MARYLAND (AP) — The recent national debate over racism has renewed calls for the NFL’s Washington Redskins to change their name, with Native American advocates believing the climate is right for action despite no evidence owner Dan Snyder is considering it.
It could take pressure from the other 31 owners and the league office itself to force Snyder’s hand. A Redskins spokesman said the team had no comment, while the NFL did not immediately respond to questions about the future of the name.
“(It) might be easier if the NFL as an institution or a corporation mandates the change because then it takes the pressure off of the Washington team themselves and Dan Snyder,” University of California, Berkeley, assistant professor of psychology Arianne Eason said Wednesday.
MARYLAND (AP) — The recent national debate over racism has renewed calls for the NFL’s Washington Redskins to change their name, with Native American advocates believing the climate is right for action despite no evidence owner Dan Snyder is considering it.
It could take pressure from the other 31 owners and the league office itself to force Snyder’s hand. A Redskins spokesman said the team had no comment, while the NFL did not immediately respond to questions about the future of the name.
“(It) might be easier if the NFL as an institution or a corporation mandates the change because then it takes the pressure off of the Washington team themselves and Dan Snyder,” University of California, Berkeley, assistant professor of psychology Arianne Eason said Wednesday.
Edit Sambo's was an American restaurant chain, started in 1957 by Sam Battistone Sr. and Newell Bohnett in Santa Barbara, California.[1] Though the name was taken from portions of the names of its founders, the chain soon found itself associated with The Story of Little Black Sambo. Battistone and Bohnett capitalized on this connection by decorating the walls of the restaurants with scenes from the book, including a dark-skinned boy, tigers, and a pale, magical unicycle-riding man called "The Treefriend". By the early 1960s, the illustrations depicted a light-skinned boy wearing a jeweled Indian-style turban with the tigers. A kids club, Sambo's Tiger Tamers (later called the Tiger Club), promoted the chain's family image. The chain filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in November 1981.[2] All locations except for the first in Santa Barbara either closed outright, or were renamed after being purchased, effectively ending the chain's existence.
There is still a Lil Sambo’s in Lincoln City, OR but if predates the chain from Santa Barbara.
MARYLAND (AP) — The recent national debate over racism has renewed calls for the NFL’s Washington Redskins to change their name, with Native American advocates believing the climate is right for action despite no evidence owner Dan Snyder is considering it.
It could take pressure from the other 31 owners and the league office itself to force Snyder’s hand. A Redskins spokesman said the team had no comment, while the NFL did not immediately respond to questions about the future of the name.
“(It) might be easier if the NFL as an institution or a corporation mandates the change because then it takes the pressure off of the Washington team themselves and Dan Snyder,” University of California, Berkeley, assistant professor of psychology Arianne Eason said Wednesday.
MARYLAND (AP) — The recent national debate over racism has renewed calls for the NFL’s Washington Redskins to change their name, with Native American advocates believing the climate is right for action despite no evidence owner Dan Snyder is considering it.
It could take pressure from the other 31 owners and the league office itself to force Snyder’s hand. A Redskins spokesman said the team had no comment, while the NFL did not immediately respond to questions about the future of the name.
“(It) might be easier if the NFL as an institution or a corporation mandates the change because then it takes the pressure off of the Washington team themselves and Dan Snyder,” University of California, Berkeley, assistant professor of psychology Arianne Eason said Wednesday.
Yale is literally named after a man who made his money in the early slave trade. Tear the entire campus down? It’s one big racist monument, isn’t it?
Which will really put this shit to the test. Let's see the mob try and convince those stakeholders to change Yale's name. I would argue that Yale's name is, by a margin, its most valuable asset ... even more than its multi-billion dollar endowment. When that happens, you'll know the country has jumped the shark.
MARYLAND (AP) — The recent national debate over racism has renewed calls for the NFL’s Washington Redskins to change their name, with Native American advocates believing the climate is right for action despite no evidence owner Dan Snyder is considering it.
It could take pressure from the other 31 owners and the league office itself to force Snyder’s hand. A Redskins spokesman said the team had no comment, while the NFL did not immediately respond to questions about the future of the name.
“(It) might be easier if the NFL as an institution or a corporation mandates the change because then it takes the pressure off of the Washington team themselves and Dan Snyder,” University of California, Berkeley, assistant professor of psychology Arianne Eason said Wednesday.
Yale is literally named after a man who made his money in the early slave trade. Tear the entire campus down? It’s one big racist monument, isn’t it?
Which will really put this shit to the test. Let's see the mob try and convince those stakeholders to change Yale's name. I would argue that Yale's name is, by a margin, its most valuable asset ... even more than its multi-billion dollar endowment. When that happens, you'll know the country has jumped the shark.
I’m not even talking about the name. The entire university is the result of a slave trader making money in human trafficking and founding a college. If it were called Hitler University would it even exist? Shut it all down if we’re going to all be outraged about the past.
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Yale is literally named after a man who made his money in the early slave trade. Tear the entire campus down? It’s one big racist monument, isn’t it?
Which will really put this shit to the test. Let's see the mob try and convince those stakeholders to change Yale's name. I would argue that Yale's name is, by a margin, its most valuable asset ... even more than its multi-billion dollar endowment. When that happens, you'll know the country has jumped the shark.
What Made the Red Man Red?
If I hear anyone say zippity do da ever again I’m going to smash their FACE in!
I’m not even talking about the name. The entire university is the result of a slave trader making money in human trafficking and founding a college. If it were called Hitler University would it even exist? Shut it all down if we’re going to all be outraged about the past.