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THE WASHINGTON REDSKINS have a new coach--who required a bribe of $25 million to take on that thankless job--but the organization remains mired in an old controversy: the team name. As is well known, Indian activists consider "Redskins" to be demeaning. The question is: Should the Skins shed their traditional moniker for something acceptable to every living being--if, indeed, such a thing is possible?
First off, it should be said that the Indians are not alone in their complaints. Just before Steve Spurrier signed on as the new coach, the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments demanded the name be dropped. It is easy to dismiss the Council of Governments, of course. As a Washington Post columnist put it, the council is known as "the meetingest people around"--which is to say the council is composed of chattering busybodies. Indeed, the council reportedly spent three times as long discussing the Redskins issue as it did terrorism preparedness on the day of the vote. Yet the council summed up the complaint pretty well. Carol Schwartz, the Republican chairman of the Metropolitan Council and author of the anti-Redskins resolution, says, "This degrading, dehumanizing, and racially derogatory name has gone on for too long--far too long." Takoma Park...
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