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Redskins Name Change Thread

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sport...der-washington-indians-poarch-mascot/3459141/

Daniel Snyder visited the Poarch Band of Creek Indians in Atmore, Ala., on Tuesday to talk about economic development issues, according to Robert McGhee, treasurer of the tribe.

As for the controversy over the team name of the Washington NFL franchise that Snyder owns, "that subject was never broached," McGhee told USA TODAY Sports Wednesday evening.

McGhee said Snyder's representatives sought a meeting with the tribal council and that it was arranged on short notice and lasted 45 minutes to an hour. He said Snyder and others in his group asked a series of questions relating to economic development issues facing the tribe.

"I thought the whole meeting was odd," McGhee said. "My understanding is that he would be visiting other tribes, or has visited them."

McGhee said the meeting was set up by lobbyist Jennifer Farley through another member of the tribe. Farley, founder of the Farley Group, a lobbying and political consulting firm in Washington, was associate director of the White House's Office of Intergovernmental Affairs during the George W. Bush administration and served as a liaison to state, city, county and tribal governments, according to the firm's website.
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But we want pollz!

Poarch Band of Creek Indians tribal chairman Buford Rolin sent a letter in September to Maria Cantwell, chair of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, castigating the Washington team name. "We write to express our strong opposition to the name 'Redskins,' " the letter said in part. "This term is racist and harmful and perpetuates harmful stereotypes."
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It appears we have been had by a hoax

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifes...358a76-466b-11e3-bf0c-cebf37c6f484_story.html

But what if Coach Lone Star Dietz wasn’t an Indian?

That’s what some critics of the team’s name and some historians say. They call him an impostor, citing accounts that Dietz was a German American from Wisconsin who wanted to play football as an Indian to cash in on the fame accorded athletes such as Jim Thorpe, his good friend. Dietz also served jail time for dodging the draft during World War I because he falsely registered as an Indian.
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Thought it was just white liberals who wanted the name changed? Weird

 
From the National Congress of American Indians' State of Indian Nations speech:

We want our young people to live proudly as First Americans… while also embracing, and being embraced by, non-Native America.
That’s why the mockery of Native celebrations and dress in the name of sportsmanship is not just offensive, but insidious… because it asks us to accept the denigration of our heritage. It erodes our children’s sense of self. And that is simply unacceptable.
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http://www.ncai.org/resources/testimony/2014-state-of-indian-nations
 
Just change it (as long as we get Bullets back in exchange!). Also...

MHBDemon said:
We want our young people to live proudly as First Americans… while also embracing, and being embraced by, non-Native America.
That’s why the mockery of Native celebrations and dress in the name of sportsmanship is not just offensive, but insidious… because it asks us to accept the denigration of our heritage. It erodes our children’s sense of self. And that is simply unacceptable.
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HailToTheDeacons said:
A couple members of Congress are sending a letter to Goodell today:

'The National Football League can no longer ignore this and perpetuate the use of this name as anything but what it is: a racial slur.'
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Throwing around the tax-exempt threat. Not saying they could do that without a larger fight, but that would be HUGE to the NFL to lose. And I would think all pro-sports would back the NFL in that fight, even if it's to keep an offensively named team.
 
BobStackFan4Life said:
The NFL gets tax exempt status for "educational purposes"?
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They were specifically written into the law to gain an exemption as a business organization:

In 1966, Congress altered the portion of the federal tax code dealing with 501(c)6 business organizations, which are defined as “associations of persons having some common business interest, the purpose of which is to promote such common interest and not to engage in a regular business of a kind ordinarily carried on for profit.” Read that last clause again. Does that sound like the NFL to you?

No?

Oh well. Your predecessors modified the law to specifically exempt “business leagues, chambers of commerce, real-estate boards, boards of trade and professional football leagues.” (Somewhere in heaven, an NFL lobbyist just got his wings.) As Senator Coburn has repeatedly noted, the letter of the reworded 501(c)6 law violates its spirit. Lumping pro football in with boards of trade makes no sense. “It’s a ruse,” he says of the filing status that also applies to the PGA Tour and the National Hockey League. “Compare the NFL to other trade associations. They don’t qualify at all. They’re not promoting a trade. They’re promoting themselves.”
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