[Junior]

We will no longer use "Redskins" or "Skins" because it is a racial slur. It derives from an old, genocidal practice in this country of scalping Indians to earn a bounty. A bounty hunter could prove he had killed an Indian by turning in a scalp. The bloody scalps were called "redskins." I learned this from the Portland Press Herald in Maine, which banned "Redskins" from its sports pages in July 2000.

Beep. Circle takes the square. The Indians were called "Redskins" because of their red skin. Another sobriquet was "red man." This clown obviously does not know anything about that which he speaks.

[berserker]

What is even better about the Washington Redskins is that you can get their shirts and stuff a lot cheaper than other teams, since they lost the trademark protection for their name.

[dirtboy]

This clown obviously does not know anything about that which he speaks.

Not only that, but the clown in question obviously isn't fit to be editor of a major paper, because she didn't verify this information with a second source, which in better days was a requirement for sound journalism.

[WOSG]

It derives from an old, genocidal practice in this country of scalping Indians to earn a bounty. A bounty hunter could prove he had killed an Indian by turning in a scalp. The bloody scalps were called "redskins." The Indians were called "Redskins" because of their red skin. Another sobriquet was "red man." This clown obviously does not know anything about that which he speaks.

I think they have been indoctrinated into PC anti_white-male cr*p and/or are engaging in deliberate lying. It takes a room temp IQ to buy that lie hook line and sinker ... and it is quite an ironic lie since of course scalping was a practise used by some Indians on white settlers/soldiers. vz. French and Indian wars, etc.