"When the Yankees play baseball in the Bronx and the Knicks hit the court at Madison Square Garden, the two teams may belong to different sports, but they're both part of an exchange of taunts and slurs that no one remembers or cares about anymore.
The Knicks are short for the Knickerbockers, one of the derogatory names that English New Yorkers called the Dutch New Yorkers whom they had seized the city from. And the Dutch returned the favor by calling the Anglo newcomers, John Cheese or Jan Kees, which eventually became Yankee...."
Look out Cleveland (Indians) and Atlanta (Braves), you're next.
And even though Cleveland's football franchise (the Browns) is named for its first coach, Paul Brown, expect liberal faux concern for the feelings of illegal immigrants.
Look out Cleveland (Indians) and Atlanta (Braves), you're next.
And even though Cleveland's football franchise (the Browns) is named for its first coach, Paul Brown, expect liberal faux concern for the feelings of illegal immigrants.
The Indians were the Cleveland Spiders way back when [who picked that one?], and baseball's AL team named the Browns [St. Louis Browns] was so bad they had to move them to Baltimore, rename them the Orioles, and wait a decade or so for them to get good.
ZitatWhen people embrace hurtful names and transform them into a common identity, when New Yorkers of all backgrounds began calling themselves Knickerbockers because they associated it with the history of the city and when they jubilantly proclaimed themselves Yankees and when Redskins fans wear feathers, those are good things because they say that these things are part of our common identity. They don't divide us. They unite us.
That was how the old multiculturalism worked. And it worked well. Even liberals remember growing up in a hopeful America that played by those rules where there was unfairness, but that unfairness was being ground down by common contact. That America is being strangled to death by the political correctness of a liberal elite that controls the mediums of national dialogue through its death grip on academia and the airwaves, but has no understanding of how people really live their lives.