The poll conducted by the Washington Post indicated more than eight in 10 said they wouldn’t be offended if someone who was not a Native American called them that name.
A federal judge ordered the cancellation of the Washington Redskins’ trademark registration in July, ruling that their name may be disparaging to Native Americans. The club is appealing.
Ninety percent of the random national sample of 504 Native Americans said the name doesn’t bother them; 9 percent said it was offensive. Native Americans make up about 2 percent of the U.S. population.
Interviews were conducted from December through April on landline and cellphones, with a margin of error of plus or minus 5.5 percentage points.
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Do you realize how many people make up 1 in 10 Natives?
ReplyDeleteIt is astonishing that these poor people must endure the terrible pain of watching NFL every weekend and being offended.
well the way the skins have been losing for the last 20 years they ought to be upset with them using the name!
ReplyDeleteThe reason is simple; they are not winey like AA's in this country. They get their feeling hurt over any word and now a smile. SMH
ReplyDeleteI wonder if the Native Americans decided to use that term to describe one another, dropping the last letter and making it a letter A. That way it can be "their" term and not one used to degrade....
ReplyDeleteGosh darn.
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