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