Robert Seeberger wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jan Coffey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 8:21 PM
> Subject: Raceism
>
> > Today on the news we learned that questioning hype around a quarterback is
> > racesist,
>
> UH.....that is not what happened, what was said, or even what is claimed.
>
> > but naming a team after an ethnic group which doe not desire to
> > have the team named after them is not.
>
> Actually it isn't. For one thing, those who are complaining tend to live in
> places other than the Washington DC area, so they really have no say in the
> naming of a sports team in Washington DC.
>
> Another point is that this complaint is a recent phenomena, only surfacing
> in the last couple of decades, while the name has been in use for at least 4
> times longer. Where were the complaints when the team was first named?
Was *anyone* complaining about that sort of thing in the 1930s? Because
I think that franchise dates back that far. (1937? Anyone know?)
Julia
whose mother was born in DC and raised to root for the Redskins
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