Under Pressure, D.C. Football Team Will ‘Undergo A Thorough Review’ Of ‘Redskins’ Name | Talking Points Memo

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Washington, D.C.’s football team us undergoing a “thorough review” of its “Redskins” name, the team said Friday.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1318634
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Until Donnie signs an Executive Order requiring the team to preserve its racist heritage.

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Bout damn time.

Why does the D.C. team even have that name?

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“In light of recent events around our country FedEx and Nike grabbing us by the short and curlies and feedback from our community a threat to the cash cow that keeps our owners rolling in it, the Washington Redskins are announcing the team will undergo a thorough review of the team’s name just how to pull our bacon out of the wringer while pretending to actually give a rat’s nard about any color but green,” read a team statement released Friday.

Fixed.

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You are fluent in NFL-ese.

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How about the Rednecks? The Whitecrackers? The Slack-Jawed Yokels?

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Just change the goddamned name.

What is so fucking hard about this?

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Good, even if it happened mostly due to the benjamins they stood to lose.

So, who’s next? The Atlanta Braves or the Cleveland Indians?

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They were originally the Boston Braves in 1933. They had three owners. One of them, George Preston Marshall, bought out the other two the next year and changed the nickname to the Boston Redskins.

Why in 2020 is it still the nickname — especially after Marshall died in the 1960s? Future owners didn’t want to change it, and sponsors haven’t put up a significant pressure campaign until now.

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Maybe the Politicians? Maybe not. Too offensive.

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It’s crazy because I would think they stand to make multi millions from all new gear their fans will have to buy. In fact, it might be a nice idea financially to change your nickname every 10 years or so.

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And after a full and thorough review they will decide that they really do like the name after all.

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Any suggesions?

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“The Washington Greenbacks”?

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It’s a white person’s dismissive-at-least term for a people they displaced and marginalized and then romanticized. Would you say it to a Native American in conversation? Of course not. It’s a term no thoughtful person would use in any context except this one. It’s just obviously not OK.

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Did the owners of the Washington NFL franchise ask descendants of my native-most ancestor whether this team name was acceptable to those not getting ongoing token payments?

No, they did not … because most members of my ancestor’s generation were massacred by U.S. Army forces, and most members of the following generations had their language, history, and culture forcibly suppressed by U.S. federal and state governments. So that tribe does not exist.

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The Half Smokes! Everyone likes half smokes.

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Would be nice if they changed it to a local Native-American tribe. But I looked them up, and that’s a non-starter.

  • Piscataway Conoy Tribe
  • Piscataway Conoy Creations
  • Pamunkey Indian Tribe
  • Nentego (Nanichoke)
  • The Confederation of Sovereign Nanticoke-Lenape Tribes
  • Mattaponi
  • Chickahominy Indian Tribe
  • Monacan Indian Nation
  • Rappahannocks

I actually like “Rappahannocks”

Why not let the fans make suggestions and then vote on it?

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Dan Snyder is a Redskins fan boy.

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