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It took George Floyd's murder to make this happen.

— Paul Chott-Smith

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It took a national uprising led by African-Americans in all 50 states. I think the pandemic played a role in which some things got more attention because people are at home. and then it took something like $600 billion of corporate and investment money to say, well, time's up. We don't want to support this anymore.

— Paul Chott-Smith

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I think mainly what cost them was just not having won a playoff game since 2005. I mean, that's ultimately the major thing.

— Paul Chott-Smith

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The name of our team is the name of our team and it represents honor, it represents pride, it represents respect. And in no way is this derogatory or racist.

— Unknown

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These are names chosen mostly by, you know, really rich white guys. and in the 1930s or 40s, there wasn't a great deal of thought or what might happen or what did Native people think.

— Paul Chott-Smith

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The Redskins name is not a name of the mascot. It is a racist derogatory term that I personally take offense to and so to my children.

— Unknown

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For a while, many sports writers around the country wouldn't use the name. This was like 2014. And then it sort of went away as being a hot button issue

— Sean Ramas-Furham

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Redskins owner Dan Snyder has held firm under some protest that he will not change the nickname of his team. Snyder, who bought the franchise in 1999, claiming it honors Native American heritage, even telling USA Today in 2013, quote, We'll never change the name. It's that simple. Never. You can use caps.

— Sean Ramas-Furham

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Nothing was more immovable in the mascot discussion than the Washington franchise.

— Sean Ramas-Furham

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Change the name. Bit of a Hail Mary, but it appears to have worked.

— Unknown

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He pioneered the halftime show, the fight song, the forward pass, and for being a raging bigot.

— Sean Ramas-Furham

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It looks kind of like a dying, rusty, convertible spaceship.

— Sean Ramas-Furham

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The District of Columbia's football team is abandoning the name it adopted almost a century ago. Paul Chaat Smith, a curator at the National Museum of the American Indian, hopes the country is at long last ready to reckon with its past. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
00:19:17•July 14, 2020

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