The Washington Redskins have been an established team since 1932. Since establishment the Redskins have played in over 1,000 games. Each game they have used the same team name and the same general logo. Of late, the Redskin name and logo has stirred up controversy on whether or not it is a demeaning team name. The courts should appeal their ruling and the Washington Redskins should keep their team name and logo. On June 18,2014, The Trademark Trial and Appeals Board voted to cancel all six trademarks the team had. The Board found that the term “Redskin” is derogatory to 30 percent of The National Congress of American Indians. The Board then concluded that that amount of people was enough to cancel the trademarks. (NPR.org) Since, The Washington
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In the web article “Ruling: 8 Ways ‘Redskin’ Is a Slur” their number four reason for qualifying redskin as a racial slur is “In a search of major newspapers, magazine, and journals between the years 1969 and 1996, the “Redskins” appeared 143,920 times. However, the expert noted that these were Overwhelmingly to be in the context of sport. Less than two percent of results were actually used to describe Native …show more content…
According to Espn.go.com In an Oklahoma high school the student body is made up of 57.7 percent Native Americans. This particular high school has worn the redskin logo and has the Redskin name on their helmet and jerseys for 104 years. They have used the Redskin name and logo all those years without complaint, but with honor. And another school located in Redmesa, Arizona are known as the Redskins. That schools Native American student body makes up 99.3% of all students who attend there (Espn.go.com). If they took the redskin name offensive one would think that something would have been done about it. The high school in Oklahoma has a name much like the redskins. The name Oklahoma translates to “red people” in Choctaw (Espn.go.com). If redskins are to be barred from being the name of a team why should a similar name be allowed? Just because it is a different language should it be
In the web article “Ruling: 8 Ways ‘Redskin’ Is a Slur” their number four reason for qualifying redskin as a racial slur is “In a search of major newspapers, magazine, and journals between the years 1969 and 1996, the “Redskins” appeared 143,920 times. However, the expert noted that these were Overwhelmingly to be in the context of sport. Less than two percent of results were actually used to describe Native …show more content…
According to Espn.go.com In an Oklahoma high school the student body is made up of 57.7 percent Native Americans. This particular high school has worn the redskin logo and has the Redskin name on their helmet and jerseys for 104 years. They have used the Redskin name and logo all those years without complaint, but with honor. And another school located in Redmesa, Arizona are known as the Redskins. That schools Native American student body makes up 99.3% of all students who attend there (Espn.go.com). If they took the redskin name offensive one would think that something would have been done about it. The high school in Oklahoma has a name much like the redskins. The name Oklahoma translates to “red people” in Choctaw (Espn.go.com). If redskins are to be barred from being the name of a team why should a similar name be allowed? Just because it is a different language should it be