Needless to say if there was a National Football League Team named the Washington Kykes, or the Washington Spics, or the Washington Dagos, or the Washington Wops or the Washington Wetbacks then folks might not like it. It is is true that when the Washington Redskins were named there might not have been a lot of protest.(Perhaps certain affected constituency's had been decimated and silenced) . There certainly were learned and enlightened and educated men and women in these United States at the time who knew the true cultural meaning of the term. Consider that of all places to even have established the name, the Nation's capitol should not have been the best location. On the other hand perhaps the name was wisely chosen. How did a few colonies up and down the eastern seaboard "expand" to the Pacific. Maybe a few redskins were acquired through legal draft iterations, trades, land swaps, wars, marketing campaigns not to mention blood sweat and tears. We could change the name of the team to the Washington Terrorists to satisfy the trade mark concerns but these are politically correct times !
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