The proposal for a new dress code comes after two Native Americans were detained during a Giants game last month after asking a fan to remove a headdress they found disrespectful.It may be worthy of note to point out just where these "culturally insensitive" fans are displaying their "culturally insensitive attire". AT&T Park was "originally named Pacific Bell Park, then SBC Park in 2003 after SBC Communications acquired Pacific Bell, the stadium was ultimately christened AT&T Park in 2006 following SBC's merger with AT&T."
If approved, the new policy could be a first for a major-league sports franchise, American Indian activist Suzan Shown Harjo told USA Today. The headdress incident happened during Native American Heritage night on June 23 at AT&T Park when the Giants were hosting the San Diego Padres.
So, what's the big deal Lem? The Giants baseball team plays their home games at a park named AT&T. Whoopty Doo
Well... It just so happens that approximately seven minutes away from AT&T park, at 611 Folsom St, there is a room 641A which acquired certain "disrespectful" and "culturally insensitive" notoriety, operated and maintained by AT&T.
The room commenced operations of a "disrespectful" and "culturally insensitive" nature in 2003; about 3 years after the opening of AT&T park.
Room 641A is a telecommunication interception facility operated by AT&T for the U.S. National Security AgencyWhile I, AT&T may listen in and/or read your private communications at will... 'just 'don't bring your disrespectful, cultural insensitivity to my ball games...', to paraphrase another notoriously "disrespectful" and "culturally insensitive" Tea Toddler A-hole :-P
Room 641A is located in the SBC Communications building at 611 Folsom Street, San Francisco, three floors of which were occupied by AT&T before SBC purchased AT&T. The room was referred to in internal AT&T documents as the SG3 [Study Group 3] Secure Room. It is fed by fiber optic lines from beam splitters installed in fiber optic trunks carrying Internet backbone traffic and, as analyzed by J. Scott Marcus, a former CTO for GTE and a former adviser to the FCC, has access to all Internet traffic that passes through the building, and therefore "the capability to enable surveillance and analysis of internet content on a massive scale, including both overseas and purely domestic traffic." (read more)
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I wonder if the authorities in SF plan to police the Gay Pride parade for cultural appropriation?
Will gay men be prohibited from dressing as nuns so as to avoid offending my Catholic sensibilities?
Only Catholics should be allowed to dress as nuns.
Far from confronting some idiot who finds excitement in wearing a bunch of bird feathers on his head, if I were a "Native American" I'd do everything I could to disassociate myself from the stone age, preliterate, and animist culture of my ancestors.
That was them. That's not me.
Maybe they could open a casino.
The trouble with indian heritage is that everything about indian heritage is laughable.
Elizabeth Warren will be confused by this rule.
Indians are making damn sure they are wiped from our memory. Since no one can use their words or clothes, very soon nothing will be said of them at all.
Gone, into history's dustbin. Shit, the only reason we know as much as we know about them is the insatiable geekiness of white historians, and the American public found them fascinating.
Well, fuck off, then.
Wisconsin should start changing all those insensitive city and river names. I declare Oconomowoc to be Beer Piss River, for a start.
You call it corn. We call it maize.
Where your finger walks will not stay .... AT&T Casinos.
"Native Americans" is a made up name - how do we really know who are the true native Americans? Afterall, when those alleged native Americans got here they probably had to kill a group of people who was already here.
I think that is how the world worked for all but the last 100 years or so.
ATT smokers.
Bah.
Like I said before... if we just totally disappear any reference to Native Americans from our society, then no one will be offended anymore.
I *do not* know what these people think they want. Sure, it's stupid to see a bunch of sports fans in feathered headdresses, but "stupid" doesn't equal "offensive" unless you're looking for things to be offended for.
So take it all away and what you've got is pretty much invisibility, which strikes me as not-an-improvement.
Lem, Are you at Beale and Bryant?
I have seen some wild culturally insensitive things on Folsom street.
I tell you what they should ban. Those stupid block of cheese that
idiots from Green Bay wear on their empty heads.
Talk about offensive!
Nobody ever stands up for the Swiss!
I don't know if it still is, but maize used to be a Crayola crayon color name. Also Indian Red, I think. Also there was Flesh, but it was ugly if used to color a white person, so left white skin uncolored.
Does this dress code mean that Cher can never again sing the National Anthem at AT&T Park?
That will not sit well in San Francisco.
Seriously people, there is no such thing as Native Americans. When the deity phx thinks doesn't exist created the earth, the area we now call America had no people.
Today's Native Americans came from Asia. Science figured this out using reasoning and evidence.
First is the process of elimination. There are no hominids that developed in the Americas. This is the family that include humans and apes. Therefore, any humans had to come from elsewhere.
Second is physical evidence. The appearance of humans in the Americas coincides with the end of the last ice age and the existence of the Bering land bridge. Further, the only other routes to the Americas are either across the pack ice from Europe or by ocean. Neither has any compelling evidence that man first used such routes. To reach Australia requires crossing 60 miles of open water. Europe to the America requires thousand of miles. While such routes cannot be ruled out, the number that would have arrived in this manner would be extremely small.
Carbon14 dating shows that man appears between 15,000 to 32,000 years age. This coincides with the existence of Beringia, the land that made up the land bridge.
Next is teeth. Native Americans have what is called shovel shaped teeth. Basically the back of the front teeth are curved, much like a shovel. This is a trait that they share with people in Northwestern Asia.
There's the fact that Native American languages show they belong to there groupings: PaleoIndians ( Pai, Pima, and Pueloans); Athapaskans (Navaho and Apache) and Eskimo-Aleut (Inuits). The roots of these languages show commonality with Asian Tongues.
Lastly there's physical remains. Like teeth shape, the earliest skeletons of Paleoamericans show that they were of Mongolian stock. That is Asian. Even today the blood grouping of Native Americans and even some of the inherited diseases show and Asian origin. Even the Kennewick Man, dated to 9,300 appears to be from Asia.
To sum it up, people didn't developed in the Americas; they had one main route through Beringia to get there; and the earliest remains show they were of Asian decent.
There are theories that people came across the Atlantic either along the ice pack or straight across the ocean. There's another theory that man came across from Australia. However, physical evidence is scanty at best.
So, got that? They were Asians, named "Indians" by Italians who thought they had discovered a different part of India. Then they named the country after an Italian.
It could be worse. The first arrival form Europe could have been an explorer named Dumbrowski.
Anyhow, AT&T Park better not be offending any Asians, which is probably the group that makes AT&T's shit actually run.
I was going to do the tomahawk Chop in my Full Indian Headdress, but I that's out now.
Guess I'll just have to settle for rooting for the Padres in my fake Priest outfit.
At least that way no one will be offended.
Safest sports names: Animals and mythical figures.
Suggested sports names:
WNBA - The Kansas City "Squaws"
LA Clippers - "The Brown Skins".
Hofstra - "The studious Jews"
I call Ryan Braun "The Juicin' Jew.
So a Village People event at a Giants game is out of the question? Damn, it seemed like a good fit.
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