WASHINGTON (AP) -- Ten members of Congress are urging the Washington Redskins to change their name because it is offensive to many Native Americans.
The representatives said Tuesday they've sent letters to Redskins owner Dan Snyder, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, Redskins sponsor FedEx and the other 31 NFL franchises.
The letter to Snyder says that "Native Americans throughout the country consider the 'R-word' a racial, derogatory slur akin to the 'N-word' among African Americans or the 'W-word' among Latinos."
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13 comments:
Don't these losers have enough to worry about other than a sports teams' name?
Next we'll have to push to change the name of those saltine things.
Congress has done more damage. To the indians. They a football team can ever do.
Maybe congress can prevent all the rappers from using the N word!
How about the H-word ?? And the C-word ??
No more honoring anyone with anything. It's not pc anymore.
how about banning people from using the "F" word?!?
But these same leftist morons did not give a rats butt when Elizabeth Warren blatantly lied about her Cherokee ancestry to gain admittance to law school. There is no boundary to the hypocrisy of Democrats.
Get back to work you foolish congressmen/women. There is a budget to balance for crying out loud!
This is the dumbest thing I have ever heard. That's almost as bad as hearing Ireton got re-elected.
So, no more redskin potatoes at the market? No more Jewish rye bread? No more Eskimo Pies?
Really? I would think that some Native Americans may take the name as a compliment. They may not be a great team but someone back in time chose the team name for a reason. Has anyone delved into the reason this name was given in the first place?
LOL great point, 2:44!!
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