Moheezy
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NT, I have been living in Ottawa, Canada for almost 5 years and the entire city was excited to finally have a basketball team (even though it's just the NBL, but still!). Anyway, they finally revealed the team name at a press conference yesterday and almost everybody loved the name...almost everybody.
Now a small group of aboriginals did not find the name appropriate. In fact, they found it offensive in some ways. So now the team would have to revoke it's name less than 24 hours after the reveal. Read the article below.
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Ottawa's new basketball team will be changing their name from TomaHawks after an outcry from Ottawa's aboriginal community, the team's co-owner said on CBC Radio's Ottawa Morning.
Bytown Sports and Entertainment president Gus Takkale told Robyn Bresnahan that he wants his fledgling sports team to respect the community they represent.
"Yes, we are changing the name," said Takkale. "At the end of the day, we want to do the right thing for our community."
"We don't want to connect our brand like that," he said.
Ian Campeau — an Ottawa aboriginal and a DJ with local group A Tribe Called Red — was also in the CBC Ottawa studio at the time. He applauded the move and said it showed leadership.
Campeau had said he was indignant on Tuesday when the team name was unveiled.
"It sets Ottawa back almost thirty years, when the NCAA is on its way to remove names like this. Here we are starting new teams with names like TomaHawk, it's...it's backwards," he had said a day earlier.
Takkale had defended the name, saying it was not meant to appropriate First Nations culture. He said they took the name from a type of slam dunk in basketball, and not from the axe used by First Nations people, and noted that the logo was a basketball with wings.
Takkale said he had consulted with aboriginal groups before unveiling the logo and name, but declined to specify on Ottawa Morning with whom he had consulted.
The team's inaugural season is to begin in November at Scotiabank Place. The league also features teams from Windsor, London, Oshawa, Montreal, Moncton, Saint John, Halifax and Summerside.
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I honestly don't understand how anyone would take offense to that name. when in fact, that name and logo was really meant to represent a Tomahawk dunk. I mean, the logo itself is basically a basketball with wings!
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And even if it was meant to be a double entendre, how is that racist in any way? That's even less racist that calling a team the Yankees, Vikings, ********. How is naming a team after an axe insulting?
This is just silly.
(vent session over)
Article link below:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottaw...awks-basketball-team-name-change.html?cmp=rss
Now a small group of aboriginals did not find the name appropriate. In fact, they found it offensive in some ways. So now the team would have to revoke it's name less than 24 hours after the reveal. Read the article below.
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Ottawa's new basketball team will be changing their name from TomaHawks after an outcry from Ottawa's aboriginal community, the team's co-owner said on CBC Radio's Ottawa Morning.
Bytown Sports and Entertainment president Gus Takkale told Robyn Bresnahan that he wants his fledgling sports team to respect the community they represent.
"Yes, we are changing the name," said Takkale. "At the end of the day, we want to do the right thing for our community."
"We don't want to connect our brand like that," he said.
Ian Campeau — an Ottawa aboriginal and a DJ with local group A Tribe Called Red — was also in the CBC Ottawa studio at the time. He applauded the move and said it showed leadership.
Campeau had said he was indignant on Tuesday when the team name was unveiled.
"It sets Ottawa back almost thirty years, when the NCAA is on its way to remove names like this. Here we are starting new teams with names like TomaHawk, it's...it's backwards," he had said a day earlier.
Takkale had defended the name, saying it was not meant to appropriate First Nations culture. He said they took the name from a type of slam dunk in basketball, and not from the axe used by First Nations people, and noted that the logo was a basketball with wings.
Takkale said he had consulted with aboriginal groups before unveiling the logo and name, but declined to specify on Ottawa Morning with whom he had consulted.
The team's inaugural season is to begin in November at Scotiabank Place. The league also features teams from Windsor, London, Oshawa, Montreal, Moncton, Saint John, Halifax and Summerside.
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I honestly don't understand how anyone would take offense to that name. when in fact, that name and logo was really meant to represent a Tomahawk dunk. I mean, the logo itself is basically a basketball with wings!
View media item 290670
And even if it was meant to be a double entendre, how is that racist in any way? That's even less racist that calling a team the Yankees, Vikings, ********. How is naming a team after an axe insulting?
This is just silly.
(vent session over)
Article link below:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottaw...awks-basketball-team-name-change.html?cmp=rss
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