New York Daily News on the Redskins: "Sack the name"

[alp227]

The Daily News publishes its annual, best-in-the-city National Football League preview on Thursday with one deliberate omission — the Washington franchise appears without the name Redskins.

Similarly, its logo depicting a feathered Native American has been replaced with an image that uses the team’s burgundy and gold colors to key readers to stories, columns and statistics relating to Washington.

Henceforth, in The News’ sports coverage, the team that has been known as the Redskins since 1933 will simply be called Washington.

Enormously popular and deeply ingrained in sporting culture, the Redskins name is a throwback to a vanished era of perniciously casual racial attitudes. No new franchise would consider adopting a name based on pigmentation — Whiteskins, Blackskins, Yellowskins or Redskins — today. The time has come to leave the word behind.

full: http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/sack-article-1.1926865

[frylock]

1. saw a BS commercial here in philly the other night for a site called "redskinfacts.com"

FACT: some native american guy designed the logo.
FACT: some percentage of native americans are all cools with the name.
FACT: 83% of people nationally (consisting mostly of white folks, i'm sure) don't think the name should be changed.

FACT: none of that makes a damn bit of difference. just change the name already. fuck Daniel Snyder.