Antonius
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As being Native American, I still with it was the Redskins.
To each their own
But I remember when I realized the name was bullshit.
I was a kid in elementary school, and some of my classmates were talking smack to each other. Like boys do. And one kid called a native kid a “redskin”. And the teacher heard that, and said you can’t call someone that, because it was a racial insult. To which the kid replied, “but that’s the name of an NFL team”. And our teacher struggled, and stuttered to explain why it was okay for an NFL team to call itself that, but not okay for a person to call someone else by the name. From that moment at 10 years old, figured out it was a dumb name.