Stress Welker
All Star
Noticed I spelled racist wrong in the thread title and poll. 
Washington DC Mayor Says Redskins Name Is Racest & Should Change Name
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The War Report
NewNewYork
Apache Helicopters, Tomahawk cruise missiles, yelling Geronimo when jumping out of a plane, The Cleveland Indians, The Chiefs, The Blackhawks hockey team, etc. Whites are a bunch of dikkriders. They made a mockery out of them, forever immortalized as some shytty ass logo or a weapon of destruction.
BigE214
Future GOAT
Washington Cornballs 
Carlos Huerta
Just keep my rep red
Why is the name Cleveland Indians racist? You are all saying that simply using the word that describes a particular race of people is racist?
Majestic Pape
The-Coli = W SOHH = L
You think it's a coincidence we don't have the Columbus Blacks or the Mississippi Whites or the Arizona Mexicans?
InvictusAeternusEternus
In the cut
To answer the question no they shouldnt change it. They aint wanna fund a new stadium in DC and still dont as far as I know. Matter fact scrap that they should change the name to the Maryland Redskins see how that fruit booty mayor likes that sh!t !
Also I have never seen, read, or heard the term "redskin" used to describe a Native American before. Has anyone ?
Bone Bender
Superstar
They should change it. Its not only racist but you gotta think that all the terrible shyt thats happened to the franchise is due to some Native American curse.
courtdog
Drinks Blood from a Boot
yeah its racist af. its like if the raiders were called the oakland c00ns
at the same time tho, redskins doesnt have the same bite cuz its not used in a derogatory manner anymore
A better question would be when has it EVER been used as a derogatory word
Actually believing native american people have the ability to put curses on a team is more ridiculous and ignorant than the team's name.
Bone Bender
Superstar
Yeah but they have spiritual powers and shyt.█ W.D.Y.D. █;2838300 said:
courtdog
Drinks Blood from a Boot
The only thing more ignorant than the team's name is being ignorant to how the team was named█ W.D.Y.D. █;2838300 said:
Language Log: The Origin of Redskin
That link goes into the court case, what evidence was presented. How fukkboys acting all PC today trying say fakkits good and chick-fil-a is badOne interesting piece of evidence is the origin of the name Washington Redskins. In 1933, George Preston Marshall, the owner of the team, which was then located in Boston, renamed it the Boston Redskins in honor of the head coach, William "Lone Star" Dietz,an American Indian.³ When the team moved to Washington in 1937 it was renamed the Washington Redskins. George Marshall clearly did not consider the name disparaging.
The term redskin of course goes much farther back than 1933. The details of this history have recently been explored by Ives Goddard of the Smithsonian Institution, in a paper conveniently available on-line. Some of the evidence is available in greater detail on Goddard's web site. You can read speeches by the Meskwaki chief Black Thunder and the Omaha chief Big Elk in which the expression redskin is used, and early nineteenth century examples of the Meskwaki usage of terms meaning redskin and whiteskin.
I won't review the evidence in detail because Goddard's paper is short enough and accessible enough that if you are interested you should read it yourself. I'll just summarize it. Goddard shows that the term redskin is a translation from native American languages of a term used by native Americans for themselves. Harjo's claim that it "had its origins in the practice of presenting bloody red skins and scalps as proof of Indian kill for bounty payments" is unsupported by any evidence.⁴ The term entered popular usage via the novels of James Fenimore Cooper. In the early- to mid-nineteenth century the term was neutral, not pejorative, and indeed was often used in contexts in which whites spoke of Indians in positive terms. Goddard concludes:
Cooper's use of redskin as a Native American in-group term was entirely authentic, reflecting both the accurate perception of the Indian self-image and the evolving respect among whites for the Indians' distinct cultural perspective, whatever its prospects. The descent of this word into obloquy is a phenomenon of more recent times.
The real question is when have you heard somebody call somebody a Redskin and you thought something other than the Wash Redskins
If somebody yelled out "You Redskin" I'd think he saw Alfred Morris
Bone Bender
Superstar
RGIII slipped on some ancient Indian bone dust and fukked his knee up.There curse got us 3 Super Bowls
Some curse huh?