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https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/new-poll-finds-9-in-10-native-americans-aren-t-offended-by-redskins-name/article_6fb85520-c44b-5ab8-b6a8-9fda63fcaf48.html

Nine in 10 American Indians say they are not offended by the Washington Redskins name, according to a new Washington Post poll that shows how few ordinary Natives have been persuaded by a national movement to change the football team’s moniker.

The survey of 504 people across every state and the District of Columbia reveals that the minds of Native Americans have remained unchanged since a 2004 poll by the Annenberg Public Policy Center found the exact same result. Responses to The Post’s questions about the issue were broadly consistent regardless of age, income, education, political party or proximity to reservations.

But for more than a decade, no one has measured what the country’s 5.4 million Native Americans think about the controversy. Their responses to The Post poll were unambiguous: Few objected to the name, and some voiced admiration.

“I’m proud of being Native American and of the Redskins,” said Barbara Bruce, a Chippewa teacher who has lived on a North Dakota reservation most of her life. “I’m not ashamed of that at all. I like that name.”

Even as the name-change movement gained momentum among influential people, The Post’s survey and more than two dozen subsequent interviews make clear that the effort failed to have anywhere near the same impact on Natives.

Across every demographic group, the vast majority of Native Americans say the team’s name does not offend them, including 80 percent who identify as politically liberal, 85 percent of college graduates, 90 percent of those enrolled in a tribe, 90 percent of nonfootball fans and 91 percent of those between the ages of 18 and 39.

Even 9 in 10 of those who have heard a great deal about the controversy say they are not bothered by the name.

What makes those attitudes more striking: The general public appears to object more strongly to the name than Natives do.

In a 2014 national ESPN poll, 23 percent of those reached called for “Redskins” to be retired because of its offensiveness to Native Americans — more than double the 9 percent of actual Native Americans who now say they are offended by it.

This seems similar to current BLM crap. It is largely not black people and minorities, it is well-educated liberal white idiots who stir the shit because they feel guilty for being rich.