Posted on 08/10/2023 8:27:40 AM PDT by Red Badger
A Native American group has threatened a national boycott of the Washington Commanders unless the NFL team reverses course and changes its name back to the Washington Redskins.
The Native American Guardians Association (NAGA) wrote on Twitter — now X — that the group, along with its Founder and President Eunice Davidson, have sent a letter to the “Washington ‘Commanders’ Ownership & Key Leadership Formally Requesting The Team Revitalize it’s Relationship With The American Indian Community & Rightfully Change Their Name Back to ‘The Redskins.'”
In a letter that addressed what the group called the “cancel culture” against the Native American population and the erasure of its “steadfast role in American history, including serving as counselors to the Founding Fathers in the creation of the U.S. constitution.”
The letter talked about the history of the Washington football team and it’s relationship with the Native American community dating back to its 1933 season when they were named the Boston Redskins.
“At this moment in history, we are formally requesting that the team revitalize its relationship with the American Indian community by (i) changing the name back to ‘The Redskins’ which recognizes America’s original inhabitants and (ii) using the team’s historic name and legacy to encourage Americans to learn about, not cancel, the history of America’s tribes and our role in the founding of this Great Nation,” the letter read.
“Should we need to encourage a national boycott similar to what happened with Anheuser Busch (Bud Light) which is now down $27 billion (note, not one brick thrown, not one highway blocked, not one bridge burned) — WE WILL DO JUST THAT,” the letter added.
The letter closed out by noting that in 2023, this “oppression and arbitrary and capricious recognition of U.S. history and Constitutional rights is not acceptable.” The group also vowed to stand their ground because, if “you don’t acknowledge history, we are doomed to repeat it.”
In 2020, the team announced it was removing Redskins from its name and two years later announced the national professional football team would be called the Washington Commanders.
The name change came about from pressure from the cancel culture mob following the death of George Floyd and those who claimed that the term was racist and offensive to Native Americans.
PING!..................
Love it!
No...Hell no...White Liberal women demand that there is no going back to “Redskins”...
The Washington Post conducted a nationwide poll of Native Americans about 10 years ago (maybe more) about the Redskins name. 90% of the Native Americans either approved of the name, or didn’t care.
The Post staff admitted to being shocked by the results. Of course, the fact nobody outside of D.C. cared about the issue wasn’t suprising, it just showed Post staffers were isolated from the real world.
Anyway, ignoring the results, white libs continued their crusade against the Redskin name, basically telling Native Americans to sit down and shut up.
Is this the Babylon Bee?
My suggestion: call them the Skins, which is what people called them anyway.
My first thought as well.
Yeah, I had already looked when I posted that.
But, I HAD to say it!
Nope!................
Awesome! My long dead father loved the Redskins. Maybe because I was born in DC.
NOT “The Washington Round-Eyes”...
They should do the Syracuse college team too.
The new woke owner and the woke NFL will refuse, but the thought about erasing Native American heritage could be shaming and effective.
That's why the LEFT want it GONE....................
Ditto in Cleveland with the Indians/Challengers, although their logo was a bit condescending.
And Land of Lakes butter.
I am Scots-Irish and AniYunWiya mix...I say leave the nicknames alone as they were...Redskins, braves, etc...
Change the Army bases BACK to what they were...Fort Bragg, Fort Hood, etc...
If you cancel anything, cancel this “cancel culture”....
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
― George Orwell, 1984
GOOD! I was in the store and saw the Land O Lakes box with the empty spot where the Indian maiden used to be. What a sad carton.
White liberals are trying to erase the Native from America.
Yep...We are living that book today....
Shameful....
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