Agreed. But that's separate from whether or not Redskins should change. Again, how is Washington Redskins any better than Washington Yellows or Washington Darkies? The dumb thing is that they are changing it away from native representation altogether.
A Hispanic friend of mine (who leans a little left but is fairly moderate) put it this way:
The Washington logo was designed by a member of the Blackfoot tribe to represent a Blackfoot, and I read his son thinks removing the logo takes away from Native Americans. Trying to figure out what I would think I were Native American: If there was a team called, say the San Antonio Wetbacks with a logo that showed an Aztec, vaquero, or revolucionario in a positive way I'd be all about changing the name but cool keeping the iconography. Changing the logo would feel to me like they were taking something away. Rather than changing the name to for example San Antonio Bulldogs I would hope they kept the logo and changed the name to maybe San Antonio Vaqueros.
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