Celebrating Columbus Day, and enjoying the sports with its teams names and Mascots which exaggerate the characteristic of the race of Native American, such as red skin: Ward Churchill’s insistences of lack of respect for Native Americans, and both issues are close to our life in the U.S.A. In my opinion, I agree with his opinion which stop celebrating Columbus Day, however, both issues are another matter altogether from the point of view of race and justice. So I can not agree with stopping to use the team names and Mascots. I totally agree with his opinion about Columbus Day, because there is a clearly lack of respect for Native Americas as he explains. There is also contradiction of America’s action and history under the international law (Genocide).
As Jackson give a example, America’s posture in the first Nuremberg Trial was lack of common law, and the trial ended up as victory nation’s one-side win. This is very similar to the history in America which one-side robbed the land from Native Americans and made a lot of victims by immigrant. It is also similar to celebrating Columbus day because American history and its cruelty to Native Americans are conveniently neglected, there are nothing to fun and to celebrate for them. I feel that the winner just takes its all and control everything for feeling comfortable or enjoying by themselves.
These problems mean that law is not justice, what a victory race did is justice. Law is not always justice but Genocide is a fair to protect their culture, life and rights for minority of race, which are prohibited that these are one-side robbed by a victory nation at least.
In my opinion, I do not think that the team names and mascots should be stopped, because I think mascots insist the existence of Native Americans itself. I am Japanese, and I am not familiar to American history same as American. When I saw the sports team names and mascots at first time, I felt it is a kind of respect for them because the name of sports team or Mascots are supported to be chose as the symbol of strong and cool. That’s why I think it is not related that race and justice so much. The real problem for it is the U.S. which does not accept and admit the history under the international law is enjoying it without responsibility for Native Americans.The U.S. should throw away the wrong justice that a victory is justice, and should stop irresponsible behavior and event.
