Redskins Name Roundly Criticized as Racist During Smithsonian Event
'Some names just degrade all of us,' says former Sen. Nighthorse Campbell.
Kelyn Soong Capital News Service The Washington Redskins team name was lambasted as “racist” and “demeaning” during a daylong symposium Thursday at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian. The symposium, entitled “Racist Stereotypes and Cultural Appropriation in American Sports,” featured Native American activists, museum administrators and local journalists who discussed the impact of team names like the Redskins on Native Americans. “There is a very insidious quality...of viewing Native Americans as savages, as playthings,” said N. Bruce Duthu, a professor of Native American Studies at Dartmouth University. The panel, which included several Native Americans, shared their personal experiences with racism and criticized …
Nicholas Trift
4:27 pm on Friday, March 8, 2013
Go after the cleveland Indians and the Atlanta Braves before the skins. They're EXCEDINGLY RACIST by this logic. more ›