Redskins
28 pieces tagged “Redskins”, newest first.
Redskins Surrender, Change Name
“It made us all so proud to have an Indian on a big-time team.” —Walter Wetzel, 2002
SCOTUS Rules in Favor of Free Speech
Court rules that the government can’t deny trademark rights based on what it deems to be disparaging and offensive.
Native Americans Give Redskins Name Collective Yawn
Some 90% don’t find the mascot troubling. Washington Post editors hardest hit.
Out With ‘Redskins’ — and Everything Else!
Autumn, season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, also is the time for The Washington Post and other sensitivity auditors to get back on — if they will pardon the expression — the warpath against the name of the Washington Redskins. The niceness police at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office have won court approval of their decision that the team’s name “may disparage” Native Americans. We have a new national passion for moral and historical hygiene, a determination to scrub away remembrances of unpleasant things, such as the name Oklahoma, which is a compound of two Choctaw words meaning “red” and “people.”