority of movies made since those times have been positive and sympathetic to their plight and to the way they have been treated in the past. If you really do want to see some movies that address the stereotypes (rather then using them), there are plenty to see...... [I]Windtalkers[/I], [I]Dances with Wolves[/I], [I]Smoke Signals[/I] and especially [I]Black Robe. [/I]But if you only ever see one movie about this issue, then make it [I]Winter in the Blood[/I]. It deals with the issues facing reservational Native Americans in a harsh, uncompromising and ruthless manner, pulling no punches. IMO, how people have been treated in the past is not a reason to go changing the name of a sports franchise. It might be a "hip" or trendy PC thing to do, but unless those actual people truly want it done (and as I said before, I would expect to see a major movement with a majority of the allegedly offended people in an outcry over the name) before I would support any such move. One professor pontificating from the lofty heights of her Ivory Tower does not make a good reason in my book; what it does is help to create a grievance industry. Take it from someone who lives in a country where the grievance industry is rife, and a small number of privileged members of a certain cultural grouping have their snouts firmly in the tough while the vast majority of the rest are disenfranchised. [/QUOTE]
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