Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Oneida Complain About Washington Redskins But....

The Oneida Indians are a bunch of racists themselves.
The Oneida Indians have claimed that the Washington Redskins are a bad racist name.
From ESPN:
Representatives of the Oneida Indian Nation on Wednesday asked NFL executives to sanction Washington Redskins owner Daniel Snyder for conduct detrimental to the league for continuing to use a team nickname and mascot that "promote a dictionary-defined racial slur."
In the 90-minute meeting between Oneida Nation representatives and three senior league executives in New York City, the officials also asked for all team owners to meet with Oneida leaders the week of Super Bowl XLVIII. And they asked that Snyder and NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, who was traveling Wednesday and did not attend the meeting, visit Oneida Nation homelands in upstate New York.
But the Oneida representatives left disappointed, saying after the meeting with senior NFL executives Jeff Pash, Adolpho Birch and Paul Hicks that the league "defended the use of a racist name," Oneida spokesman Joel Barkin said.
http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/9903563/oneida-nation-meets-nfl-leadership-seek-washington-redskins-name-mascot-change
And from the Oneida, WI. school web site: You need not be an Oneida member to enroll in our schools, however you do need to show one quarter Native American ancestry.   Funding for our schools come from the Bureau of Indian Education and the Oneida Nation Tribe of Wisconsin.  http://www.oneidanation.org/schools/
So, the Oneida's claim that the Redskin name is discriminatory all the while they are discriminating against non-Indians who may want to go to their school.
Can we say hypocrites and seriously, who cares what the Oneidas think about the Washington Redskins?

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