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Sunday, July 5, 2015

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Obama Administration Turns Screws on Redskins Over Name

By Dylan Gwinn, Juky 4, 2015, Newsbusters

Remember that time the Obama administration took a courageous stand against the face of evil and racism in our time? Me neither. No, instead the Obama Administration has contented itself with throwing down the gauntlet in the face of an NFL team.

If the Redskins want to move back to the District of Colombia, they need to cave and change their allegedly racist name. According to The Hill:

The Obama administration will likely block Washington, D.C., authorities from building a new stadium for the NFL's Washington Redskins because of objections to the team’s name.

The National Park Service (NPS) owns the land under the 54-year-old Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium, a venue two miles east of the Capitol that hosted the Redskins from 1961 to 1996. Some city leaders want to demolish the current stadium and build a new one to lure the football team back from suburban Maryland.

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Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Ex-RNC head tells Congress to butt out

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'Redskins' Become An Issue In Virginia Race

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Thursday, September 25, 2014

What about "redskin" potatoes?

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Redskins Controversy Reaches Grade School

By Cortney O'Brien, Sept. 24, 2014, Townhall.com

Mascot controversies aren't limited to the football field. While the Washington Redskins are busy considering a name change due to criticism that their mascot is offensive to Native Americans, the PC police is also invading public schools.

The Anacostia Indians have been the nickname of Anacostia High School in the District of Columbia since 1937. But, political correctness is once again threatening tradition. Ward 5 Democratic Councilman Kenyan McDuffie introduced legislation to ban the Anacostia mascot, as well as four other racially based school nicknames in the district. The legislator called such terms "pejorative."

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Friday, May 23, 2014

FLASHBACK: AP Poll (2003): 80% Say Don’t Change Redskins Nickname; 11% Say Change It --"Redskins" win a landslide

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By Ben Nukols, May 02, 2014, Ap-gfkpoll.com

WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s been a rough offseason for the Washington Redskins, and not just because of the knee injury to star quarterback Robert Griffin III.

The team’s nickname, which some consider a derogatory term for Native Americans, has faced a barrage of criticism. Local leaders and pundits have called for a name change. Opponents have launched a legal challenge intended to deny the team federal trademark protection. A bill introduced in Congress in March would do the same, though it appears unlikely to pass.

But a new Associated Press-GfK poll shows that nationally, “Redskins” still enjoys widespread support. Nearly four in five Americans don’t think the team should change its name, the survey found. Only 11 percent think it should be changed, while 8 percent weren’t sure and 2 percent didn’t answer.

Although 79 percent favor keeping the name, that does represent a 10 percentage point drop from the last national poll on the subject, conducted in 1992 by The Washington Post and ABC News just before the team won its most recent Super Bowl. Then, 89 percent said the name should not be changed, and 7 percent said it should.

The AP-GfK poll was conducted from April 11-15 and included interviews with 1,004 adults on both land lines and cell phones. It has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.9 percentage points.

Several poll respondents told The AP that they did not consider the name offensive and cited tradition in arguing that it shouldn’t change.

“That’s who they’ve been forever. That’s who they’re known as,” said Sarah Lee, a 36-year-old stay-at-home mom from Osceola, Ind. “I think we as a people make race out to be a bigger issue than it is.”

But those who think the name should be changed say the word is obviously derogatory.

“With everything that Native Americans have gone through in this country, to have a sports team named the Redskins — come on, now. It’s bad,” said Pamela Rogal, 56, a writer from Boston. “Much farther down the road, we’re going to look back on this and say, ‘Are you serious? Did they really call them the Washington Redskins?’ It’s a no-brainer.”

Among football fans, 11 percent said the name should be changed — the same as among non-fans. Among nonwhite football fans, 18 percent said it should change, about double the percentage of white football fans who oppose the name.

In Washington, debate over the name has increased in recent months. In February, the National Museum of the American Indian held a daylong symposium on the use of Indian mascots by sports teams. Museum Director Kevin Gover, of the Pawnee Nation, said the word “redskin” was “the equivalent of the n-word.”

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