{"id":356,"date":"2020-07-06T16:29:30","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T16:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/?p=356"},"modified":"2020-07-06T16:32:42","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T16:32:42","slug":"redskins-is-not-offensive-according-to-gary-clark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2020\/07\/06\/redskins-is-not-offensive-according-to-gary-clark\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Redskins&#8221; is not offensive, according to Gary Clark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/.amp-redskins\/nfl\/redskins\/news\/redskins-legend-gary-clark-says-name-not-derogatory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Redskins Legend Gary Clark Says Name Not Offensive.<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The reason I initially visited the Native American reservation was because people were saying that saying the word &#8216;Redskins&#8217; was like saying the [N-Word) to a black person,&#8221; Clark told Donaldson. &#8230;  <\/p>\n<p>Clark continued to NBC Sports Washington: \u201cWhat I found was Native Americans wearing Redskins gear and saying that they were proud to be a Redskin fan and the 5% that weren\u2019t Redskins fans were Cowboys fans and that\u2019s why they didn\u2019t like the name.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My impression has been that most of the people who are offended by &#8220;Redskins&#8221; are not Native Americans. Most of them are woke white people bring offended <i>on behalf of<\/i> Native Americans. <\/p>\n<p>But &#8230; the woke mentality is immune to such things, and it&#8217;s inevitable that the team will have to change their name. I hope they keep some tie to Native Americans. If they become &#8220;the generals&#8221; or something like that, I will have no feeling of continuity at all with the old team. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Redskins Legend Gary Clark Says Name Not Offensive. &#8220;The reason I initially visited the Native American reservation was because people were saying that saying the word &#8216;Redskins&#8217; was like saying the [N-Word) to a black person,&#8221; Clark told Donaldson. &#8230; Clark continued to NBC Sports Washington: \u201cWhat I found was Native Americans wearing Redskins gear &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2020\/07\/06\/redskins-is-not-offensive-according-to-gary-clark\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;Redskins&#8221; is not offensive, according to Gary Clark&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":359,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions\/359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}