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Originally Posted by skinsguy
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.
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The word Warriors is also offensive to this group. Any term our phrase reffering to Native Americans is offensive to them. They want to make it illegal to do the warrior chop at sporting events. If the name was truly offensive I would agee 100% to have it changed. I can not speak for Native Americans but I do not see Redskins as an offensive word. They had a demonstration at rfk years back and only one person showed up and if thats any indication then it must not be a big issue with Native Americans.