Does Rooting for the Washington "Redskins" make you a Racist?

No. It merely connotes misplayed loyalty to a terrible football team. When the team name is mentioned, almost all informed fans think of huge, mostly white guys - "the hogs", the team's famous group of NFL Hall of Fame "offensive" linemen, during the Coach Gibbs' glory years.

I return to this possibly controversial topic of what words reflect presumed racist thoughts of the speaker because the PC Police are again on the warpath. So, its now time to circle the wagons. The state legislature of North Dakota, in conjunction w/. the NCAA, recently forced the University of North Dakota to drop a near century old sports nickname - Fighting Sioux. (Fighting Sioux expressly adopted to connote courageous warriors who often feasted on hordes of slain "Bison", nickname of the rival ND State University) replaced the prior nomenclature - "The Flickertails". No word on whether the University will go all retro, with their tails flickering between their legs, to inspire their sports teams and loyal fans.

A similar ambush was recently unleashed by the NCAA on the University of Illinois "Fighting Illini", as that sports nickname was deemed offensive to the Illini Indian Tribe. Regrettably, the NCAA failed to acknowledge that dead people feel no offense. The Illini tribe has left the arena with Elvis. There are no surviving members of the Illini Indian Tribe.

Also regrettably, the Florida State Seminoles have been formally exempted from this NCAA "across the board" ban on "hostile and abusive" sports nicknames. Millions of dollars in license fees are paid to the Seminole tribe by the University to make "benign and positive" the violent thrusting of a flaming battle spear toward the enemy side line by a war painted, horse riding student mascot at every home FSU football game.

So, when the NCAA finds no offense to tens of thousands of peaceful, living Seminoles and simultaneously finds egregious offense to the non-existent Illini tribe members, some college lessons of high minded morality and economics are more offensive than others. Just saying ...