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Wab Kinew, a Winnipeg indigenous leader, says the name of a Morden, Man., hockey team is "defined in the dictionary as a racial slur," and he doesn't think it has any place in the public sphere.
Heather Francis, a Morden Manitoba city councillor, agrees with him.
"Merriam-Webster calls it 'usually offensive,' Cambridge calls it 'offensive' and 'dated,' and Oxford is the same. It's definitely a derogatory term," she said. "I think we need to change it."
Earlier this month she put a motion before Morden's city council, which would have seen the government send a letter to the team, asking them to change the name.
"I don't think anybody on the R-words hockey team is intending to offend anybody … but I think times have changed … and names and words have an impact," she said. "I'm not intending to provoke a fight."
The hockey club's president, Brent Meleck — who has been with the club since 1997 — said Francis's motion "is the first I've heard [that the name] is offensive to somebody around our community."
Meleck also said "it's funny, because I'm First Nations, and I don't think it's offensive at all."
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Wab Kinew, indigenous leader, says sports team name is a racial slur - Manitoba - CBC News
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Wab Kinew, a Winnipeg indigenous leader, says the name of a Morden, Man., hockey team is "defined in the dictionary as a racial slur," and he doesn't think it has any place in the public sphere.
Heather Francis, a Morden Manitoba city councillor, agrees with him.
"Merriam-Webster calls it 'usually offensive,' Cambridge calls it 'offensive' and 'dated,' and Oxford is the same. It's definitely a derogatory term," she said. "I think we need to change it."
Earlier this month she put a motion before Morden's city council, which would have seen the government send a letter to the team, asking them to change the name.
"I don't think anybody on the R-words hockey team is intending to offend anybody … but I think times have changed … and names and words have an impact," she said. "I'm not intending to provoke a fight."
The hockey club's president, Brent Meleck — who has been with the club since 1997 — said Francis's motion "is the first I've heard [that the name] is offensive to somebody around our community."
Meleck also said "it's funny, because I'm First Nations, and I don't think it's offensive at all."
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Wab Kinew, indigenous leader, says sports team name is a racial slur - Manitoba - CBC News