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Originally Posted by glatt

When the rest of the country thinks about Washington DC, just about the last image to pop into their heads is that of the Native American Indian. It's a really stupid team name for that reason alone. ... This area has virtually nothing to do with Indians when compared to other US cities.

I'm sure no one has ever accused you of being a man of vision, of getting the big picture of the relationship of past to present to future. Teams weren't always named after city associated images, the Redskins didn't originate in Washington, DC, and there's a demonstrable chain of events linking the team name to honorable if not noble origins.

Tamanend or Tammany or Tammamend, the "affable",[1] (c. 1625–c. 1701) was a chief of one of the clans that made up the Lenni-Lenape nation in the Delaware Valley at the time Philadelphia was established. Tamanend is best known as a lover of peace and friendship who played a prominent role in the establishment of peaceful relations among the Native American tribes and the English settlers who established Pennsylvania, led by William Penn.

UNDER THE NAME "TAMMANY", he was a popular figure in America, especially in Philadelphia. Referred to as "Patron Saint of America", he became an emblem of peace and amity. A Tammany society is an annual Tammany festival that was founded in Philadelphia. Tammany societies elsewhere were established, using his name to stand for the peaceful politics of negotiation.

Tammany Hall, also known as the Society of St. Tammany, the Sons of St. Tammany[/url], or the Columbian Order, was a New York City political organization founded in 1786 and incorporated on May 12, 1789, as the Tammany Society. It was the Democratic Party political machine that played a major role in controlling New York City and New York State politics and helping immigrants, ...

The Tammany Society was named for Tamanend, a Native American leader of the Lenape, and emerged as the center for Democratic-Republican Party politics in the city in the early 19th century. The "Hall" serving as the Society's headquarters was built in 1868 on East 14th Street, marking an era when Tammany Hall became the city affiliate of the Democratic Party, controlling most of the New York City elections afterwards. ...

The Atlanta Braves, a current Major League Baseball franchise, originated in Boston ... The Cincinnati Red Stockings, established in 1869 as the first openly all-professional baseball team, voted to dissolve after the 1870 season. Player-manager Harry Wright then went to Boston, Massachusetts at the invitation of Boston Red Stockings founder Ivers Whitney Adams, with brother George and two other Cincinnati players, to form the nucleus of the Boston Red Stockings, ... The original Boston Red Stockings team and its successors can lay claim to being the oldest continuously playing team in American professional sports.[1] ... Boston came to be called the Beaneaters in 1883, WHILE RETAINING RED AS THEIR TEAM COLOR. ...

Nickname changes to the Doves in 1907 and the Rustlers in 1911 did nothing to change the National League club's luck. The team became the Braves for the first time in 1912. THEIR OWNER, JAMES GAFFNEY, WAS A MEMBER OF NEW YORK CITY'S POLITICAL MACHINE, TAMMANY HALL, WHICH USED AN INDIAN CHIEF AS THEIR SYMBOL. ...

The Washington Redskins are a professional American football team located in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area. ... THE TEAM ORIGINATED AS THE BOSTON BRAVES, based in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1932, under the ownership of George Preston Marshall. At the time the team played in Braves Field, home of the Boston Braves baseball team. THE FOLLOWING YEAR THE CLUB MOVED TO FENWAY PARK, HOME OF THE BOSTON RED SOCKS, WHEREUPON THE OWNERS CHANGED THE TEAM'S NAME TO THE BOSTON REDSKINS. THE REDSKINS RELOCATED TO WASHINGTON, D.C. IN 1937. ...

When you advocate not using the name Redskins, you're advocating dropping the rich heritage of a Native American of a previous generation, one once called the Patron Saint of America, to satiate the whining of the current generation sponging off that heritage with attention whoring political correctness abuses in a futile grasp at control: Native American Heritage Cannibalism.