Comments on: Push against “Redskins” name doesn’t subside

By: jdhein22

jdhein22 — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 04:52:08 +0000

The Redskins should change heir names to the Grayskins and logo into zombies.

By: mancave001

mancave001 — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 00:38:53 +0000

Norton is a lefty lunatic. Oh, and Congress sucks at everything except taking more of our rights and hard earned dollars. That is all.

By: defscottyb

defscottyb — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 23:31:43 +0000

91% of native americans polled (who have no issue with the name Redskins are the “brown indians” who actually live on reservations. The other 9% who are opposed are the “white indians” who have all the money and power and control the “brown indians”. These “white indians” are also the one’s who will monetarily benefit the most from all the Redskins merchandising profits they are seeking. It’s all about the $ period.

By: mrlaloosh

mrlaloosh — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 23:17:29 +0000

I intend to become a Saint (ask my mother) and don’t like a football team using that as a name. I’ll pray for them and the Redskins.

By: thirdistheworrd

thirdistheworrd — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 23:00:02 +0000

tennesseeoilers says: Mar 5, 2013 2:36 PM

Even Redskins players–going back as far as All-Pro DE Charles Mann in the early ’90s–have gone on the record admitting the name has racist overtones. No surprise there, the founding owner who named the Redskins, George Preston Marshall, was a loud and proud white supremacist. This isn’t rocket science folks.
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1. Anything can have racist overtones, if you read them into it. What matters is if they’re intended or not.
2. George Preston Marshall was a racist, but he was not a White Supremacist. One also has to consider that as the southermost team in the NFL for its first fifty years, Washington was “The team of the South”. 1962 was still very early in the Civil Rights Movement, and much of Marshall’s stance was marketing more than his own beliefs.
3. The team was named after William Dietz, the team’s first coach, a Native himself. The Logo was designed by Walter Wetzel, chairman of the Blackfoot People and president of the National Congress of American Indians.

This isn’t “rocket science”, but it is fact checking.

By: thirdistheworrd

thirdistheworrd — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 22:45:19 +0000

Regardless of how you feel about the issue, the really offensive thing is how the writers here feel like the have to be the sole engine of social change for Native Americans.

If Native American groups really wanted to make a big deal out of the nickname, they would. The fact that this website’s staff seems to feel like Native Americans are somehow incapable of speaking out; having their voices heard; or advocating for themselves: and that sportswriters are the only ones who can do it, is not only arrogant, but far more belittling than anything one could construe from Washington’s team name or logo.

By: micknangold

micknangold — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 22:14:04 +0000

It’s not subsiding because you won’t shut up about it.

By: defscottyb

defscottyb — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 21:57:54 +0000

Just read a great article “native americans speaking out in support of redskins” google it… It speaks of the issue of sports teams mascots and names being an issue only to the “white indians” not real “brown indians” who actually live on reservations and deal with real issues and real life there. Brown indians (as they are called in this article) actually support sports teams like the Redskins. It’s the “white indians” who blend in perfectly with society and have the money focus and dwell on the non-issues like mascots etc. Because it makes them “feel indian” and can scream racism when actually they are very disconnected from real indians on reservations and don’t even know the real important issues.

By: skylander14

skylander14 — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 21:56:05 +0000

I think they should change the name, but this is ‘Merica and in ‘Merica you cannot mess with football.

By: baywatchboy

baywatchboy — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 21:23:56 +0000

Anyone, especially someone from the Washington D.C. area, who uses the Bullets to Wizards as an example is simple showing their ignorance. The Bullets were originally from Baltimore and were named for a TRAIN. Now that you have the facts, consider that the team name was changed from a train to a KKK rank. You tell me how that is less racist or derogatory.

By: dsoapes

dsoapes — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 21:00:03 +0000

The high school I graduated from is one of the 70 in country where team is named Redskins. It was so named over 100 years ago to honor local native americans in the same way the city park, local rivers and adjoining towns were named in honor of native americans. Now the local school board wants to change the name. The people who are most opposed to a change? The local native americans. The original intent of the name has not changed, What has changed is the perception of the name by liberals and neo-locals who never attended the school.

By: mikebrownistheworstownerinprosports

mikebrownistheworstownerinprosports — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 20:46:40 +0000

Everyone is offended by something these days. When it comes to politics, I’d prefer we focus on real issues like national debt, the plummeting value of the US dollar and the rising poverty %.

By: cobrawolf

cobrawolf — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 20:31:27 +0000

Mr. Snyder should see about changing the name for the return of the cap money taken from the team. I am a big fan but the name does have a negative tone.

By: burnzido

burnzido — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 20:27:26 +0000

Again, if the name was so offensive to so many, why has it consistently been one of the most valuable and profitable sports franchises in the entire WORLD?!!!
Do you really think that because Mike Florio and 5 other people are offended Danny Snider is going to put his brand at risk?
Also, a couple of no name liberals commenting on things they have no business commenting on is a far cry from a “push”. Im sure they would love to start wasting time and taxpayer money on such a worthless effort.

By: Legion

*Legion* — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 20:01:58 +0000

They should change back to their original name… the Braves.

Still Native American, but no longer an ethnic slur.

Native American groups don’t particularly like the tomahawk chop and chant that the Atlanta Braves have done (still do? I don’t watch baseball), but I don’t think there has been much ire directed at the team name itself. Certainly not like “Redskins”.

By: breakmyrustycage213

breakmyrustycage213 — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 19:46:03 +0000

hodag… I’m sure all those Native Americans around you (yeah right) really appreciate you putting words in their mouth. Try checking out the National Annenberg Election survey from 2004 as just one example.

If that isn’t recent enough for you, how about we take another poll so that 90% of them can show you that they don’t care… again?

Or, we could as Native Americans why they use the name for their own high schools… or why they helped develop the Redskins’ logo….

I could go on and on…

Your outrage over the name is misplaced.

By: tennesseeoilers

tennesseeoilers — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 19:36:13 +0000

By: junkfooddaddy

junkfooddaddy — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 19:35:47 +0000

You can’t trivialize racism. If tolerate it you are part of the problem.

By: ham1

ham1 — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 19:32:27 +0000

Changing from the bullets to the wizards….thats your great example? That just goes to show when a bunch of politically correct police want to change the name of a franchise so it doesnt offend anybody.
Wizards…how pathetic. Redskins are not going to change there name but you can try holding your breath that long .

By: coltzfan166

coltzfan166 — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 19:19:00 +0000

What about the North Carolina Tarheels?

By: paredskinwarrior1985

paredskinwarrior1985 — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 19:18:21 +0000

pigskins would be a joke and an embarrassment!! the Washington Warriors or warrior-kings if the logo changed would show respect and be Badass

By: coloradocowboy

coloradocowboy — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 19:15:31 +0000

Dear Representative Norton,

On your supposition that “Nobody would let a comparable name to blacks stand,” I present to you the New Zealand men’s national rugby union team, known as the “All Blacks.”

It’s their name, whether it means what you think it means (insert Princess Bride link here) or not.

Don’t you have some other important business to be attending to? You know, like NOT giving our children a massive debt?

Thanks.

By: hodag54501

hodag54501 — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 19:14:33 +0000

breakmyrustycage213 and the rest of the name apologists:
Perhaps you should go talk to a few Native Americans before you make your proclamations. Where did you get the 90 percent figure? The same place monkeys fly out of? I live with multiple Native American tribes around me. I interact with tribal members on a regular basis. The idea of sports names based around the idea of savages is deeply offensive. Same as if the Washington D.C. football team was named the “White Savages”. It reflects the worst of American culture and how people think you can kick dirt in someone’s face just because there’s more of you than them.
This isn’t a political thing: it’s the right thing. Two Democrats had the guts to mention it, so that makes it wrong? It shows a true sense of America that some will stand to the end to defend a racist name. Why don’t you go up to LeBron James and ask him if the Miami Slaves would be a good name?

By: mrx149

mrx149 — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 19:14:16 +0000

In my 38 years, I have never spoke, heard, or seen in print the name Redskins unless is was talking about the Washington Redskins football team. Show me a hate group who walks around coming people Redskins. The only people who are called Redskins are fans of the Washington Redskins football team. All of these years I have been calling myself a Redskin, and now all of a sudden I have learned I was insulting myself….who knew.

By: mightymightylafootball

mightymightylafootball — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 19:06:45 +0000

Good gravy, are we back on this again?

*sigh*

Just…let…it…go

By: nebster21

nebster21 — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 19:04:58 +0000

I am tall and when someone calls me a Giant it offends me. The Giants should change their name.

By: The Prophet

The Prophet — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 19:04:33 +0000

Let’s keep in mind that even the Tampa Bay Buccaneers changed their uniforms in the 90′s from the old orange unis, since they were blatantly exploiting the gay community. So there is precedence folks, not a big deal to change.

By: eagles512

eagles512 — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 19:03:11 +0000

Give it up!! What a waste of time trying to push your agenda.

By: mikeevans2012

mikeevans2012 — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 19:02:43 +0000

Just call them the “Skins” It is what most of my friends refer to them as anyway.

By: anactualnflowner

anactualnflowner — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 19:02:31 +0000

Democrats are offended on behalf of another race? What?!

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