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    The Redskins Change Their Name, But What About Thousands of Other School Mascots?

    2020-07-16

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    While it’s a promising start, changing the Washington Redskins is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the obsession with co-opting Native American / Indigenous iconography

    Great news! After 87 years of using a racist name, the football team formerly known as the Washington Redskins caved to public and sponsor pressures to change their name. The close to 2,000 high schools and colleges that to this day use Native American / Indigenous people and symbols as their “mascots” won’t be so easy.

    The name has always been racist, and as pointed out in our Lady AntiBLM piece, you either know and don’t care, or don’t care to know. But the change this time was made for a different reason entirely.

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