The National Football League’s Washington team will retire its ‘Redskins’ name and logo following mounting pressure from investors and decades of criticism they are racist and offensive to Native Americans.
FedEx, Nike and PepsiCo were among the companies in recent weeks to call for the franchise's name to be changed. Retail giants Amazon, Target and Walmart also removed Redskins merchandise from their websites last week in protest.
Native American advocates have long criticised the name they call a"dictionary-defined racial slur", and just last week, more than a dozen leaders and organisations wrote to the NFL Commissioner demanding an end to it.
"Future generations of Native youth will no longer be subjected to this offensive and harmful slur every Sunday during football season."closes a painful chapter of denigration and disrespect toward Native Americans and other
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