Posted on 02/14/2013 6:46:07 AM PST by Zakeet
It's a new day with Washington's professional football team. The franchise finally has a quarterback, management that knows what it's doing and an owner who stays the hell out of the way. Mostly.
The optimism around the team hasn't been this high since Joe Gibbs won his first Super Bowl.
Everything is moving forward. The flowers are blooming, the future is bright and the team still has a racist nickname. Oh, wait.
As the franchise clearly takes a turn for the better and is now run by grownups, rejoining the big boys of the NFL, now would be the perfect time for the Washington Redskins to dump the ugly, stereotypical nickname that embarrasses them, their city and their league.
Instead, the team is doubling down on the nickname, publishing several remarkably tone-deaf pieces of propaganda on its website.
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It doesn't seem to matter to Washington officials that the most recent poll increasingly shows mass hatred of the name by American Indians. Indian Country Today, the largest Native American magazine, found that 81 percent of respondents found such images disparaging to Native Americans and 75 percent said the imagery violated anti-discrimination laws.
But beyond the polls comes a simple point: What's the right thing to do?
We've become so complacent with this ugly, racial name that it has almost become comfortable, like old leather.
As someone who grew up as a Washington fan and is also part American Indian, I've found the nickname to always be a dumb and offensive one. More important, I've always been perplexed by why the team, especially recently, has stuck with the nickname.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbssports.com ...
No doubt there are everyday names by the thousands that came from American Indians.
More importantly, FSU refused to budge one inch. They stood their ground by promptly telling the Indianapolis-based NCAA that they would leave the NCAA before they would change their name. I wish Republicans had that kind of backbone.
How about “Washington Brownshirts”?
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
If they want to be called the Honkeys I won’t mind.
Every freakin’ place name in America based on Indian words should be changed. It’s offensive, you know, using THEIR language.
No more Massachusetts, or Kentucky or anything.
How about the Washington Unindicted Co-conspirators?
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