FCC Rejects Bid To Ban Use Of Redskins On Television and Radio

Oct 12, 2014; Glendale, AZ, USA; Detailed view of the Washington Redskins logo on a helmet during the game against the Arizona Cardinals at University of Phoenix Stadium. The Cardinals defeated the Redskins 30-20. Mandatory Credit: Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports

The Washington Redskins have been chastised for their racist name, but the FCC is not going to do anything about it.

Back in September, George Washington University law professor John Banzhaf III submitted a bid to the FCC to get the use of the name ‘Redskins’ banned from use over American airwaves controlled by the FCC. The big was submitted at a time when the country was up in arms about the use of the name, which just about everyone besides Daniel Snyder and his minions have deemed derogatory and bigoted.

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A few months later, now that the hype has all calmed down and people have gone back to not caring about the Redskins, the FCC has quietly rejected the ban on the use of the name.

The bid to ban the use of the name Redskins on airways was officially rejected by the FCC on Thursday.

It hoes to show that if ou wait things out long enough, people will just stop caring. There isn’t the type of public outrage over this latest dismissal of the name that there was back in September, which is unfortunate for the cause.

Then again, there were pushes to get the name changed back in the late 1990s and yet here we sit over a decade later and we’re still have the same conversation while spinning out wheels that we were so many years ago.

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