Protests from the Washington Redskins name are following the team across the country. The 2009 weekend in Denver, protestors woke up close and private while using the team.
As being the Redskins team bus approached Sports Authority Field at Mile High, many of the estimated hundred-plus protestors approached the bus, bearing signs and looking to obtain attention with regards to cause.
"We caused those players for the buses to begin to stop," Glenn Morris of the American Indian Movement of Colorado told the Washington Post. "Those players had to stop and get sucked in there are Native people in Denver, Colorado, who are instead of the things they're doing... So we were saying to them as predominantly Charcoal players, you must understand the history with this team. And you ought to understand your own private role in continuing racism through this team. And we hope that people piqued their conscience but happened to be these phones think a small amount that, and their very own personal role with this national debate."
It's a good strategy, approaching the squad themselves; if Robert Griffin III were to come out simply a reputation change, that could affect the dynamic overnight.
Still, the gamers weren't engaging the protest, at least not on this occasion. "They didn't open the windows and so they were surrounded by police cars because of their lights and sirens," Morris said. "They usually didn't comment. But you can easliy see them with the windows, that they their faces pressed on the windows, watching the fact that was going on. Could that they took notice. And for that reason that was our intention, would have been to end up in the heads in the players as well as the coaching staff, to start out to work with really well to place some pressure for the ownership and also the management team in the Washington eleven to change this racist mascot."
Protestors have said they're going to continue the time and effort at bringing notice with their cause. This protest was bigger than a recent one out of Green Bay, they contended, and the next one in Minneapolis is going to be larger still.
