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Congressional bill aims to get NFL to change the name 'Redskins'
« on: September 10, 2015, 08:20:25 pm »
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/10/us-nfl-redskins-congress-idUSKCN0RA2HG20150910

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The District of Columbia's congresswoman on Thursday introduced a bill to strip the NFL of its federal antitrust protection as long as it allows Washington's football team to use the name "Redskins," a moniker some see as racist.

Representative Eleanor Holmes Norton said the National Football League and Washington's football team "should not be benefitting financially from federal antitrust exemptions while they continue to promote a disparaging moniker that has been found by legal authorities to be a racial slur."

A federal judge in July upheld an earlier decision by the United States Patent and Trademark Office that the name is "disparaging to Native Americans" and is thus ineligible for federal trademark registration.

Norton, a Democrat, said in a statement "the name of the nation’s capital, Washington, should always be associated with pride, not with a moniker that mocks and insults Native Americans."

Calling the name an "embarrassment to the league and to the country," Norton said NFL
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Re: Congressional bill aims to get NFL to change the name 'Redskins'
« Reply #1 on: September 10, 2015, 08:26:37 pm »
It's good news that the country is so lacking in problems, that Congress has time to take this up.
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Re: Congressional bill aims to get NFL to change the name 'Redskins'
« Reply #2 on: September 10, 2015, 08:41:30 pm »
Quote from: Relic on September 10, 2015, 08:26:37 pm
It's good news that the country is so lacking in problems, that Congress has time to take this up.
All this is distraction for the masses while the  world catches fire.
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Re: Congressional bill aims to get NFL to change the name 'Redskins'
« Reply #3 on: September 10, 2015, 09:52:38 pm »
Rename the team to:

SKINS

(get it?)
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Re: Congressional bill aims to get NFL to change the name 'Redskins'
« Reply #4 on: September 11, 2015, 09:01:04 pm »
The 'Skins should threaten to name the team "Foreskins" - after Congress.
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Re: Congressional bill aims to get NFL to change the name 'Redskins'
« Reply #5 on: September 11, 2015, 09:42:27 pm »
Quote from: Relic on September 10, 2015, 08:26:37 pm
It's good news that the country is so lacking in problems, that Congress has time to take this up.

No crap.  Iran just got it's nuke deal, sanctions lifted, and over $100 billion and they're worrying about the name of a stupid NFL team?  God help us.
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Re: Congressional bill aims to get NFL to change the name 'Redskins'
« Reply #6 on: September 11, 2015, 09:48:43 pm »
Quote from: libertybele on September 11, 2015, 09:42:27 pm
No crap.  Iran just got it's nuke deal, sanctions lifted, and over $100 billion and they're worrying about the name of a stupid NFL team?  God help us.

It's no wonder Trump is resonating like a tuning fork.
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Re: Congressional bill aims to get NFL to change the name 'Redskins'
« Reply #7 on: September 11, 2015, 10:12:49 pm »
It's not the name "Redskins" that is an embarrassment to the country, it's the government of the country that is an embarrassment to the country.
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Re: Congressional bill aims to get NFL to change the name 'Redskins'
« Reply #8 on: September 11, 2015, 10:21:46 pm »
Quote from: Scottftlc on September 11, 2015, 10:12:49 pm
It's not the name "Redskins" that is an embarrassment to the country, it's the government of the country that is an embarrassment to the country.
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Re: Congressional bill aims to get NFL to change the name 'Redskins'
« Reply #9 on: September 11, 2015, 11:22:42 pm »
Quote from: PzLdr on September 11, 2015, 09:01:04 pm
The 'Skins should threaten to name the team "Foreskins" - after Congress.

It wouldn't quite work - there's no end to those pricks.
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Re: Congressional bill aims to get NFL to change the name 'Redskins'
« Reply #10 on: September 11, 2015, 11:24:17 pm »
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Norton, a Democrat, said in a statement "the name of the nation’s capital, Washington, should always be associated with pride, not with a moniker that mocks and insults Native Americans."

Does Ms. Norton realize that "Washington" is named after a honky cracka?   :laugh:



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Re: Congressional bill aims to get NFL to change the name 'Redskins'
« Reply #11 on: September 12, 2015, 04:06:43 am »
Quote from: alicewonders on September 11, 2015, 11:24:17 pm
Does Ms. Norton realize that "Washington" is named after a honky cracka?   :laugh:





It would be too much to expect an idiot like Ms. Horton to know U.S. history, aside from ":Pay us reparations", but she should realize that it was the guy D.C. is named after, who ordered Gen. Sullivan to burn out the Iroquois in 1778, which resulted in many of the Confederation being forced to emigrate to Canada, and which broke their power forever. And their name for him is not associated with pride. He also sent St. Clair and "Mad Anthony" Wayne after the Ohio Indians.
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