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slats, on 19 Jun 2014 - 09:11 AM, said:snapback.png

So you admit that Italians aren't white people... ?

 

I'm half Sicilian.  Flava Flav and I are practically cousins.

Same here homey. 

Slats is just jealous cause we got so much more than the avg white dude to make the women happy.

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Some notes about the original owner of the Redskins, George Preston Marshall, who named the team:

 

 

* Born in West Virginia in 1896 (uh-oh).

 

* Originally owned a basketball team called the Washington Palace Five Laundrymen.

 

* Bought the Boston Braves football team in 1932, moved team to Washington and named them the Redskins.

 

* According to professor Charles Ross, for 24 years Marshall was identified as the "leading racist in the NFL".

 

* The NFL color barrier was broken in 1946.  The Redskins did not sign a black player until 1962.

 

* Washington Post columnist Shirley Povich once mocked Marshall, writing after a game against the Browns that Jim Brown "integrated the end zone", making the score "separate but unequal".

 

* In 1962 Interior Secretary Stewart Udall and Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy issued an ultimatum - unless Marshall signed a black player, the government would revoke the Redskins' 30-year lease on their new stadium.

 

* The Redskins finally drafted a black player, Ernie Davis of Syracuse, but he demanded a trade, saying "I won't play for that S.O.B.".  He got his wish and was traded to Cleveland for Bobby Mitchell.  Mitchell thus became the first black player to wear a Redskins uniform in the 1962 season.

 

Biased against the Koreans too.

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