Shook Controversy

There are many important issues that are relevant in recent news, like sexism, or the controversy over the confederate flag. One thing that has caught many people’s attention in the sports world and all over is the Redskins name and logo. The issue is that their name and logo(an Indian head) is considered to be racist towards Native Americans. This has been seen as degrading and stereotyping Native Americans. The Redskins name may seem like a small issue just important to football fans but this leads to much greater problems we are facing. The Redskins were asked to change their name and logo to something that was not insulting to anyone. The Redskins however did not agree to this and they decided to keep their name, this caused an even bigger …show more content…
This led to the government taking the Redskin trademark away from the team. The government did this because then anyone could legally take the name or use it and sell it with the logo. The issue about the Redskins name and logo relates to many other topics surrounding the big picture of equality for everyone. Many other topics have come up to increase equality and decrease prejudice and stereotypes. This example of the Redskins is one of the many smaller issues that have become one big issue over the past few years. One of the main issues that come out of this topic is equality, and whether or not certain things are considered equal to all or just equal to some. The big issue over the Redskins controversy is racism. Their name and logo can be insulting to Native Americans because of their history and the statistics today. The history of the name “redskin” has been known to be an offensive way of calling someone a Native American. Just like the way of the word “chink” being offensive to an Asian person. However, there are other views of this issue on how it is not really an issue at