Toggle Menu

The Washington Redhawks Culture Jam

Jacqueline Keeler joins the show to talk native mascotry.

Dave Zirin

December 19, 2017

Helmets for Washington’s football team.(Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP Photo)

On this episode of the podcast, we take a look at a culture jam that occurred earlier this week, targeting the Washington football team and its racist team mascot. Jacqueline Keeler joins the show again to talk about how this culture jam came into being as well as the larger issue of using indigenous people as mascots, and the impact of living near uranium mines on the health of native communities.

We also have a Choice Words segment that examines the politics of Charles Barkley in the wake of the recent Alabama senatorial election. We also have a Just Stand Up award for the heads of the NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB player associations and a Just Sit Down award to Rob Manfred, commissioner of Major League Baseball. All that and more!

Jacqueline Keeler is the founder of Eradicating Offensive Native Mascotry & Creator of #NotYourMascot. You can follow her on Twitter and here’s a recent piece.

Here’s Dave Zirin’s piece on Charles Barkley’s politics: Charles Barkley’s Politics Demand Criticism.

Subscribe on iTunes, SoundCloud or wherever you get your podcasts for new episodes each Tuesday.

Dave ZirinTwitterDave Zirin is the sports editor at The Nation. He is the author of 11 books on the politics of sports. He is also the coproducer and writer of the new documentary Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL.


Latest from the nation