{"id":108,"date":"2016-02-09T16:33:22","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T21:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemsocialstudies\/?p=108"},"modified":"2022-01-18T23:28:03","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T04:28:03","slug":"why-redskins-is-problematic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemsocialstudies\/2016\/02\/09\/why-redskins-is-problematic\/","title":{"rendered":"Why &#8220;Redskins&#8221; is Problematic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since we talked a bit today about Native Americans, I thought this was appropriate. Here&#8217;s what <a href=\"http:\/\/mic.com\/articles\/80835\/the-powerful-super-bowl-ad-that-washington-redskins-owner-dan-snyder-needs-to-see#.yllJsQqXe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Matt Essert at Mic<\/a> wrote about this 2014 Super Bowl commercial.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For years, America has been debating the use of the term &#8220;Redskin&#8221; by Washington&#8217;s NFL team, the Washington Redskins. Though the NFL says they&#8217;re listening, nothing has been done. But with this ad, the NCAI has put a human face on the story and shows exactly why the term &#8220;Redskin&#8221; is so problematic, in compressing an entire people&#8217;s rich and varied identity into one stereotype.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/video\/c\/embed\/25f06514-8a92-11e3-833c-33098f9e5267\" width=\"420\" height=\"255\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since we talked a bit today about Native Americans, I thought this was appropriate. Here&#8217;s what Matt Essert at Mic wrote about this 2014 Super Bowl commercial. &#8220;For years, America has been debating the use of the term &#8220;Redskin&#8221; by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemsocialstudies\/2016\/02\/09\/why-redskins-is-problematic\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":270,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[208125],"tags":[27147],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-things-to-think-about","tag-native-americans"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemsocialstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemsocialstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemsocialstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemsocialstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/270"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemsocialstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemsocialstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemsocialstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions\/114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemsocialstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemsocialstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemsocialstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}