ESPN sports journalists Rick Reilly has
put out an editorial defending
the Redskins team name now a lot of
people for a long period of time I've
been saying
it's offensive to the Dave in their
community and they should really
consider changing and he's saying
he doesn't think that's necessary and so
to reach that conclusion
he is conducted a non-scientific poll
about one or two people
it says that the Native Americans don't
care so why should anyone else
in by Native Americans he means
apparently his wife
it may be a little bit her family yet so
it turns out his wife's
father is fro a member of the Blackfeet
right
so that the qualifies him to speak for
most Native American said anne's if
found that there are three Native
American high schools and reservations
who actually use the the Basco the
Redskins
okay so they like is a 12 got three high
schools and they haven't changed the
name yet
and you got my father in law well
that'll do it
I'm not sure that does it for example
the representative
ray how birder who is the reps and love
the
only at a nation from saying that right
now almost never say anything right
a Pacific I or at least pronounce things
right
a says no its highly offensive and I
literally speak
for Native American I say know you're
gay
yeah go around saying rescues thats by
using the N word for blacks
with the W word for Latinos and it took
me like three and a half seconds was
like W word
W alright right right now run ok
I mean this is one of the things we're
not a lesser Native American so it's a
little hard for three of us to sit here
and say how offended
they should be using you regret you also
quoted this Annenberg Public Policy
all that said ninety percent to American
Indians are not
offended by go sensory let's just say
for a second that poll
is crew I'm not saying it is but just by
the numbers that he's using for this
article
well then who were we need to be
offended for that you know you mean like
I wouldn't say that it offends me
personally cuz I don't I'm not American
Indian I don't know enough
above the history in in a personal way
so if this one thing that he citing
is legit and they're not offended is a
little crazy that the rest of us would
be offended for this so it's
ironic that you say that that you
represent that because the
the way you have a 10 mound the way you
live in the studio mill
actually look like perhaps if there were
to be a Washington Redskin
yeah I might look like Dave Rubin year
well white
Wow what is look at all you you know
what
I'll talk I actually have a way of going
about it the effect
well so that's actually that's what you
said there is the angle that he took is
that he doesn't understand why a whole
a whole buncha love white people are
coming out and saying trust us we know
what's best will take this away for your
own good and put up barriers to protect
you from
ever being armed again kind of like a
reservation
but then responses to yeah necessary in
in the response to him they're saying
look you're citing up couple love white
journalists but that doesn't mean that
the people who
for the past four decades or so have
been trying to get a change
are necessarily white there's been a lot
of efforts among the Native American
population to do so
and so I don't know that's actually a
great a great way that he sort of
talking this no i i do have a question
for you guys because although I do
occasion watch sports
I've never really all felt all that much
teen like Kyle
loyalty i suppose im if they were to
change the name do you think that that
would do a lot of harm
to the franchise with the fans think
because other teams have changed names
in the past in fact Washington che
teams have changed their name in the
past the see the bats well team used to
the washington boats
than that curiously changes to the
Washington Wizards which might have to
be changed to get
rather go to take it as a reference if
the pagans weekends or or whatever it is
or thirds
or Harry Potter people ur boorda black
with people because like it looks like
he's
burying like a 0 I I don't know if
you've ever heard that congress I've
never read our
yeah every day and then of course the
KKK have the Grand wizards
reso and in the city this the most black
a percentage wise that America so those
securities weird name choice
but alright so look it could hurt the
brand of course occurred right then you
gotta be
build-up a new brand it takes a while
people are you use to infer their whole
lives have rooted for
the Redskins and now if you change it to
something else
they're like what weren't wait a minute
we're not the nationals were not
the Braves or not know where the
Redskins
right here and as for the Eid identity
so it's a
re if you ask me I don't think so easy
question at all I think sucks a hard
question
that we are to drop it
%uh ultimately wanna hear it from you
guys because I'm not even sure yet
a were to come out on the state look as
I said
if this poll that he citing says that
ninety percent of them truly are
offended then it's a little crazy to be
us tab ice be offended for other people
so if that poll is truthful
then I would say that just let the baby
if it's not truthful then and they train
it's truly an offensive term
then that yet all right now I hear you
like taking the easy way out not
something I don't know that's fair
that's rare
but that can decide that is at work the
point Dave's Iron Maiden is a great
sports writer for the nation
and he said or if you think if you truly
believe it's not offensive money you go
to
represent an array how birders home and
say to his grandchildren white goodness
these are some cute little Redskins
I don't think anybody would say that
right like come on you
look here's a I'm a football fan and
even the rest his my whole life psalm
attached to it I don't I
so my gut says don't change it the flip
side is
how could rescue not be afraid yeah you
know it yet I think you just put it in a
personal context that I think that I
mean that's 1000 easily for
that that would that's very obvious
example used yellow
yeah like I can imagine that you call
anybody a Redskin like you
in real life and have them be like oh
hey okay no problem yeah hey Alex Kidd
yes I compared to like you know that she
if so the Braves are so like that like
that's that's using the I cannot reveal
that culture as well but not in such an
explicitly racial sense like
you could have the Detroit gladiators
which went to Detroit
I love skins or something like that but
that just because they are you heard
that name
in a very tired well but if we heard it
for our entire lifetime because as a
football team it wouldn't be weird but I
safe
I feel bad for the group because let's
say they're is a core group of Native
Americans who are offended by this
right what are they supposed to do like
boycott there to a smaller percentage
the population they would have any
impact on it so I feel bad for them
but that poll it is interesting yeah
alright so I before we conclude
Chief Justice only hear from you I
sports story for you okay I don't know
but I don't know what he just told us in
our here came to that is that
was a came across on on there are not he
said just move along dude
you make up your own mind basically yeah
to
guilty isn't one leaning towards not
guilty about whether Notre
I have I have the fight about okay bay
so what you all said we're actually
unanimous
as much this sucks an it's a tough issue
they should change the day okay because
you said you were swung by sirens point
you said look I don't like to get
offended but it does seem offensive
and look you you know it you know to
even do
even people like me were like I don't
want to be to Washington anything else
I know what I like it its center I'm use
to it a bite
it's gotta go it's gotta go at some
point we're 2013 you can call
people Redskins is this such a 2013
conversation that we're really trying to
exactly parse how offended we r
for another group that we're not sure
how effective they are I
a very tiny it as it is that's I mean
we are we are now it developed
civilization america that's what
eventually the media has to do it
suggests its own culture and so we have
to pick through the bones last 100 years
that order
