WHAT DID I DO NOW?!?!?!?!/1/Quote:
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WHAT DID I DO NOW?!?!?!?!/1/Quote:
Originally Posted by Parkbandit
More evidence of racism in the Washington team..
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But Washington Redskins GM Scot McCloughan says Harper would not play cornerback — not necessarily because he lacks the speed for the position, but because he lacks the melanin. From an interview with 106.7 The Fan:
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I went to a game a couple weeks ago, and he flipped his hips and caught a fly ball out in right field in the corner, and I thought, maybe [cornerback]. But I’m thinking, uhh, okay, no, he’s gotta be a safety. He’s a white guy.
Though the boycotts have been slow to start, the Tlingits have broken the logjam.
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Until FedEx pulls its sponsorship or Washington, D.C.’s NFL team changes its name, the shipping giant can expect to lose business from Alaska’s largest tribe.
Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska announced Thursday that it had notified tribal employees that use of FedEx services would be discontinued until the company disassociates itself from the Redskins football team it sponsors because many consider the name to be derogatory to indigenous peoples.
FedEx is one of the team’s top sponsors and purchased naming rights to the team’s stadium in 1999.
“This isn’t anti-FedEx. We are exercising our strength financially,” Tribal President Richard Peterson said. “If you actively support entities, in this case specifically a sports franchise that has a mascot and name derogatory to our people, we’re going to spend our dollars elsewhere — that’s us voting with our dollars.”
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And there's this..
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The United Church of Christ has called for the Washington Redskins to change its name, announcing on Monday that it has asked its nearly 1 million members to boycott all team games and merchandise until the moniker is dropped.
“The use of the term ‘Redskins’ for the team mascot and nickname of the Washington football team is offensive and causes direct harmful effects to the public health and well-being of the Native American population,” the Rev. Linda Jaramillo, a national officer of the church, said in a statement.
The church is just the latest public organization or person to come out against the name, including President Obama, 50 U.S. senators, a parade of sports columnists and the Fritz Pollard Alliance — an influential nonprofit group that was instrumental in forcing the league to revise its minority-hiring practice.
In a joint statement, both the National Congress of American Indians and the Oneida Indian Nation, which has led the push for a name change, offered support for the church’s decision: “We are honored to partner with the United Church of Christ in their effort to help relegate this offensive and outdated slur to the dustbin of history.”
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This Washington Post DC Sports Blog asks you to choose whether a quote defends the Confederate flag or the Redskins name. I scored 50%. Can you do better?
Because the executive branch of the federal government is involved, it's a 2016 election issue!Quote:
In an move to pressure the Washington Redskins football organization, US Interior Secretary Sally Jewell said that her office will likely bar the team’s plans to build a new stadium in Washington, DC unless it changes its name—which is seen as racist toward Native Americans.
Jewell oversees America’s trust lands and treaties with Native American tribes and the National Park Service which owns the land where the team wants to rebuild its stadium. She called the team’s name “a relic of the past.”
“Personally, I think we would never consider naming a team the ‘Blackskins’ or the ‘Brownskins’ or the ‘Whiteskins,’ ” Jewell told ABC News. The term “redskin” has been associated with the practice of killing Native Americans for bounty or a scalped head sold for cash.
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A court upheld the trademark office decision..
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A federal judge on Wednesday ruled against the Washington Redskins in the legal dispute over last year’s cancellation of the football team’s trademark.
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WASHINGTON -- Eleanor Holmes Norton, the District of Columbia's delegate to Congress, introduced a bill that would lift the NFL's antitrust exemption if the Washington Redskins do not change their nickname.
In a news release issued Thursday, Norton was quoted as saying Washington "should always be associated with pride, not with a moniker that mocks and insults Native Americans."
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Why was the NFL given antitrust protection in the first place? Wasn't being tax exempt good enough?
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In a news release issued Thursday, Norton was quoted as saying Washington "should always be associated with pride, not with a moniker that mocks and insults Native Americans."
As if Washington doesn't mock and insult all Americans.
If the outcome of a play is not clear, then it should be called in favor of the team that does not have a racist name. But only when it's not clear.Quote:
So much controversy surrounds the naming issue that defensive end Jason Hatcher recently suggested that referees were possibly making calls against the team due to its name.
"I'm not saying this out of character to get fined, but it is what it is," Hatcher said after Washington's 44-16 loss Nov. 22 to the Carolina Panthers. "I don't know if it's about the name or what, but at the same time, we play football too. We work our butt off too. Don't single us out. At the end of the day, it's the name. Don't worry about the name we players and we work our butt off too. I'm just frustrated with it. We shouldn't have to be punished for that. It's been every game, calls after calls that should've been made in our favor, but it goes to them. It's just not right. We in the league too. We're National Football players. We got a team too. We go out there, and we sweat and work hard too. I don't give a crap about the name. We are players. We've got feelings too, and we want to win too."
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ClydeR has always been such a packer.