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the name Indians was offensive to Native AmericansI'm pretty sure Native Americans were more concerned with being genocided by invading Europeans than the fact that some of those early explorers were pretty stupid and thought they were in India
Cleveland Cockroaches, Washington Worms, Dallas Donkeys etc.That doesn't bode one bit well for Houston . . .
Native Americans need to be consigned to forgotten history, primitive savages whose oral traditions are all fairy stories.Proves my point. You can always counter one woke argument with an equally woke argument.
HashAttack2 It's even more ridiculous than you say...the x-tra with Christmas is great.
A Christmas ...
Highland Fleet Lute A Christmas commercial with a white mother, a black father, one Hindoo son, one Chinese son, and two daughters: one Sikh and one Muslim.& HA2 R et al. It truly has gone beyond inanity; words do fail.
However, activists in recent years called for a name change, arguing that the name Indians was offensive to Native Americans.Perfect bullshit. I'm waiting to see what happens with the reincarnated Indian motorcycle company
They should have changed it to Aboriginals.Doesn't have much of a ring to it.
The “trolley dodger” name was first applied to the Brooklyn baseball team in 1895. Some sources incorrectly date the first use of “trolley dodger” to 1891, when the team moved to its new ballpark, Eastern Park, which is incorrectly said to have been surrounded by several trolley lines. In 1891, however, there would have been no need to “dodge” trolleys. All of the trolley cars in Brooklyn in 1891 were slow-moving, horse-drawn trolleys; no dodging necessary.
That would all change in 1892, however, when the first of many electric trolley lines were installed on Brooklyn’s streets. The new, faster, more-powerful vehicles barrelling through crowds of people raised in a horse-and-buggy culture was a recipe for disaster. It took three years of maiming and death, a trolley strike, and a trolley reform movement for the “Brooklyns” or “Bridegrooms” (as they were known at the time) to earn their new nickname, the “Trolley Dodgers.”
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