The Oneida Indian Nation of upstate New York has tied Riley Cooper’s use of a racial slur into a new campaign against the Washington Redskins’ nickname. The Native American tribe plans to run a 60-second radio ad on Washington stations before the Monday night season opener at FedEx Field against the Philadelphia Eagles. Cooper, the Eagles’ starting wide receiver, was caught on video using a slur against African-Americans in June, took a brief leave of absence and then apologized publicly and individually to his teammates and the organization. The Oneida Nation referenced that incident, and commissioner Roger Goodell’s criticism of Cooper’s slur, in the radio spot, saying that he “did the right thing.’’ In the commercial, Oneida Nation representative Ray Halbritter said Goodell “is absolutely right; this kind of bigotry has no place in America. “The commissioner has the opportunity to stand up to bigotry again; he can denounce the racial slur in the team name of the Washington Redskins,’’ Halbritter says in the ad. “He can and should use the same words he used to describe the Eagles player, because the term ‘Redskins’ is ‘obviously wrong, insensitive and unacceptable.’’’ Goodell used those words in August in an interview about the Cooper incident on ESPN’s “Mike and Mike†morning show. The commissioner, however, said in a letter to a group of U.S. Congress members in June that the team name was "a unifying force that stands for strength, courage, pride and respect.†Source: Sporting News
what a bunch of freaking bullcrap! some people just love beating a dead horse for their own publicity!
