Right Wing Media Propagandist Frank Luntz Hired To Tackle Washington Redskins Racist Moniker Problem

[Fred Sanders]

Can guest appearances on Fox News be far behind for Luntz and the rest of the Redskins and NFL brass defending the indefensible?

Redskins Paying Team Of Republican Advisers For Advice On Name Controversy

http://thinkprogress.org/sports/2014/01/31/3236911/redskins-paying-team-republican-advisers-advice-controversy/

[Are_grits_groceries]

1. This will not end well.

Minorities, especially in DC, are huge Redskin's supporters.
Whether they want a name change or not, hiring morans with a history of anti-minority actions is not a good PR move.
Daniel Snyder is one of the dumbest owners on the face of of the Earth.

[Fred Sanders]

2. Daniel Snyder is trapped within his own white privilege, he is the generational product

of slave owner American history.

Kill The Indian, Save The Man

The etymology of the word “Redskin” is, according to a study from Smithsonian Institution Native American language historian Ives Goddard, “entirely benign.” Native Americans, Goddard found, were the originators of the term, which they used to set themselves apart from people new to their land. By the early 1860s, however, whites had co-opted the term as a racial descriptor at best and, at worst, as a slur. A newspaper in Winona, Minnesota used the word as part of a bounty notice published in its evening edition on September 24, 1863. The notice, provided by the National Congress of American Indians, which claims it has been independently verified, read:

THE State reward for dead Indians has been increased to $200 for every red-skin sent to Purgatory. This sum is more than the dead bodies of all the Indians east of the Red River are worth.

Sixteen years later, a United States Army Captain named Richard Henry Pratt founded Carlisle Indian School, one of the first in a wave of Indian boarding schools meant to help the U.S. government solve its “Indian problem.” Many whites at the time believed that the only way to deal with Indians was to educate and assimilate them into Euro-centric American culture. Indians could be “saved,” but only if whites eradicated their cultural backgrounds. Carlisle, in the words of its founder, existed to “Kill the Indian…and save the man.”

[Are_grits_groceries]

3. I very seriously doubt that Dan Snyder

has been really considering historical issues. What you have posted wouldn't cause him a bit of sweat if he would even read it.

He is a stubborn jackass determined not to let anybody tell him what to do. The change from the Redskin nickname would not be cost prohibitive. He doesn't want to spend one dime towards that.

I'm sure he has a well-defined sense of deserved privilege. However, he is not that deep a thinker in other ways.

[11 Bravo]

4. Agreed. Also it is frequently overlooked here that many Native Americans don't favor a name change.

I have seen some polls which indicate that they are a substantial majority.
But in any case, I believe that until Snyder sells the team, my Skins are never going to win anything!