Rather than burden David Beans status with my own personal diatribe - I offer it here under my own status update: Thanks Phillip Hillaire and David Z Bean and Indian Country Today Media Network staff for the earlier: indiancountrytodaymedianetwork/2014/07/22/coeur-dalene-cancel-ted-nugent-concert-over-rockers-racist-remarks-155995 pointing also to Nugents 2013 bitter attack against Indian advocates of a name change for a National Football League (NFL) team: wnd/2013/04/a-tomahawk-chop-to-political-correctness/ . Perhaps, Nugent could appreciate a name change to the Washington Tedskins. But that would be asking too much of Dan Snyder. The easiest solution is not to change the name - but only to insist that it henceforth be given a Baba WaWa pronunciation: The Washington Wedskins! The fanatic fans could chant most exuberantly: Skin It Back! Skin It Back! Skin It Back, WEDSKINS!!! - even if not familiar with a John Cougar Mellencamp Go For It or 1977 Little Feat Waiting for Columbus etymology. [And who can forget Baba Wawas famous interview with the R-ticulate Hawaii-hatched Godzilla?] My own personal history with a Cleveland and D.C. name change challenge - as well as an abiding disgust for the detestable Ted Nugent - each dates back more than 40 years. In the early 1990s, I advised the National Park Service that I would not attend any Little Bighorn National Indian Memorial Monument meeting or dedication event to which they might invite or had invited Ted Nugents participation. My antipathy dated back to his draft-dodging antics for evasion of military service during the Vietnam War years - displaying himself more the absolute coward than representing any respectable conscientious objection. This is a common vein in the modern American right-winged warhawk. One of my later mentions of Ted Nugent came when an Oct. 15, 2008, TNT [The News Tribune - Tacoma] article Roaming Elk Trigger Talk of Hunt [subhead: The hundreds of elk that stamp around yards and chew up fruit trees in the mountain towns near Mount Rainier have given residents fits for years] immediately turned into a racist blog attacking treaty Indian hunting rights - capped by one bloggers solution: Ted Nugent for President. Under title, Indian Hunt & Horse Kill on the Washita, I responded: If George Armstrong Custer were alive today, he would be Ted Nugent! Ol George - who had presidential ambitions too - routinely overran Indian camps just before dawn while most were asleep and too drowsy to escape their own slaughter. On the Washita, Custer waited til the rising sun hit upon the American Flag that Black Kettle had been given with apology for the savagery committed against his band by the Colorado Volunteers in the earlier Sand Creek Massacre. On the Washita morning, George was not content with just killing the Indians. He ordered the throats slit of all 300 horses owned by dead and dying Indians. Ted White & Blue Nugent would have loved the animal Red Blood on the winter snow. Oh yeah, I remember Ted Nugent of the hippy yippy Ayers and Dohrn years, when he regaled his concert crowds and a fawning press with his proud tale of how hed evaded the draft and escaped military duty with others of his generation in Vietnam. Hed brag how hed accumulated his own defecation in his pants for the week before reporting as ordered to his local Draft Board - pants full. Of course they rejected him for service! This was a blog about pants, aint it?
Posted on: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 06:08:09 +0000
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