{"id":19794,"date":"2013-05-28T14:29:33","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T19:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=19794"},"modified":"2013-05-28T14:29:33","modified_gmt":"2013-05-28T19:29:33","slug":"congressional-members-want-redskins-name-changed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=19794","title":{"rendered":"Congressional Members Want &#8220;Redskins&#8221; Name Changed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/redskinshelmet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-18028\" alt=\"redskinshelmet\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/redskinshelmet.jpg\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" \/><\/a>\u00a0WASHINGTON (AP) &#8211; Ten members of Congress are urging the Washington Redskins to change their name because it is offensive to many Native Americans.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The representatives said Tuesday they&#8217;ve sent letters to Redskins owner Dan Snyder, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, Redskins sponsor FedEx and the other 31 NFL franchises.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The letter to Snyder says that &#8220;Native Americans throughout the country consider the &#8216;R-word&#8217; a racial, derogatory slur akin to the &#8216;N-word&#8217; among African Americans or the &#8216;W-word&#8217; among Latinos.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Among the group sending the letters are the leaders of the Congressional Native American Caucus: Tom Cole, R-Okla., and Betty McCollum, D-Minn.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The nickname is the subject of a long-running legal challenge from a group seeking to have the team lose its trademark protection.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Snyder has vowed that he will never change the name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0WASHINGTON (AP) &#8211; Ten members of Congress are urging the Washington Redskins to change their name because it is offensive to many Native Americans. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The representatives said Tuesday they&#8217;ve sent letters to Redskins owner Dan Snyder, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, Redskins sponsor FedEx and the other 31 NFL [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19795,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19794\/revisions\/19795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}