{"id":2017821,"date":"2023-08-31T08:39:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T12:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/washington-commanders-president-redskins-wont-be-coming-back\/"},"modified":"2023-08-31T08:40:06","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T12:40:06","slug":"washington-commanders-president-redskins-wont-be-coming-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/washington-commanders-president-redskins-wont-be-coming-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Commanders President confirms that the team will not be reverting back to the name &#8220;Redskins.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwashington-commanders-president-redskins-wont-be-coming-back%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2017821&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Sorry, Redskins fans. The Washington Commanders\u2019 team president just put the kibosh on any effort to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/speaker-pelosis-new-house-rules-package-silences-the-voice-of-republican-minority\/\" title=\"Speaker Pelosi\u2019s new House rules package silences the voice of Republican minority\">bring back<\/a> the old \u200bmoniker for Washington, D.C.\u2019s NFL team.<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cIt is not \u200bbeing \u2062considered. Period,\u201d team president Jason\u2063 Wright <a href=\"https:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/articles\/10087795-commanders-jason-wright-reverting-to-old-team-name-not-being-considered-period\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/washington-commanders-president-redskins-wont-be-coming-back\/\" title=\"Washington Commanders President confirms that the team will not be reverting back to the name \"Redskins.\"\">local radio\u2064 station<\/a>\u200c on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The comment comes after \u200dthe nonprofit Native American Guardians Association (NAGA) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.change.org\/p\/change-the-washington-commanders-back-to-the-washington-redskins-3db47898-920b-4ba3-b608-9ffe3b4a0adf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recently started<\/a> a petition to change the name back to the Redskins. In \u200b2020, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-did-patrick-mahomes-leave-training-camp-over-the-kansas-city-chiefs-name\/\" title=\"FACT CHECK: Did Patrick Mahomes Leave Training Camp Over The Kansas City Chiefs\u2019 Name?\">team changed<\/a> its name after using the \u201cRedskins\u201d label for 90\u200c years. So \u200dfar, the group has \u2064amassed nearly 130,000 signatures in a little \u2062over two \u200dmonths.<\/p>\n<p>NAGA also sent the\u200c team <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/08\/14\/native-americans-calls-for-commanders-name-change-to-redskins\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a letter<\/a> that addressed what the group\u2064 called the \u200c\u201ccancel culture\u201d against the \u2062Native \u2063American population and the erasure of \u200bits \u201csteadfast role \u200cin American history, including serving as counselors to the \u2064Founding Fathers \u2064in \u2063the creation of the\u200d U.S. Constitution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>NAGA\u2019s missive spoke about \u200cthe \u200bhistory of the Washington football team and its relationship with the\u200c Native American community dating back \u2063to its 1933 season when they were named the Boston Redskins.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt this moment in history, we are formally requesting that \u2063the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/native-american-group-threatens-washington-commanders-with-boycott-over-name-change\/\" title=\"Native American group threatens boycott of Washington Commanders over name change.\">team revitalize<\/a> \u200bits relationship \u2062with the American Indian community \u2064by (i) changing the name back\u200c to \u2018The Redskins\u2019 which recognizes America\u2019s \u200boriginal inhabitants and (ii) using the team\u2019s historic name\u2063 and legacy to encourage Americans to learn about, \u200bnot cancel, the\u2062 history of \u200dAmerica\u2019s tribes and our role in the founding \u200cof this Great Nation,\u201d\u2063 the letter read.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1693504018745000&#038;usg=AOvVaw1RMMjCvCBOBYdpkw5O_njE\">CLICK HERE TO\u2064 GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>The group has also defended itself against accusations that it\u2063 isn\u2019t a real\u200b group.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople want to call \u2064us fake \u2062and they\u2019ve done \u2063that before,\u201d NAGA co-founder and president Eunice Davidson\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\/native-americans-leading-redskins-petition-outraged-washington-commanders-rep-called-fake-group\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> Fox News.\u2063 \u201cThey never tell\u200b our story and that\u2019s their goal. To wipe out \u2063Native history. It\u2019s discrimination when\u2064 you\u2063 go after one culture like this.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Katie Jerkovich contributed to this report.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry, Redskins fans. The Washington Commanders&#8217; team president, Jason Wright, firmly rejected any possibility of reviving the old name for the NFL team. In a recent interview, he stated, &#8220;It is not being considered. Period.&#8221; This response follows the Native American Guardians Association&#8217;s recent efforts to advocate for a name change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":326,"featured_media":2017822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2017821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2017821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2017822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2017821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2017821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2017821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}