Red Lining

Liberal name games didn't work:

In 2004 and again in 2016, nine out of ten self-identified Native Americans told pollsters they weren’t offended by the name “Redskins.” That’s not a typo: 90%. It's hard to deny reality, but if some people try hard enough, they can create their own. And even when new polls tried to shift the language, using “harmful” and “problematic” instead of “offended,” the results barely changed. Because those polls were inconvenient, they get buried under that new reality. But the truth? The outcry didn’t come from reservations. It came from white guilt in glass towers. From people who turn Native culture into mascots of their own activism. Who never met a tribe they couldn’t talk over. ... You can’t steamroll cultural memory by trying to delete decades of pride with a memo from HR or a threat from a shoe company. People remember. They hold on. They pass it down. And the more you tell them to forget, the more stubborn they become. Now, with lawsuits piling up from Native American groups like the Native American Guardians Association in 2023, we’re seeing the fight flip. They say erasing names like Redskins is actually the erasure of Indigenous culture, not its defense. It denies real tribes the right to be honored in public life. Hard to argue with that when tribal leaders are saying it themselves.

White liberals don't speak for those who aren't offended...