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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
What do you care about more Jiri? Honestly I bet most Americans and Canadians would want the name of a football team changed before providing better conditions for natives to live because we don't really have a vested interest in their day to day living conditions. We want to stick it to the man (Snider and the NFL). We want to show the NFL that we are evolved and cognitive of minorities because that makes us feel good about ourselves. It makes us feel evolved. Not a single native will benefit from it but lots of North Americans will feel good about it and really that's all that counts now is the majority feeling like they are do-gooders even when they aren't doing anything. At the end of the day having the Redskins name changed would be a giant headline, politicians would pat themselves on the back and the regular majority would feel good about this big positive they influenced but for the native Americans continuing their day to day lives in lousy conditions it would be a very, very small victory. But really it's not even about them anymore as it's about us as always.
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Why does to be a choice? Should efforts be made to improve the bigger problems? Yes. Do those efforts get in the way of the right decision being made when it comes to the naming of the Redskins? No.
Both can happen. And just because enough progress isn't being made overall doesn't and shouldn't give the NFL and Snyder an out.