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Seattle Times: We won't use Redskins name in our newspaper
CBS Sports ^ | June 19, 2014 10:47 am ET | Josh Katzowitz

Posted on 06/19/2014 8:41:15 AM PDT by ConservingFreedom

The Redskins got a flurry of bad news Wednesday when the U.S. Patent Office canceled the team's trademark registration, because the team name is “disparaging to Native Americans." Basically, it means that the team could lose its federally trademarked protections and could hasten the franchise to change the name, depending on how much pressure the rest of the league puts on Washington for a potential loss of revenue.

While Miami University, now the RedHawks but formerly known as the Redskins, tried to offer some advice on Wednesday, the sports editor of the Seattle Times, Don Shelton, is taking a more drastic step.

The newspaper, in effect, won't allow the Redskins name to grace its pages any longer.

Why exactly?

"It's time to ban the use of 'Redskins,' the absurd, offensive and outdated name of the NFL team in Washington, D.C.," Shelton wrote. "Past time, actually ... We're banning the name for one reason: It's offensive. Far from honoring Native Americans, the term colors an entire race. Many Native Americans consider it an outdated label placed on their people."

The Times isn't the first influential media outlet to take these steps. TheMMQB.com doesn't use the term and neither do the Kansas City Star, the Oregonian, the Orange County Register and the San Francisco Chronicle.

Shelton explained that when he was hired as sports editor five years ago, he convinced himself that a decision that had been made 15 years earlier to minimize the use of the name was good enough. According to Shelton, the Times' policy was to allow the Redskins name once per article and not to use it in headlines or photo captions.

But that stance is no longer appropriate in the eyes of Shelton, who ends his piece writing that he's happy for readers to express their opinions. Yet ...

"Still, your feedback won't change our decision," Shelton wrote. "Some things are too important to be put to a vote."


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: liberalmedia; nfl; redskins
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To: Star Traveler

We need to rename Oklahoma, I suggest Norte Tejas.


101 posted on 06/19/2014 10:34:34 AM PDT by razorback-bert (Due to the high price of ammo, no warning shot will be fired.)
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To: DesertRhino

“Still, your feedback won’t change our decision,” Fuhrer Adolf Hitler wrote. “Some things are too important to be put to a vote.”

Fascism then, fascism now.


102 posted on 06/19/2014 10:41:08 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("In the modern world, Muslims are living fossils.")
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To: ConservingFreedom

I’m offended by the news rags name (Times). In the future, I just refer to it as the Seattle newspaper.


103 posted on 06/19/2014 11:14:10 AM PDT by QT3.14 (NSA: The only government entity that cares what you say.)
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To: Disambiguator
"I like to refer to myself as "honkadelic."

So you're a "honkey" with LSD flashbacks? Still seeing traces when you move your hand?

Okay. I'll refer to myself as "Tonka hunka burnin love." Oops, just realized that in the Costner movie, "Dances With Wolves", that "tonka" was the word for buffalo. So as not to disparage the Sioux, I'll change that to "Buffalota hunka burnin love". Sioux translation: "Mu-ah lay-wall hu-lah tah-tohn'-kah." I love to love buffalo. BTW, no dis-respect to the Sioux. Hope they get the joke which is on me. If not too bad. I can laugh at myself all day for loving buffalo. Har.

Probably need to shorten it up though and not offend anybody's sensibilities. Let's see: "RAINbowMan". Yes, I see colors...and possibly gay flags since I work out and brush my hair and wear short shorts ...har! Let my flags fly freely because I have nothing else to do other than make a point of my sexual preference. Oops, I offended again. Damn, someone needs to stop me...

104 posted on 06/19/2014 11:46:13 AM PDT by A Navy Vet (An Oath is Forever)
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Latent indignation???

This is all about the Leftists getting their way — nothing more.


105 posted on 06/19/2014 11:48:20 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: llevrok
"No mention that the name “seattle” is a white man’s bastardization of a Dkhw’Duw’Absh (Duwamish) chief’s name (sealth)".

That and Los Angeles (The Angels for short) was named from official documents of Governor Felipe de Neve of Spain, Commandant General de la Croix and Viceroy Bucareli claimed the settlement was simply to be named El Pueblo de la Reina de Los Angeles (The Town of the Queen of the Angels.) There was a longer name originally.

Early Los Angeles was a classic example of the ruling class over-lording the peasant working class, which were mostly native americans. Over time, the Spanish got so rich, powerful, and dominating that they also subjugated the lower-class Spaniards.

Los Angeles has an ugly history. When other Eurpeons took control, they built it into a prosperous city that was once a shining light. Now, it has reverted back to Mexican (Spanish/Indian) tribal conflict, not to mention the wars with the blacks.

At least in the late 1700's to late 1800's, the peasants worked hard for their subsistence. Now, the so-called peasants are all about EBT cards and what they can get from others.

LA is a frigging mess and many areas look like a foreign country. I know because I grew up just miles south. I was actually born in the Queen of Angels hospital in the middle of LA. Now, I wouldn't go near it.

106 posted on 06/19/2014 12:28:08 PM PDT by A Navy Vet (An Oath is Forever)
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To: par4

Excellent! I can just imagine the sports page headlines ...


107 posted on 06/19/2014 12:31:59 PM PDT by glennaro
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To: A Navy Vet
So you're a "honkey" with LSD flashbacks?

Nope, mostly monochromatic - varying shades of white (or rather, pink and other colors, and the intensities depend on how much I've been out in the sun).

I do own a copy of "Disraeli Gears," however.

108 posted on 06/19/2014 1:07:11 PM PDT by Disambiguator (#cornedbeef)
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To: wideawake

The Washington NFL franchise should just quietly change their name to Washington Red Pins (as in pinning an opponent to the mat or in moving the pin or yard markers). And they should make a likeness of Jim Thorpe, or Cochise, or whatever Indian Tribe lived in the Washington area historically as their mascot.


109 posted on 06/19/2014 1:57:00 PM PDT by WayneLusvardi (It's more complex than it might seem)
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Washington Red Tapes was mY original. But now I like the....

DC Drunken Blanketasses


110 posted on 06/19/2014 2:03:02 PM PDT by Rockpile
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To: ConservingFreedom
” Miami University, now the RedHawks but formerly known as the Redskins.....”

I still think that changing the logo of my alma mater from Redskins to Redhawks was one of the most cowardly and despicable things the university ever did. When I was a student there, we felt we were honoring the Miami tribe by using that name. However, political correctness, not to mention cowardice, carried the day.

Note that Miami University still owns the copyright on the old logo, so no one can make Redskins memorabilia. I'm hanging on to mine, over 60 years later.

111 posted on 06/19/2014 4:22:44 PM PDT by JoeFromSidney (Book: Resistance to Tyranny. Buy from Amazon.)
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To: minnesota_bound

Massachusetts itself was named after a tribe yet the link doesn’t even show that fact.

Weird.

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112 posted on 06/19/2014 4:28:11 PM PDT by Mears
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To: Jack Hydrazine

How about a team name that honors our current President: The Obama Idjits. The mascot should resemble Obama scratching his butt


113 posted on 06/19/2014 6:45:19 PM PDT by Irish Queen ("Don't fence me in")
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To: dragonblustar

I guess the Chicago Blackhawks will be undergoing a name change soon? Of course, with Bammy hailing from Chicago,
I wonder if the Blackhawks have been granted an exception from this persecution...


114 posted on 06/19/2014 6:54:12 PM PDT by Delta Dawn (Fluent in two languages: English and cursive.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

I like it! LOl...


115 posted on 06/20/2014 7:00:17 AM PDT by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo....Sum Pro Vita - Modified Descartes)
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