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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
No. I have an issue with a bigot accusing someone of racism. I agree that some natives may take offense to the name and also understand that a many of them do not care nor take offense and in fact some take pride in it. I believe you can use a lot of names like Browns, Indians, etc in a racial context but sentence and turn them into spiteful words however we are talking team names here. Goodell was asked if he would walk up to a native and call him "Redskin" to his face. He said no as it's the name of a football team.
One of the Washington columnists went to one of the reserves and was stunned by the poor conditions and made a point that here's these people living in deplorable conditions and nobody cares but when a small group of them take offense to a team name it's national news because the real issues like natives living in slums doesn't sell newspapers or make for good news stories. He's right.
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It is the name of a football team whose fight song includes their desire to scalp their opponents, seems like a fairly racial context to me.