The Associated Press | May 28, 2013
While the Washington Redskins have been presured in the past to change their name, they now have a new critic - the United States Congress. In a letter sent to team owner, Dan Snyder, 10 members of Congress write:
“Native Americans throughout the country consider the ‘R-word’ a racial, derogatory slur akin to the ‘N-word’ among African Americans or the ‘W-word’ among Latinos.”
To read the entire article click here: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/football/members-of-us-congress-urge-redskins-to-change-nickname/article12200172/
Our very own Arthur Caplan wrote a commentary on this very issue earlier this month for Forbes.com. You can read that article here: http://www.forbes.com/sites/arthurcaplan/2013/05/03/why-the-redskins-moniker-is-just-wrong/
