Daniel Snyder: Washington football team; $1 billion; Potomac, Md.

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Another day, another organization comes out against the Washington football team’s racist name.

This time, the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights has voted unanimously to pass a resolution urging Dan Snyder to change the team’s name, which many find offensive. According to the coalition’s resolution, the team’s name, a dictionary-defined racial slur, “cannot in any reasonable way be viewed as honoring the culture or historical legacy of any particular Native American tribe or individual.” The organization is asking that the team change its name and to stop using a mascot that could be considered offensive or demeaning to the Native American culture.

Furthermore, the resolution also urges government officials to avoid using the name and disassociate themselves from the team by ending “preferential tax, zoning, or other policy treatment that could be viewed as supporting the franchise.”

In a statement, Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights president and CEO Wade Henderson said that “this is not someone else’s problem, this is everyone’s problem. The name [teaches] young people to celebrate the denigration of people for being who they are. That has a damaging psychic impact on individuals, as well as on the entire nation. Changing the name is the right thing do, regardless of how comfortable fans have become with it.” Henderson also said that “when Mr. Snyder does decide to put the slur away, I think he’ll discover a new market of consumers who recognize the dignity of all people and want to honor that with the sports teams they support.”

There you have it.