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Hey, nobody said it should be illegal for them to name the team whatever they want. But everyone has a 1st amendment right to call them out for their bad taste or boycott their games.
See the video above that they produced and aired in prime time.
Dishonesty in reporting?
One side of a two sided coin?
Just a cursory search turned up a few 'majority native' attended or owned schools that take pride in the name.
Just one of the few ...
'We Are Very Proud To Be Called Redskins'
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These are the words of Coshocton High School athletic director George Hemming, who serves as the athletic director for just one of the 70 different High Schools in 25 states are known as the Redskins.
Redskins.com found that there are almost as many schools using the name Redskins as Cowboys, as only 75 schools use the name Cowboys, and interestingly just 19 use the name Giants.
Coshocton High School is located in east central Ohio which has a rich Native American history. Hemming said "the name represents to us competition and pride."
In eastern Ohio, the name Redskins was adopted by Indian Creek High School in 1993.
Principal Steve Cowser said the name was selected when two schools with the nicknames Warriors and Indians were merged, and thus the Indian Creek Redskins were born.
Cowser explained how the name shows their "pride for the Native Americans and how they lived."
As Indian Creek High is a 45 minute drive from Pittsburgh, Cowser closed by stating, "Go Steelers," as a reminder of where his NFL loyalties stand.
These schools' athletes have a deep connection, just as the Washington Redskins alumni, and many high school student-athletes have pride in calling themselves Redskins.
One familiar high school Redskins athlete was Washington Redskins star Brian Orakpo, who played for the Lamar Redskins in his high School days in Houston, Texas.
Who was "offended" by the name RedSkins? Anyone? Anybody? Aside from the deliberately over sensitive "progressives" I don't think anyone ever cared. The fact that the "progressives" have so much power to dictate what an NFL Football team should be called, despite having it's previous name for years, and despite the legion of Red Skins fans demanding to leave the name alone, is a testament to the "progressives" power. They are the establishment.
This is just stupid and a sign of what our nation is becoming, and it's not becoming a good thing.
If ALL it is is a name, then why should anyone be bothered if it gets changed? It's just the name of a team, right?
I don't have an issue either way, though I think it would be funny if they changed their name to Whiteskins, but this has to sting for the Redskins.
I just don't get it... given how American Indian's have generally be shoved into a corner in this nation, one would think ANY publicity would be good publicity... this whole thing is just sooo stupid, and even if the name is a bit "derogatory," it's not as if the team is some sort of mockery of American Indian culture. It's just a sports team name - they all tend to be "manly" or oddly historical... Yankees, White Sox, Red Sox... so many odd names... Ugh... more people with too much free time...
Why do eastern teams with Indian names depict plains Indians on their logos?
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