Posted on 07/07/2020 10:35:27 AM PDT by Red Badger
WASHINGTON (AP) — More than a dozen Native American leaders and organizations sent a letter to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell on Monday calling for the league to force Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder to change the team name immediately.
The letter was signed by 15 Native American advocates and obtained by The Associated Press. It demands the team and the NFL cease the use of Native American names, imagery and logos — with specific importance put on Washington, which last week launched a “ thorough review ” of its name.
The letter was delivered on the same day that President Donald Trump voiced his opposition to any name change by the team. Several team sponsors have come out in favor of change recently and Snyder showed his first indication of willingness to do so amid a nationwide movement to erase racially insensitive symbols.
According to their letter, the groups “expect the NFL to engage in a robust, meaningful reconciliation process with Native American movement leaders, tribes, and organizations to repair the decades of emotional violence and other serious harms this racist team name has caused to Native Peoples.”
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Injun givers
How about the Washington Neolithic Hunter-Gatherers?
Why not just simply the ‘Washington Reds’?...............
Whining on about the name of a football team, a mascot, a school name, whatever imaginary grievance you want distracts the “victim” group from thinking about the miserable job being done to solve their actual problems. BLM, Democrats, etc. use the same method: create an imaginary grievance that solves nothing and push on it with everything you’ve got.
Two of the shortest books in history.
Jewish Sports Legends
Successful Inians
The original Redskins was a Boston team, Boston Braves....................
Put it to a vote in the Indian Community.
Don’t leave the issue up to the people who hate this country and shout the loudest... PUT THE ISSUE TO A VOTE.
“The letter was signed by 15 Native American advocates ...”
In other words, 15 Native American race hustlers.
I’m under the impression that the average Native American either doesn’t care, or likes the name.
I’ve been out getting my Vit D.
Too much maybe.
My skin is red!
And . . . here come the ‘natives’ (I was born here too) to peel off my epidermis as racist.
Change the logo to a potato and keep the name.
Problem solved.
Once the Redskins change their name, it won’t stop there. Next on the list is the Atlanta Braves, Cleveland Indians, Kansas City Chiefs and more.
They probably do not even watch football.
Look at the pic at the link. All the people look whiter than me!................
Don’t tell them what “Oklahoma” means.
Oh, that’s a given.
Chicago Blackhawks, and eventually animals will be verboten....................
yep!......................
The Washington Redskins began life as the Boston Braves - the same name as the baseball team with whom they shared a stadium.
"Lone Star" Dietz was their coach. He had been a teammate of Jim Thorpe at the Carlisle Indian school.
In 1933, George Preston Marshall, the owner of the team, changed the name to the Boston Redskins.
Marshall said he wanted to keep the Indian theme of the name as an honor to the Native Americans and, especially, to Dietz.
“Change the logo to a potato and keep the name.
Problem solved.”
Ok, that’s awesome.
Every group wants to flex it’s muscles by pushing weak willed organizations around. That’s really all they want.
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