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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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Well, it costs the team millions of dollars for one thing...even if the only thing you have to change is the name and not the symbols or colors. Personally, after thinking about this, I could live with a name change as long as it was related...maybe something like the Warriors, Seminoles, or change it back to the Braves. I could live with the team changing the symbol back to the spear and feather.
Wewhite2: When I say more important issues in this world, I'm talking about American jobs leaving our country, the high cost of gas and oil, fighting diseases. If you're going to pull the racial card out, you'd better accept the fact that racism isn't completely spawn from white people. I have been a near victim of a racial crime in my lifetime through no fault of my own. Racism is an ignorant thing, no doubt...but it's just as ignorant to assume that only one race is guilty of it.