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President Donald Trump addressed the wave of sports activities groups that underwent name changes in recent times to take away references to Native American heritage.
Trump called the name changes “degrading to the Indian inhabitants.”
“I feel it is degrading to the Indian inhabitants, and it is an important inhabitants, and so they like once they’re known as by numerous names,” Trump stated.
Trump declined to say whether or not he would attempt to get the Washington Commanders to vary their title again to Redskins as a situation for constructing a brand new stadium on federal property. Nonetheless, Trump did say he believes Redskins was higher than the staff’s present title.
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“I can inform you that I spoke to folks of Indian heritage who love that title and love that staff, and I feel it is a a lot superior title to what they’ve proper now and it had heritage behind it, it had one thing particular,” Trump stated.
The Washington Publish launched a ballot in June that discovered that 58% of fans of Commanders followers stated they don’t just like the staff’s new title.
Trump additionally lambasted the choice to rename MLB’s Cleveland Indians to the Guardians after the tip of the 2021 season.
“They modified the title of the Cleveland Indians. Why would you’re taking the title ‘Indians’ off the Cleveland Indians? And now it is known as the Cleveland one thing else,” Trump stated. “So it simply would not make sense to me.
“I feel it truly is demeaning to Indians. However to vary the title of the Cleveland Indians to the Cleveland Guardians, for instance, to the Cleveland Guardians is just not the identical, and I am certain it has an influence on the staff.”
In the meantime, in Lengthy Island, Massapequa Excessive Faculty’s nickname is the Chiefs, however New York law states that faculties should take away logos which are associated to indigenous folks by the tip of the yr.
The Massapequa college district sued the state, however a federal choose dominated towards the district.
Trump beforehand spoke out in help of the varsity’s proper to take care of its title.
“I agree with the folks in Massapequa, Lengthy Island, who’re preventing furiously to maintain the Massapequa Chiefs emblem on their Groups and Faculty,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
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Dec 4, 2016; Glendale, AZ, USA; Detailed view of a Washington Redskins emblem on a helmet towards the Arizona Cardinals at College of Phoenix Stadium. (Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports activities)
“Forcing them to vary the title, in spite of everything of those years, is ridiculous and, if truth be told, an affront to our nice Indian inhabitants. The Faculty Board, and just about everybody within the space, are demanding the title be stored. It has turn into the Faculty’s id and, what may very well be incorrect with utilizing the title, ‘Chief’? I don’t see the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs altering their title anytime quickly! By copy of this TRUTH, I’m asking my extremely succesful Secretary of Training, Linda McMahon, to combat for the folks of Massapequa on this crucial concern. LONG LIVE THE MASSAPEQUA CHIEFS!”
The Commanders and Guardians modified their names from the “Redskins” and “Indians” after public outcry. The Chicago Blackhawks, Atlanta Braves, Kansas Metropolis Chiefs, and Florida State Seminoles have all been pressed, however haven’t modified their nicknames.
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