And, indeed, a majority of Native Americans agree with one of us, but isn’t you.

This is such an old argument. Chief Wahoo for the Cleveland Indians and the caricature of the injun drunk on firewater and susceptible to white suggestion, St. Johns Redmen oh funny how the FSU Semenholes were magically exempted from the 2005 NCAA rule banning quote offensive team names unquote, exempted because they had a contract with the Florida Seminole tribe for approved use of the name and images which is even funnier because none of the me makem big brave FSU mascot’s Indian garb even resembes anything of traditional Seminole nation so it might as well be white guy in a frat house dressed as Fiji man in blackface and a grass skirt.

Know who else was exempted from this initial list? The San Diego State Aztecs because, the NCAA argued in their infinite wisdom, the Aztecs were not a quote North American culture unquote and as such our tut tuts over cultural harm, racism and the hangover of indigenous hegemony, man fuck all that shit let’s make some money. By this same line of reasoning we could name our new college team the Pakis because after all it is not our view of all southeast Asians as inferior physically and mentally, that is someone else’s cross (or crescent) to bear.

The point of these two examples is that even serious minded people cannot devise or enforce a policy pertaining to names and imagery that a) the organization does not want to and or b) does not invoke explicit names, words and images that are currently deemed of the worst offensive type, I don’t need to go through examples.

Redskin may have a current invocation of racism and exclusion, in the linguistic main it is simply not used offensively in a manner that touches a nerve nationwide. Therefore no matter who wants us to get rid of it, or get rid of the Buffalo Bills because of the real Buffalo Bill Cody’ historic representation as a bison hunter and how the men of that time nearly hunted them to extinction, or get rid of the Buccaneers or Pittsburgh Pirates because the scourge of piracy cost so many thousands of American lives throughout our history and still continues to ravage society in places like Sudan, unless these organizations want to change themselves, like the Bullets did in their change to the Wizards as a protest to the gun violence racking DC throughout the 80s and 90s, or unless people vote with their wallets no one is going to change anything.

Yes I think they probably should change the team name and logo, the best proposal I ever heard was to keep the colors and change the logo to a redskin potato, they can change the name to whatever the hell they want, change the colors any way they want and give the team an all new logo, it does not matter to me. This is my football team.

….when the owners of the Washington franchise way back when named the team the Redskins, they meant it as an honorific. That should mean a lot in this debate.
Also, in these “you better be politically correct or else” times, there is a lot of posturing by various groups that just want their 15 minutes (it’s a real thrill to get some attention by making someone apologize for what you term an insult, regardless of the intent of the speaker – the feminists have been busy with that for a couple decades or more).