racism in its entirety. Allowing the @NFL to continue to use the @redskins name is destructive to Native communities and cannot be tolerated any longer.
Change the name.’The 47-year-old actress also shared a link to a petition which called out the ‘Redskins’ for being a ‘derogatory name’.It read: ‘It is past time that the Washington Football Team retired its derogatory name—Redskins—to history with the other racist and dehumanizing terms of our past.’Before it demanded that advertisers, banks, sports broadcasters, and social media outlets refuse to allow the team to use their services or feature their businesses unless the name changes.
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