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thanks for the clarification.
I heard on the radio, (have not searched the web), that over 90% of Native Americans have no issue with the team name of Redskin.
What I find interesting, the name/trademark has been issued for 47 years. Now it seems its an issue. Makes no sense to me.
I have asked if the word redskin in association with the team has been used as a slur. No one has stated it has and provided a source.
We cannot please everyone. I would bet the owner will take this to court. They have won in the past.
I have also asked why trademarks like Florida Seminoles, Cleveland Indians, Alanta Braves are not being targeted. No real reply.
Seems at one time the calling someone an "indian" was a slur.
This is all PC being used for political gain.
Can't speak for all but I believe FSU had the blessing of the Seminoles for their use of that. As far as Redskins being offensive... I dunno. I can see it in that it seems like a really really generalized stupid thing as if the Mohawks of the North East had anything in common with the Hopi in the Southwest. I'd think that "nigger" was probably derived from "negro" which is Spanish for black and Redskin was probably thrown out there for all natives whether they have a red color in their skin or not. I think the offense is being called out by your skin rather than your heritage in an over-generalized manner.
Braves... calling someone brave is probably less of an insult. Cleveland Indians... well that's kind of insulting in that Indians is a misnomer being that Columbus was just an idiot who thought he traveled around the whole globe and had landed in India so people there where "Indians".
I just think these people have a right to be heard as does the owner. But the owner has to bring more than just, "because I feel like it" or "it's been that way for a while" or anything petty like that. He needs to actually make a case for himself.
I guess another angle to being offended would be that Washington was the center of basically deciding all the native genocides and broken truces at the same time generalizing them all as the same monolithic crew... when in fact they had a lot of animosity between them in many instances. It's like several years ago when a president of some south American country dared to say to the United States that "we are all Americans after all" and the right-wing just flew the hell off the handle about that. It was all a "How dare you say you are like us!" moment.
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