Redskins name change?

[aa14]

Originally Posted by Quackjack

I'm saying because everyone won't stop complaining we might as well think of a new name. My opinion doesn't matter in the bigger scheme of things.

Also, didn't I tell you not to talk to me? No one gives a fuck about you around here.

Oh, so now it's everyone? Not a few over sensitive "whiners"? Where did that ninety percent you were talking about go? You may not like me but it doesn't change my arguments. Abandoning the original purpose of the thread because you now admit your opinion doesn't matter is pretty funny.

[stb_steeler]

Originally Posted by Quackjack

I'm saying because everyone won't stop complaining we might as well think of a new name. My opinion doesn't matter in the bigger scheme of things.

Also, didn't I tell you not to talk to me? No one gives a fuck about you around here.

They wont let him play on the Ravens board anymore.....

[aa14]

Originally Posted by stb_steeler

They wont let him play on the Ravens board anymore.....

Oh look, the guy who was calling people "retarded" in another thread. Here to add more substance to the conversation, I see.

[Quackjack]

10 out of 100 Natives find offense to the name "Redskins." In this day in age, that is more than enough. Still a minority, but the loudest minority.

[Buddha Bus]

Originally Posted by Quackjack

10 out of 100 Natives find offense to the name "Redskins." In this day in age, that is more than enough. Still a minority, but the loudest minority.

[Quackjack]

Originally Posted by Buddha Bus

Oh, wrong Link

http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/6093796/

[stb_steeler]

Originally Posted by aa14

Oh look, the guy who was calling people "retarded" in another thread. Here to add more substance to the conversation, I see.

It was "person" not people Mr. hey look at me i need attention!

[aa14]

Originally Posted by Quackjack

Oh, wrong Link

http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/6093796/

Most Americans are okay with the name for several reasons, most notably they realize the name isn't sustained by the organization to be an insult to Native Americans. The team has been around for a very long time and the moniker's racist roots are obscured through time and desensitization. Just because most people are complacent does not make it okay. The few "whiners" you refer to are estimated to be over half a million people, discounting people like me who are not part of the Native American minority. If you walked around my hometown calling native men on the street "redskin" you'd get your ass beat. The anecdote of my classmate fighting over being called the name isn't an isolated incident. Maybe it doesn't happen often but it is something people like him will remember and hurt over for much of their lives. He didn't last at that school for much longer after that. He was a pariah, perpetually anxious and irritable because he knew at any time one of several kids in the class could whip a slew of racist slurs towards him. I see why he is probably in that small minority of "whiners".

[aa14]

Originally Posted by stb_steeler

It was "person" not people Mr. hey look at me i need attention!

The plurality of the word isn't what made it offensive and it is hilariously ironic you're arguing the discrepancy in this particular thread.

[BlacksburgSteeler13]

While it would be admittedly strange to have a Washington-based football team not be known as the Redskins, in the end they are not my team, and whatever decision the organization makes would not bother me in either case.