Church group latest to boycott Redskins over name
Source: USA Today
The United Church of Christ (UCC) for the mid-Atlantic region passed a resolution Saturday asking its 40,000 members not to buy game tickets or wear any souvenir gear of the Washington NFL club until it changes its embattled team name.
The resolution, which also calls on the team to change its name and refrain from using American Indian imagery, passed unanimously at the UCC's Central Atlantic Conference in Dover, Del.
"I hope this debate will continue to draw attention to an unhealed wound in our cultural fabric," the Rev. John Deckenback, conference minister, said in a statement. "Changing the name of the Washington NFL team will not solve the problems of our country's many trails of broken promises and discriminatory isolation of our Native American communities. However, a change in the nation's capital can send a strong message."
Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/redskins/2014/06/14/church-of-christ-boycott-washington-redskins-name/10524269/
catbyte
(34,437 posts)It is an insult to us, and an even bigger slap in the face that it's our nation's capitol.
olddad56
(5,732 posts)I believe this will happen by the 2016 season.
packman
(16,296 posts)I lived for 29 years in the Washington, D.C. area and counted myself as one of their more rabid fans, especially in the Sonny Jurgenson, Billy Kilmer, Joe Gibbs era. For every 1 person boycotting their games you will find 100 more than willing to step in and take their season tickets. I had a friend that waited 11 years for his season tickets, got them and was transferred to Miami that same week. Did he give them up? Hell, no. He and his wife flew up to D.C. for every home game.
Don't get me wrong, with you 100%, just that IMHO no boycott is ever going to work. The change will have to be from other sources.
Grassy Knoll
(10,118 posts)Laugh Out Fucking Loud..