Let me get this out of the way right now. The Washington Redskins team name is not offensive. Not only is it not offensive to me, it's not offensive to most natives and it's not offensive to most other people. You see for the most part it's not natives or native groups protesting the name. It's the politicians in Washington who don't seem to have anything better to do. You would think they'd be worried about some of the major issues both abroad and in the States as well. But no they see the need to go change some NFL team's name that a vast majority of people don't even find offensive. The team is also very historical. It was founded in 1932 and has been that way since. Why now to be changing their name?
You'd think a team with an eighty plus year old name would be safe right? After all it's historical and there were good and honourable reasons for giving it that name at the time and those reasons are still there. However, certain politicians who somehow won over the people to vote them in are trying to change it. Aren't elected representatives supposed to represent the people who voted them in? In yet another display of not fulfilling that duty the politicians in Washington have failed again; a vast majority of people don't find the name offensive. Natives included.
Multiple polls have shown that a very large majority think it should stay the Washington Redskins should keep their name. Some of these polls also include natives who said they are okay with the name. Yet, politicians still seem to find a need to change it. Why? I don't know. The fact that the people they represent don't find it offensive should tell them something. Yet it still doesn't. Why do these select few need to be offended by it? If every time we banned something that offended someone eventually there would be nothing left to do. And doing nothing would offend those who like to do lots so even doing nothing wouldn't be an option. How about the politicians leave things like team names and minor things that offend people alone and go figure out the big issues the world is having right now? Sounds good to me.
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Multiple polls have shown that a very large majority think it should stay the Washington Redskins should keep their name. Some of these polls also include natives who said they are okay with the name. Yet, politicians still seem to find a need to change it. Why? I don't know. The fact that the people they represent don't find it offensive should tell them something. Yet it still doesn't. Why do these select few need to be offended by it? If every time we banned something that offended someone eventually there would be nothing left to do. And doing nothing would offend those who like to do lots so even doing nothing wouldn't be an option. How about the politicians leave things like team names and minor things that offend people alone and go figure out the big issues the world is having right now? Sounds good to me.
-Darren
Photo taken from nfl.com
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