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Originally Posted by memphisskin
If it's continuing to be an issue, just change the name. What's the big deal? I'm used to calling the team the Redskins, but I could just as easily call them the Parrots or the Hucksters or the Insert Name Here (if Snyder sells the naming rights as I'm sure he'll want to do).
And to say that this is the work of a few Native Americans, well its not like there are millions of NAs walking the streets. I happen to be good friends with a Native American, and he's none too pleased with the Redskins name. To try and sugarcoat it by saying that its a reference to war paint, well that's just insulting. Look up redskin in the dictionary, according to Websters its a noun and its "usually offensive".
That's good enough for me, but then again I'm not one to dictate how someone else should feel. All my memories are of the team, not the nickname. Changing it hurts us how?
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The big deal is the millions of dollars that it would cost to change the name. If this was such a big issue that concerned so many Native Americans we would hear more about it . In the show I saw last year on this issue when they held a protest at the stadium ony one person showed up.To me that is not a stong show of support for all these so called millions it offends.