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Related: About this forumOn Washington Redskins’ name, it’s time the grown-ups talk sense into Daniel Snyder
If youve long suspected that football is not a measure of intellect, the proof is currently posted for all to see on the Washington Redskins Web site. A series of prominently displayed pseudo-articles defend the clubs use of a racial slur as a mascot on the grounds that lots of high schools are nicknamed Redskins too so it must be okay. Which we can only take to mean that pretty soon owner Daniel Snyder will be skipping class to build a potato gun.
It would be nice if the NFL franchise in the nations capital were an example for all the land. But apparently Snyder takes his example from 10th graders. A couple of days ago, the club launched a campaign to defuse the pressure Snyder is under to change the team name by declaring that 70 different high schools in 25 states are known as the Redskins, and therefore its surely an honorable word. Whats more, Redskins.com found that there are almost as many schools using the name Redskins as Cowboys. Oooh! And after school, for fun well shoot BB guns at road signs!
On Tuesday, a new entry appeared, in which a high school athletic director from Oklahoma proclaimed that, No one has ever been dishonored at our school with that Redskins nickname. Though he himself was admittedly not American Indian, he said he had consulted one.
He also confessed that he wasnt sure his students know the whole history behind the nickname Redskins.?
No, they probably dont know. Given that the most recent National Assessment of Educational Progress found that only 12 percent of high school seniors were proficient in American history. And only 2 percent were able to identify the social problem addressed by the Supreme Courts decision in Brown v. Board of Education.
Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/redskins/on-washington-redskins-name-its-time-the-grown-ups-talk-sense-into-daniel-snyder/2013/02/13/867b1ace-7610-11e2-95e4-6148e45d7adb_story.html?hpid=z5
TZ
(42,998 posts)really? The man is basically a RW nutter. He's got the radio stations he owns heavily lobbying agaisnt a name change. I'm pretty convinced that the name is never going to change as long as Snyder owns the team.
Auggie
(31,173 posts)but too many are willfully ignorant or apathetic, or disengaged, uneducated, or lazy.
It's why Congress sucks. It's why we have un-affordable health insurance and climate change and needless wars and banks that rip us off and bullshit like Fox News.
MADem
(135,425 posts)They could change their logo.....
And call their cheerleaders the "Sour Cream and Chives!"
DinahMoeHum
(21,794 posts)has a "death grip" on this franchise, and nothing will change until he's out - one way or another.
I've seen pictures of him, and he is repulsive. A Napoleonic complex with a stink-eye for anybody who's taller than him.
You're aware, I think? that an original verse in "Hail to the Redskins" was "Fight for old Dixie"
(now "Fight for old DC"
http://www.edgeofsports.com/2013-02-11-814/index.html
madinmaryland
(64,933 posts)TZ
(42,998 posts)so its not any better for Cowboys fans. At least Snyder appears not to be suffering from dimensia yet....
DinahMoeHum
(21,794 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)allegedly as the name of an arena football team he planned to bring to metro DC.
That was while the lawsuit against trademarking the racially offensive name was still active. Now? (crickets)
madinmaryland
(64,933 posts)anyone on DU support the name of the Washington NFL football team.
many a good man
(5,997 posts)Not sure what the new logo would look like.