Native American group threatens boycott 'similar to Anheuser Busch' if Commanders ignore name petition

WJLA-TV Channel 7 ^ | August 7th 2023 | JACKSON WALKER

[TBP]

The media would repeatedly poll Native Americans on the name and they would overwhelmingly oppose change, and they would overwhelmingly NOT be offended. So the media would whitesplain to them why they were actually offended, but just didn't know it.

Nobody wanted the name changed except a few self-righteous, holier-than-thou #woke activists.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

I call them “white saviors”.

[ealgeone]

Careful how you say it!

[BipolarBob]

If they just scalped two or three Board of Directors, the others would fall into line with their demands.

[PGR88]

Native Americans vs. DC political zealots on an ideological mission

I’ve seen this play before. I know how it turns out.

[jacknhoo]

So they don’t like being used as political pawns.

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

--- "Nobody wanted the name changed except a few self-righteous, holier-than-thou #woke activists."

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.

[rod5591]

Change the name to the Washington Crusaders! ;-)

[escapefromboston]

I’d support the Indians but I already boycott NFL for the last few seasons.

[GreenLanternCorps]

I’m glad to hear there is an organized effort to give the Redskins their name back. Need do the same for the Indians. (And indeed the Miami Redskins).

[frank ballenger]

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?”

[Terry L Smith]

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.

[UnwashedPeasant]

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.

[JBW1949]

I, too, am half Scots-Irish and AniYunWiya...I have NEVER felt embarrassed or offended by the nicknames....

[Retrofitted]

25% Ani-Yun'wiya, 25% Chahta (which, when combined with my 25% Russian and 25% German, which makes for some hilarious family re-unions), and only had one family member complain about those nicknames.

She was an in-law someone picked up from Boston. Need I say more?

[Rusty0604]

You just posted what I was thinking.

[ElkGroveDan]

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.

[alternatives?]

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.

[JBW1949]

I bet it does make some interesting reunions...

I have always said my Scots-Irish and AniYunWiya background made me a “drunk Indian”...LOL

[JBW1949]

You know, we could be close...Chahta and AniYunWiya intermarried a whole lot...We were very close knit tribes...