{"id":150822,"date":"2014-10-14T23:10:43","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T03:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/uncategorized\/racist-names-meet-the-first-amendment-in-minneapolis.php"},"modified":"2014-10-14T23:10:43","modified_gmt":"2014-10-15T03:10:43","slug":"racist-names-meet-the-first-amendment-in-minneapolis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/first-amendment-2\/racist-names-meet-the-first-amendment-in-minneapolis.php","title":{"rendered":"Racist names meet the First Amendment in Minneapolis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>    Minneapolis officials are reportedly considering legal action    to prevent the Washington Redskins name from being used at TCF    Bank Stadium.  <\/p>\n<p>    The Minnesota Daily reports that the city    attorney is investigating whether the city has legal authority    to ban the football teams name and logo.  <\/p>\n<p>      I have my doubts, said Cam Gordon, who represents the      University and surrounding areas on the City Council.    <\/p>\n<p>      He said there might be issues with the ban violating freedom      of speech. And at a council committee meeting late last      month, the councilman called the issue a minefield.    <\/p>\n<p>    You think?  <\/p>\n<p>    Its the most horrific name in sports history, said Clyde    Bellecourt, founder of the Minneapolis-based American Indian    Movement.  <\/p>\n<p>    Hes right, of course. It is.  <\/p>\n<p>    And hate speech can be suppressed without violating the First    Amendment if it causes the listener to react violently.    But, the Supreme Court has made clear that people still have a    right to hateful speech.  <\/p>\n<p>    That officials in Minnesota are being pressed to challenge that    right is not without some irony because Minnesota has had more    than its share of assaults on the First Amendment.  <\/p>\n<p>    A 1992 case before the Supreme Court defined the difference    between hateful acts of hateful speech when it    overturned the conviction of a teenager for burning a cross on    the lawn of an African American St. Paul family.  <\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>See the original post here:<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.mprnews.org\/newscut\/2014\/10\/racist-names-meet-the-first-amendment-in-minneapolis\" title=\"Racist names meet the First Amendment in Minneapolis\">Racist names meet the First Amendment in Minneapolis<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Minneapolis officials are reportedly considering legal action to prevent the Washington Redskins name from being used at TCF Bank Stadium.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/first-amendment-2\/racist-names-meet-the-first-amendment-in-minneapolis.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[261459],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-amendment-2"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150822"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}