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<html><head></head><body>Washington Redskins, meet Negro Mountain.
One is the name of our hometown football team; the other a mountain ridge that stretches from Western Maryland into Pennsylvania. One name is patently offensive to a large majority of Native Americans; the other name overwhelmingly rejected by African Americans.
 <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/two-offensive-names-that-need-to-be-changed/2013/01/29/fa3c93d8-6a54-11e2-af53-7b2b2a7510a8_story.html?wprss=rss_local">Read full article &gt;&gt;</a> <a target="blank" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/two-offensive-names-that-need-to-be-changed/2013/01/29/fa3c93d8-6a54-11e2-af53-7b2b2a7510a8_story.html?wprss=rss_local">read more</a>
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Washington Redskins, meet Negro Mountain.

One is the name of our hometown football team; the other a mountain ridge that stretches from Western Maryland into Pennsylvania. One name is patently offensive to a large majority of Native Americans; the other name overwhelmingly rejected by African Americans.

<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/two-offensive-names-that-need-to-be-changed/2013/01/29/fa3c93d8-6a54-11e2-af53-7b2b2a7510a8_story.html?wprss=rss_local">Read full article &gt;&gt;</a> <a target="blank" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/two-offensive-names-that-need-to-be-changed/2013/01/29/fa3c93d8-6a54-11e2-af53-7b2b2a7510a8_story.html?wprss=rss_local">read more</a>

Washington Redskins and Negro Mountain: Two offensive names that need to be changed