I do not think the Washington Redskins should have to change their name. There have been way more disputes than there honestly needs to be for a team name and logo. There shouldn’t be this many people fighting over it this late into the teams life cycle. The team has gone almost 100 years without any problems. The team was founded in 1937 and no one seemed to have any problems then. Even before the “Washington Redskins” they were named the “Boston Redskins” and still not one person had a problem with it. If someone really had a problem with it they should of spoke up earlier and not let their problem escalate into something more than it really needed to be. This is why I think that we should not have to change the name.
They should not have to change their name because it was not seen as a big problem until someone had to look into it more and complain about it. If someone really had a problem with it, they shouldn’t let the team keep the name for almost 100 years and then finally start to complain about it. All football teams have some kind of tradition and some kind of name that they want to go by that would most likely represent their state. When they made the team it wasn’t meant to be a racial slur in any way, but it was only as something that would represent them and they knew it would be a good way to represent them.
This same issue happened here in Plymouth to the football team. We used to have a song that we played after every touchdown. The song Rocky Top was a huge part of our school tradition and shouldn’t have the right to revoke privileges to the song. There was no problem with the song for YEARS until one person had to go and ruin it for everyone. They just had to look up the lyrics and then one other parent had to go and complain about the lyrics of the song to the school board even though the lyric was never played when we played it. It was just some people trying to start up a huge commotion that should never really be...