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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Washington Lobbyists
They name teams out of STRENGTH, not weakness, but now the Washington Redskins & Cleveland Indians, two fabled sports franchises, look like they are going to be changing their names in order to be politically correct. Indians, like Elizabeth Warren, must be very angry right now!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 6, 2020
Slugs?
Ticks?
Leeches?
Google Walter Blackie Wetzel. He designed the current logo back in 1972. The Redskins name was first used in 1933. No protests over the name occurred until 1968. BLACKFOOT Indian leader Walter Blackie Wetzel drew the design in 1972, and said to the Washington Post in 2002, "It made us all so proud to have an Indian in a big-time team. It's only a small group of radicals who oppose those names. Real Indians are proud of Indians."
His drawing (the current team logo) was inspired by Chief Two Guns White Calf.
washington tampons
washinton snowflakes
washington safe spacers
Washington Weightlifters
They can have a pic of a dumbbell on their helmets
Appropriate
Black Lagooners is right out!
Just dissolve the team and shut the doors. No Redskins? No NFL in DC.
Washington Blueskin
After George Washingtons horse.
I had that exact thought as well.
Yes. Washington is full of commies.
It’s not like anybody would miss them or anything...............
Bump
The Washington Feds
We're the Feds and we're here to clean up!.................
LOL. That episode was a Top Ten Bad/Hammy Acting by William Shatner contender.
They are erasing themselves...
If they want all records, images and names of native Americans to be erased so be it.
It will be as if they never existed.
I like the Fighting Whiteys
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