Simple poll: Should the "Redskins" remain the "Redskins"

[godkiller]

Yeah.

 

[Illeye buckmatic]

Yeah.

 

[the cac mamba]

.

 

[AVXL]

Yeah.

*waits for @Mr swag to tell us that this Eagles fan is somehow honoring the Redskins & Native American history in this country*

 

[FAH1223]

Re-name it to the Washington Skins.

Keep it burgundy and gold.

I think the controversy comes from the "Red"

 

[SHAQAVELLI]

Re-name it to the Washington Skins.

Keep it burgundy and gold.

I think the controversy comes from the "Red"

I c/s this. I don't think Redskins is meant to be taken in a racist manner, but what the hell do I know. However, it's pretty obvious to see how it can be taken as a racist insult. I think my first point about not caring mostly has to do with us hearing "Redskins" on sports TV and reading it in the paper since we were kids.

But "Skins" sounds OK a lot of people already abbreviate it that way anyway.

 

[AVXL]

I c/s this. I don't think Redskins is meant to be taken in a racist manner, but what the hell do I know. However, it's pretty obvious to see how it can be taken as a racist insult. I think my first point about not caring mostly has to do with us hearing "Redskins" on sports TV and reading it in the paper since we were kids.

But "Skins" sounds OK a lot of people already abbreviate it that way anyway.

It's clearly intended & designed to be a racist epithet to Native Americans. I don't think Skins should be a part of a new name...DC has great traditions & history, they really can't come up with a name for a team that reflects that?

 

[Optimus Prime]

no, they can keep the colors, just take the Indian off the helmet and "skins" out the name. "Washington Reds". Fans will still call them the Redskins but they just need to take it off the letterhead...

 

[AkaDemiK]

reading through the thread i forgot the title was "should they remain the redskins" and confused it for "should the redskins change their name" and voted yes. Smh. The name should have been changed YEARS ago, it's racist and offensive...that shyt is foul.

 

[HHR]

I c/s this. I don't think Redskins is meant to be taken in a racist manner, but what the hell do I know. However, it's pretty obvious to see how it can be taken as a racist insult. I think my first point about not caring mostly has to do with us hearing "Redskins" on sports TV and reading it in the paper since we were kids.

The owner who changed the name to Redskins in 1933 just happened to be a notoriously vile racist.

Excerpt:

When George Preston Marshall died in 1969, he left some money to his children but directed that the bulk of his estate be used to set up a foundation in his name. He attached, however, one firm condition: that the foundation, operating out of Washington, D.C., should not direct a single dollar toward “any purpose which supports or employs the principle of racial integration in any form.” Think about that. This was not 1929 or 1949. Even in 1960 such a diktat might have been, well, “understandable” in a Southern city such as Washington then was. But 1969; “in any form.”

(He) ordered the Redskins marching band to play “Dixie” right before “The Star-Spangled Banner” prior to every game—up into the 1960s. And who probably instigated the banning of black athletes from the NFL from 1933 until 1946. I say “probably” because the league’s owners at the time always kept it a deep secret, but Thomas G. Smith, who wrote a 2011 book about all this, got as close as a person could get to putting Marshall at the center of the ban

 

[THE MACHINE]

Change it to Warriors and keep it moving. Let's roll out our throwback spear helmet uniforms and get back to dominating this NFC east

 

[Phantom]

voted yes by accident but yeah they should change up their name and logo. it wouldn't be the first time a sport's team changed their name and logo. the cleveland indians should do this too since they got that sambo lookin logo.

 

[mrken12]

Only once they change the Celtics name and logo. Same for the Knicks/ Knickerbockers. That's too close.

But I don't think there should be a name change.

 

[SHAQAVELLI]

Only once they change the Celtics name and logo. Same for the Knicks/ Knickerbockers. That's too close.

But I don't think there should be a name change.

Excuse my ignorance, breh, but I'm not sure I'm familiar with the story behind Knickerboxers...

 

[Theo Penn]

Redskins sounds fine to me.