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Originally Posted by vintagewhitesox
As I'm not a native american, whether I am offended or not is irrelevant.
If a native american tells me the image is offensive to them, well, I would have to believe that person.
I look at it this way, if there was a team called the New York Jewboys, and the logo was a hooked nosed caricature, I'd probably be offended.
I do find it somewhat humerous that the middle aged white men on THIS board are so bent out of shape about a sports logo.
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Possible simple solution: lighten his skin. I would think that the Redskins would be more offensive than the Indians.
Back in the 1990's my local minor league team, a Cleveland affiliate, changed it's name from Indians to Red Stixx (local Indians would use sticks painted red to communicate between villages) - it was silly, but it worked for that team...for a while, then they changed it to Mudcats (Chattahoochee River catfish)- nobody was ever offended with that one.
Wouldn't that make things okay for everyone?