Posted on 08/10/2023 3:50:24 PM PDT by TBP
WASHINGTON (TND) — In a letter to the Washington Commanders Monday, the Native American Guardians Association (NAGA) demanded a meeting with the team’s new ownership to discuss a controversial name change.
The letter is the latest step in the organization’s “Reclaim the Name” campaign, which seeks to bring back the team’s previously retired “Redskins” monicker. A petition supporting the effort boasts over 60,000 signatures as of Monday night, a figure which matches the seating capacity of the Commanders’ FedEx Field.
NAGA’s President of Global Impact Campaigns, Healy Baumgardner, told The National Desk Monday that the organization has repeatedly ignored such meeting requests.
“We attempted to have an open dialogue with the now Washington Commanders since they made the name change several years ago with no response by them to have a conversation,” she said. “We felt that it was time to apply public pressure.”
Though the name change was done in an effort not to alienate Native American football fans, NAGA says the majority of Native Americans feel disrespected by the change.
“In terms of changing the name Redskins, the Native American community was never asked how they felt about it,” Baumgardner said. “Once again, we are met by closed doors and no open dialogue with the Commanders leadership or the executives.”
In its three-page letter, NAGA cites lawsuits, polls and general sentiment supporting their argument that Native Americans do not find “Redskin” to be a derogatory term. To close its message, the organization punctuated its meeting invitation by threatening to push for a boycott if their requests continued to go unheard.
Should we need to encourage a national boycott similar to what happened with Anheuser Busch 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 reads.
Voicing her frustration with Commanders leadership, Baumgardner suggested the organization hire U.S. women's soccer player Megan Rapinoe, whose team recently failed to secure a win against Sweden in the World Cup.
Nobody wanted the name changed except a few self-righteous, holier-than-thou #woke activists.
I call them “white saviors”.
Careful how you say it!
If they just scalped two or three Board of Directors, the others would fall into line with their demands.
Native Americans vs. DC political zealots on an ideological mission
I’ve seen this play before. I know how it turns out.
So they don’t like being used as political pawns.
Apt.. TBP adds "“white saviors” ...
To make the picture a little more detailed --- "a few self-righteous, holier-than-thou, "white savior" #woke activists, working for the progressives of the Democrat Party, and cheered on the the namby-pamby RINOs.
Change the name to the Washington Crusaders! ;-)
I’d support the Indians but I already boycott NFL for the last few seasons.
Old Get Smart episode had “Indians” threatening a widespread and total takeover of the United States.
Agent 99 (Barbara Feldon): “Can’t we offer some sort of compromise?”
The Chief (Ed Platt): “Like what?”
Agent 99: “Oh, maybe offer them one of the smaller states they can have instead. They might take one. Maybe Kansas.”
The Chief (looking serious): “Would you?”
I was never “offended” by the word ‘Redskin’.
I am, a half-breed Mojave.
Not a member of a more cinematographic tribe, like the Lakota, or a tribe with a more well-known history, like the Iroquois.
The name Redskins was meant to honor Indians. Very few Indians were offended, and only if they were brainwashed. White Leftists pretend to have been offended.
I, too, am half Scots-Irish and AniYunWiya...I have NEVER felt embarrassed or offended by the nicknames....
You just posted what I was thinking.
Can’t re-state it enough. Indians are proud of being called Indians and all the other variations that give liberals the vapors. This is nothing more than another woke campaign intended to create division in our society.
People really don’t know their heritage as much as they think. I had a wing in the family that thought they were half German, but come to find out, their “German” grandfather was born three years before his German dad married his mom. Who the father really was? Who knows?
It would be interesting to know but I don’t want the coppers to have my DNA.
I bet it does make some interesting reunions...
I have always said my Scots-Irish and AniYunWiya background made me a “drunk Indian”...LOL
You know, we could be close...Chahta and AniYunWiya intermarried a whole lot...We were very close knit tribes...
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