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How about changing it too the Washington Goose Step'rs ... Washington went Nazi.... let them do it with the name change fitting to the Democrats and RINO's

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50 senators to NFL: Change Redskins' name

Published May 22, 2014Associated Press

Half the U.S. Senate urged NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell on Thursday to change the Washington Redskins' name, saying it is a racist slur and the time is ripe to replace it.
In a letter, 49 senators cited the NBA's quick action recently to ban Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling for life after he was heard on an audio recording making offensive comments about blacks. They said Goodell should formally push to rename the Redskins.
"We urge you and the National Football League to send the same clear message as the NBA did: that racism and bigotry have no place in professional sports," read the letter, which did not use the word "Redskins."
The letter comes at a time of growing pressure to change the team name, with statements in recent months from President Barack Obama, lawmakers of both parties and civil rights groups.
Redskins owner Daniel Snyder has refused to change the name, citing tradition. The franchise has been known as the Redskins since 1933, when it played in Boston.
In a written response, NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy said "diversity and inclusion" has long been a focus of the NFL.
"The intent of the team's name has always been to present a strong, positive and respectful image," McCarthy said. "The name is not used by the team or the NFL in any other context, though we respect those that view it differently."
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., led the letter-writing effort. All senators on the letter are Democrats. Cantwell spokesman Jared Leopold said Republicans were not asked to participate.
Democrats not signing the letter were Tim Kaine and Mark Warner of nearby Virginia, where the team's headquarters are; Mark Pryor of Arkansas and Mark Begich of Alaska, in tight re-election races this year; and moderate Joe Manchin of West Virginia.
Another, Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., wrote his own letter to Goodell, saying he doesn't believe that retaining the Redskins name "is appropriate in this day and age." He described himself as "one of your great fans for both the game and you personally."
The letter said tribal organizations representing more than 2 million Native Americans across the U.S. have said they want the Redskins name dropped.
Despite federal laws protecting their identity, "Every Sunday during football season, the Washington, D.C., football team mocks their culture," the senators wrote.
"The NFL can no longer ignore this and perpetuate the use of this name as anything but what it is: a racial slur," the letter said.

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NFL Responds To Harry Reid And The Other 49 Senators Who Demanded Redskins Change Their Name

By Steve Straub On May 22, 2014 · Leave a Comment · In US



Given the extent of the problems we’re facing you would think Harry Reid and company would have more important things to do than worry about the name of a football team!

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At least 40 American veterans in Phoenix may have died while waiting for care from the Veterans Administration and the investigation of secret waiting lists has now spread to 26 facilities across the country.
But Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and 48 fellow Democrats in the U.S. Senate have more pressing matters to attend to, such as urging NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to change the team name of the Washington Redskins.
Hoping to take advantage of the NBA’s ban for life of Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling for making disparaging comments about blacks, the senators signed on to a letter that said the Redskins name is a racial slur, according to The Washington Post.

Thank goodness the NFL doesn’t really care much what Harry Reid thinks about the teams name, as The Hill reports:

The NFL signaled Thursday it would not heed the call of 50 Democratic senators to support changing the name of the Washington Redskins.
The Redskins name is not used by the NFL in any other context than to present a “strong, positive and respectful image,” the league said after nearly every Democratic senator signed a letter addressed to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell.
The league said it respects the opinions of those who view it differently, pointing out that that two senators from Virginia, where the team headquarters are located, did not sign on.
“The NFL has long demonstrated a commitment to progressive leadership on issues of diversity and inclusion, both on and off the field,” NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy said in a statement. “The intent of the team’s name has always been to present a strong, positive and respectful image. The name is not used by the team or the NFL in any other context, though we respect those that view it differently.”

Do you think the Washington Redskins should keep their name or should they bow to political correctness and change it?

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Senate Uses Government Time, Money To Write Letter Against The Redskins Name

12:30 PM 05/22/2014
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Sarah Hofmann

Fifty U.S. Senators have sent a signed letter to the NFL urging them to change the name of the Washington Redskins.
The senators are all Democrats, including Elizabeth Warren, who claimed to be a Native American while working at Harvard Law School.
The letter, addressed to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, cites the recent scandal over Clippers owner Donald Sterling as impetus to reexamine the Redskins name. Five Democrats did not sign the letter: Mark Warner and Tim Kaine of Virginia, Joe Manchin of West Virginia, Joe Donnelly of Indiana and Mark Pryor of Arkansas. It was never circulated among Republicans to sign, reports the New York Times.
The letter begins, “We urge you and the National Football League to send the same clear message as the N.B.A. did: that racism and bigotry have no place in professional sports. It’s time for the NFL to endorse a name change for the Washington, D.C. football team.”
“We urge the N.F.L. to formally support a name change for the Washington football team,” the senators write.
The letter was first conceived of by Sen. Maria Cantwell, but majority leader Harry Reid was the one who made it a priority.
“I have 22 tribal organizations in Nevada,” Reid told the Times. “They are not mascots. They are human beings. And this term Redskins is offensive to them.”
The NFL said they have yet to receive this letter, but team spokesman Brian McCarthy said in a statement that the NFL ”has long demonstrated a commitment to progressive leadership on issues of diversity and inclusion, both on and off the field.”
“The intent of the team’s name has always been to present a strong, positive and respectful image. The name is not used by the team or the N.F.L. in any other context, though we respect those that view it differently.”
Redskins owner Dan Snyder has repeatedly said he will not change the name.

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Redskins Have Some Bad News for Senate Dems About Their Attempt to Foist Made-Up PC Rules on Them

By Caroline Schaeffer 8 hours ago



Washington Redskins President Bruce Allen responded to the 49 Democrats who are calling for a change to the team’s name, which they claim is racist.
According to Fox News, Allen wrote a three page letter which said the 82-year-old name is respectful of Native Americans, and that most Native Americans and Americans as a whole support the name.
Almost all of the Senate Democrats – 49 out of 53 – signed a letter addressed to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, asking him to find a way to change the name. Senate Republicans were reportedly not asked to participate.
The letter cited the NBA’s recent decision to ban Clippers owner Donald Sterling for life following the release of tapes in which he can be heard making comments about African Americans.
Allen and owner Daniel Snyder have held fast, citing the long history of the team. Additionally, Allen’s letter noted that Native American leaders designed the teams logos and that 83% of polled Americans favor keeping the name.
Via Fox News:

“Our use of `Redskins’ as the name of our football team for more than 80 years has always been respectful of and shown reverence toward the proud legacy and traditions of Native Americans.”

Democrats claim that tribal organizations representing over two million Native Americans say they want the name dropped. They have spent time on the Senate floor discussing why the name should be dropped.
The NFL has publicly supported the Redskins, saying that the team’s name has always been intended to “present a strong, positive, and respectful image.” And this makes perfect sense: Who would pick a team name that they didn’t believe honored the organization?

http://www.ijreview.com/2014/05/1414...t-change-name/

June 20, 2014

Liberals Wage War on the Redskins

By Trevor Thomas


After the regime issued its latest diktat Wednesday via a three-judge panel at the Patent and Trademark Office, which ruled 2-1 to withdraw trademark protection for the Washington Redskins, Rush Limbaugh was pretty much spot-on when he noted, “This is Barack Obama.”
Actually, this goes beyond Obama (as the Patent and Trademark Office has tried this before). This is liberalism. This is what happens when liberals have power. Take note of those who cheered the decision: “The writing is on the wall,” said a jubilant Harry Reid. He notably added that, “The name will change and justice will be done…”

Democratic Senator Maria Cantwell said, “We're so excited to know that finally people are recognizing that this issue can no longer be a business case for the NFL to use this patent.” What the Democrats should be excited about is that, for however brief a period of time, they don’t have to answer questions about Iraq, Benghazi, the IRS, an illegal immigrant invasion, and the like.

When it comes to public opinion on this issue, virtually every poll ever taken shows overwhelming support for the Redskins name. Even in the most liberal place in the country, Washington D.C. -- which happens to be the home city for the team -- two-thirds polled say the team’s name should not change.

What’s more, Native Americans in general support the name. Late last year, CBS Sports in D.C. reported on a poll that revealed 90% support for the Redskins name among Native Americans. In addition, dozens of American high schools use “Redskins” as their mascot. Most telling is the fact that, in almost all of these high schools, the majority of the students are Native American. Kingston High School in Oklahoma -- where about 58% of the student body is Native American -- has used the Redskins name for over a century. Speaking of Oklahoma, the word itself is derived from Choctaw words that translate “red people.”

Yet liberals, as they so often do, insist that this is a shameless act of racism by one of the most prominent sports teams in the U.S. As is typical with so many things liberal, the cries of “racism” defy common sense. What racist (or supposed racist) would want to use a derisive term of a people they despise as their mascot or symbol for something in which they take great pride? Eighty years ago can you imagine the KKK organizing a softball team and using the n-word for their team name?

As the Wall Street Journal smartly pointed out, “If names were meant to convey dislike -- of, say, Vikings, Yankees or the Irish -- then Redskins owner Dan Snyder would have converted to the Washington Harry Reids years ago.”

My high school alma mater uses “Warriors” as our mascot. I have more than a few yearbooks that are adorned with a handsome and regal Native American “Warrior.” My 27-year-old letterman’s jacket has the following patch on the shoulder of the right sleeve:

For years I wore it proudly, never imagining that the Warrior stood for anything other than something mighty, fierce, and brave. I suppose I must now pay reparations for the harm that my faux leather sleeves have inflicted on our culture.

The most telling thing about this brazen act of authoritarianism is that liberals actually perceive this as a moral issue. USA Today reported on the patent ruling and made reference to the Mid-Atlantic Church of Christ’s decision to boycott the Redskins as a “moral issue.” After the ruling, the “Change the Mascot” campaign issued a statement saying “If the most basic sense of morality, decency and civility has not yet convinced the Washington team and the NFL to stop using this hateful slur, then hopefully today’s patent ruling will…”

Earlier this year Think Progress, a liberal blog, reported on a poll by Public Policy Polling, a liberal polling organization, which revealed that 71% of Americans don’t want the Redskins to change their name. Unable to argue with such support, Think Progress decided to lecture its readers rhetorically, asking, “Does it really matter that a majority of Americans don’t consider the name offensive? Given our country’s history, is public opinion really the way we want to settle questions of offense or injustice on racial and ethnic grounds?”

In April of this year, Harry Reid took to the Senate floor and told Redskins owner Daniel Snyder that he should “do what is morally right” and change the name. All of a sudden the Democrats actually want to appeal to justice and a moral standard on an issue rather than public opinion, or the courts, or a board of liberal lackeys.

All one needs to know is that the moral code employed by liberals in this matter is the same one that has allowed for the slaughter of tens of millions of Americans in their mothers’ wombs, that tells us that homosexual sex is good and right, that a redefinition of the sacred institution of marriage is necessary and just, that it is immoral to refer to someone born with testicles as a man, that guns are immoral, and that it is “compassionate” to confiscate forcibly the wealth of one and give it to another. So yes, please, let us actually debate the morality and the justness of “Redskins” and all of these matters. Let us each clearly cast our moral standards before the American people, the courts, and most importantly, the Creator and see where we stand.

Trevor Grant Thomas At the Intersection of Politics, Science, Faith, and Reason.
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All one needs to know is that the moral code employed by liberals in this matter is the same one that has allowed for the slaughter of tens of millions of Americans in their mothers’ wombs, that tells us that homosexual sex is good and right, that a redefinition of the sacred institution of marriage is necessary and just, that it is immoral to refer to someone born with testicles as a man, that guns are immoral, and that it is “compassionate” to confiscate forcibly the wealth of one and give it to another. So yes, please, let us actually debate the morality and the justness of “Redskins” and all of these matters. Let us each clearly cast our moral standards before the American people, the courts, and most importantly, the Creator and see where we stand.

Yes let us do that!! Of course with the wacko's we have running our court system we should beware and dread carefully on that score!!!!

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15 hours ago

Harry Reid Gleefully Cheers Patent Office Yanking Redskins Trademark




The most vocal opponent to the Redskins team name and owner, Harry Reid, was seen on the floor of the Senate today cheering the Patent and Trademark Office’s decision to yank the team’s trademarks.


The most vocal opponent to the Redskins team name and owner, Harry Reid, was seen on the floor of the Senate today cheering the Patent and Trademark Office’s decision to yank the team’s trademarks. He was joined by fellow Senate Democrat, Maria Cantwell, in lauding the government stripping a private business of its free speech rights, shocker right?


According to RollCall, Cantwell started by criticizing the Redskins moniker as a racial slur.


“We’re so excited to know that finally people are recognizing that this issue can no longer be a business case for the NFL to use this patent,” Cantwell said. “They will not be able to forcefully exclude other people from having derivatives of this logo or the name.


“This is not the end of this case, but this is a landmark decision by the Patent Office that says that the NFL team here in Washington, DC, does not have a patentable name, and that this is an offensive term, not patentable by the patent office,” Cantwell continued.


Once she finished her victory lap, Reid took the floor and said “it’s just a matter of time before [Snyder’s] forced to change the name.”

“There are 27 tribes in the state of Nevada, Native Americans. The issue of the name Redskins is very important to every one of those tribes,” Reid said.

“Every time they hear this name is a sad reminder of a long tradition of racism and bigotry.”


Reid then accused Snyder of trying to bribe one of the Nevada tribes with a car but his offer was refused.


“Daniel Snyder says it’s about tradition. I ask, what tradition? The tradition of racism is all that that name leaves in its wake,” said Reid. “The writing is on the wall. It’s on the wall in giant blinking neon lights. The name will change.”


Do you think the Redskins should change their name? Let us know with a comment!

H/T: Mr. Conservative

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Every time I hear the name Harry Reid, a get a sad reminder that he is my Senator, so I feel the same!!!!! Again they are using a government agency's (the Patent Office) to go after a long time American business!!!! What is next outlawing the calling of redskin peanuts, redskin peanuts?? Quess we can always call them Reid Nuts!!!