Local Columnist Calls for Name Changes to Washington Redskins, Negro Mountains
Washington Post writer calls names "offensive."
Has the PC-ification of modern society gone too far, or not far enough? In 2009, the Supreme Court decided to let stand a federal appeals court decision that native Americans had "waited too long to bring their challenge to the Redskins trademark and thus forfeited any right to sue," as reported in the Christian Science Monitor. Now, Washington Post columnist Courtland Milloy has linked the football team's name to the Negro Mountains in Western Maryland/Pennsylvania and is calling for Native American leaders to join forces with African American leaders to take a stand against names "rooted in systemic efforts to dehumanize." Milloy points to the controversy over the mountain range's name as early as 2011, and current efforts by Maryland …
Terry Szall
10:03 pm on Sunday, February 3, 2013
No. Correction: Negro Mountain not mountains is a 30 mile long ridge in the Allegheny's. What's the big deal? Is the "N" word now changed to negro? Ask the organizations titled: The United Negro College Fund or maybe ask the NAACP. Would Colored Person Mountain sound better? I propose that because we have nothing better to do in America, we go around every 20 or 30 years and just strike names … more ›