Wednesday, June 2, 2021

The Needed Change Was Made, Now Where is the Acknowledgement? After Years of Claiming Offense and Concerted Efforts to Stop the Use of the Historic Eskimos Name...

 ...as well as a genuine, rigorous and sincere engagement by a professional club with limited marketing and political resources to right a societal, first nations wrong, the reaction from the Inuit is....crickets. The media, and Inuit, had been quick to throw Edmonton's CFL franchise under the bus for criticism of the prior and long time revered, proud Eskimos moniker, yet where are they now upon the change?  Especially and unfortunately after the timing of an announcement involving the horrific discovery of a mass grave from residential school days.

Here are the plain facts, with no reaction or feedback from those the change was meant to greatly help and move on from the past. 

https://youtu.be/GY8MiwPThLc

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/edmonton-ee-cfl-football-name-1.6048578


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