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.
They have a website: https://www.nagaeducation.org/ and they are based in Devil’s Lake, North Dakota. Think I will send them a few $$.
It was supposed to be a warning book, not an instruction manual....................
If we don’t get it right in 2024, we are gone, gone, gone....
Someone noted the irony of attempting to virtue signal by removing the Native American from the land.
I love it!
And yet they still attempt it and you’re right it’s all about virtue signaling.
I called one out on his racism when he started virtue signaling about team names. I simply remarked about why he he had no issue white group names but targeted Native American ones.
Like most liberals he really hadn’t thought about it at all.
Of course when teams were named Redskin or Braves it was a purposefully degrading name. People always want their teams to have degrading names.
Like the Army names it’s choppers Apache and Blackhawk. It’s to instill laughter in our enemies. /S
Woke effing idiots.
The U of Utah asked the Ute Tribe if they were okay with the team’s name Utes. Approval was overwhelming.
Leftists ruin everything.
0 chance
And Jeep names their vehicle ‘Cherokee’ so people won’t buy them.....................
Yeah. Like my old 1993 Jeep Cherokee, I was so ashamed to drive it, it’s only up to 370,000+ miles. I’m still driving it with a sack with eyeholes over my head. /s
Haha, the chickens are coming home to roost.
I was up in Vermont at a museum last week, and there was an exhibit of various folk art items, one of them was a beautiful carved wooden bust of a Native American warrior.
It had extremely handsome features that were not in any way caucasian...they were fully Native American.
The placard said it was an example of racist portrayals of American Indians that were common for that time.
I was astonished. I could not see a damn thing racist about it except the card itself, which was purporting to be able to judge on behalf on Native Americans what was racist and what was not.
I would defy them to find a single Native American who failed to find that portrayal both authentic and flattering.
OMG! This is pathetically amusing and I would cry if it wasn’t so funny!
Indians want the name, “Redskins,” to be gone.
Oh, wait! Now there are Indians who want the name, “Redskins,” to be reinstated!
God, what a country this is, huh?
It would be a hoot if Washington NFL reverted to Redskins, but used a redskin potato as its logo. Just thinking outside the box here.
Hey, they can’t do that (make the potato the emblem)
It might be considered the President’s Team...
LOL
The visual with the sack with eyeholes...
Ping
Whoa! Someones on the war path.
Sorry, but I think it’s funny and I am of Cherokee heritage.
I wish they would change it back, but they won’t.
Leftists never give in, give up or retreat.
The Cowboys/Redskins Rivalry is over. Dead and gone. Killed by Wokeism.............
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