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.
“My suggestion: call them the Skins, which is what people called them anyway.”
Given that their home base is DC, “Reds” is probably more appropriate than “Skins”,
I have an unopened bottle of Old Coke commemorating the Skins’ SB 17 victory. I’ll never open it, and I can’t bear to part with it. Any guesses how much it’s worth?
I heard a comedian on Carolla talk about meeting Dexter Manley in prison, and what a nice guy he is. He’ll always have my gratitude for crushing Danny White.
It’s DC.. Foreskins would be more appropriate.
It would be an interesting exercise to find those responsible for instigating the initial complaint. Fix those responsible and scrutinize those hat hold sway over American businesses.
That would not be kosher.................
This is a truly new one!!!!
I thought “Washington Football Team” was the greatest eff you to the name-change culture. It was funny as hell and they should have kept it.
The more liberal folks skipped the “Washington” and referred to them as “The Nation’s Capital Football Team”
I'm not convinced that was ever true.
I think it was mainly pudgy middle-aged blonde White women with wedge haircuts ...
PETA doesn’t want animal named teams.
Liberals don’t want minority named teams.
The world is upside down...............
And either pink, blue or green highlights.
I think the Indians should have been more upset that their mascot for all those years was a black guy.
RIP Chief Zee and Crazy Ray.
‘Commanders’ is about as uninspiring and dull as you could get..................
Ahhh ... you KNOW who and what I’m talking about!
I am part Native American.... And I have NO problem with going back to Redskins..!!!!!
Zing!
Liberalism receives groin kick.
Add the baseball team in Cleveland to the list. You know, the one formerly named in honor of the first Amer-Indian (my preferred term, since everyone born here is “native”) to play in the majors. I’ve got two tribes in my ancestry and refuse to follow a team named for a pair of concrete statues on a decaying bridge.
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