The National Football League’s Washington Redskins team is under attack over the mascot name “Redskins”.
Earlier this week, fifty U.S. senators wrote a letter to the NFL commissioner asking him to force the Redskins´ owner Daniel Snyder to change their name. Think about it, these guys can’t balance the federal budget and they’re spending time trying to coerce a football team into changing its name?
But the Redskins haven’t buckled under yet. And Redskins President Bruce Allen wrote a letter to the Senate Majority Leader, addressing him as “the Honorable [sic] Senator Harry Reid”. The letter lists several reasons that the Redskins name is acceptable.
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Blog entry by Allan Wall, published on VDARE.COM, May 24, 2014.
Tags: American Indians, Sports