The Kansas City Star refuses to publish 'Redskins'

Exactly. And when did it become OK for newspapers to stop being objective.

 

Exactly that, too. And the public editor's writing seems awfully pretentious.

 

They could go the Gregg Eastabrook route and call them "The Potomic Drainage Basin Indigenous Persons"
I agree the team should change their name. Unlike with Florida State and Central Michigan, Washington's NFL team isn't honoring a specific tribe. My sister is a graduate of CMU and every few years there is a push to change the nickname and more often than not the Saginaw Bay Band of Chippewa Indians voices support for the teams using the name. I think in the case of most other colleges using tribal names, the tribe has OK'd the use of the name.
But in the case of the Redskins, what tribe is being honored? None. There is a line between honoring a culture and playing up its negative stereotypes. If the Star wants to call out the franchise for 80 years of using a racist nickname, they should.

 

And given what we know about the founding Redskins owner George Preston Marshall, we can doubt that he came up with the name as a homage to Native Americans.

 

Yeah, quite the brave battle by a newspaper halfway across the country. Downright fucking courageous.

Especially one a town where the NFL team is named the Chiefs.

 

This paper has put on such airs for a long time. Not surprising.

 

It's a racist nickname. When a paper omits an offensive word from a quote, or chooses not to run the n-word, do you question their objectivity? Same case here. They view the name as offensive, as a vulgarity. Calling into question their objectivity is a weak argument that holds no weight.

 

Does anyone have a problem with the NBA logo that has a white guy from West Virginia, crew cut and all, that represents a league with deep history in the African American community?

 

Apples and ashtrays

 

No, but I get incensed when I see newspapers that don't know "white trash" has racist implications.

 

They had (or still do; not sure) a similar policy with the Cleveland Indians, too. That made things interesting when they used the cap for each team in preview boxes for the upcoming game; if I remember correctly they ran a plan blue cap in place of the Chief Wahoo cap.

 

It's The Oregonian that has a policy against using Indians or Redskins, or Warriors if it's a Native American reference. Policy has been in place for at least 15 years.