Sad thing is that "red skin" was originally applied to a tribe on the east coast because they colored their skin with red ocher.
"Indian" is also a misnomer and some consider a slur, but I recently found out that some tribes have taken the name.
If we become more sensitive to anything, you're correct, we will end up with someone objecting to "Bears", "Lions", "Cowboys", etc.
This has got to stop.
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COTEP #719
"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed one." - Thomas Jefferson quoting Cesare Beccaria
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