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While many have called on Washington Redskins owner Daniel Snyder to change the team’s name, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D, Calif.) is proposing an alternate strategy: hitting Snyder’s wallet.Pelosi, speaking Thursday at an event hosted by the National Congress of American Indians, called for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to tell the NFL that the league can’t keep the registered trademark for the Washington Redskins. The trademark prevents unlicensed vendors from making and selling merchandise with the team name and logo.During her speech, Pelosi said:“We all respect freedom of speech, but the trademark office has rejected names which are considered offensive and they should do it now. They can keep their name on the team, but when it comes to all the stuff — that’s serious money. So I think that is one path that we can go.”
Beyond stupidity.
Cleveland Indians, Atlanta Braves, Kansas City Chiefs, just to name a few more.
How about the "Washington Forked-Tongues" instead
Let's get rid of team names that insult other groups, too, like Cowboys and Vikings. "Patriots" is a bad name too - the IRS says so.And then we can go after college teams, starting with the Fighting Irish.
Nonononono, Vikings were white, cowboys are seen as having been majority white, and since whites have no culture, whites cannot be oppressed because reasons and feelz.
Though popularly considered American, the traditional cowboy began with the Spanish tradition, which evolved further in what today is Mexico and the Southwestern United States into the vaquero of northern Mexico and the charro of the Jalisco and Michoacán regions. While most hacendados (ranch owners) were ethnically Spanish criollos,[22] many early vaqueros were Native Americans trained to work for the Spanish missions in caring for the mission herds.[23] Vaqueros went north with livestock. In 1598, Don Juan de Oñate sent an expedition across the Rio Grande into New Mexico, bringing along 7000 head of cattle. From this beginning, vaqueros of mestizo heritage drove cattle from New Mexico and later Texas to Mexico City.[24] Mexican traditions spread both South and North, influencing equestrian traditions from Argentina to Canada.Rise of the cowboyAs English-speaking traders and settlers expanded westward, English and Spanish traditions, language and culture merged to some degree. Before the Mexican-American War in 1848, New England merchants who traveled by ship to California encountered both hacendados and vaqueros, trading manufactured goods for the hides and tallow produced from vast cattle ranches. American traders along what later became known as the Santa Fe Trail had similar contacts with vaquero life. Starting with these early encounters, the lifestyle and language of the vaquero began a transformation which merged with English cultural traditions and produced what became known in American culture as the "cowboy".[25]
Well, I give you Vikings, but wait!It appears that Cowboy is just the direct translation of Vanquero, and thus racist towards those of spanish and latino decent!( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy )Hey, it makes just as much sense as 'redskin' being racist.
More politically motivated butthurtedness.http://www.newson6.com/story/24919263/daughter-of-okla-governor-defends-headdress-photoI suspect that if she was not the daughter of a Republican governor this would never have been an issue.
So if they renamed the team this or the Washington Hypocrits, what would the logo be? I would suggest the weasel, but that would be insulting to weasels.
