Dear Editor:
The North Shore News is not an international newspaper. It is also not a city newspaper. It is a good suburban journal.
I therefore find it more than a trifle presumptuous for your editorial (May 23) to tell the most important sports team in the capital of the most powerful country in the world that the name of their team — the Redskins — belongs in the dust bin!
I am sure that the people of that country are better placed to decide whether the name is offensive or whether it is appropriate or indeed much loved by the people concerned.
Your brave editor goes even further and really puts her foot in it when she suggests that the Eskimos and the Blackhawks and the Chiefs and even the Braves should change their teams' names.
I actually think these names might have been chosen because the people concerned admired the characteristics they stood for.I doubt the Eskimos are offended that a team is named after them.
Certainly no Danes would be offended by a team called "Vikings." And I doubt any man would not admire and respect a Brave.
I am afraid the only problem is the wacky political "correctness" so eloquently displayed in your editorial.
Elvin Jensen
West Vancouver
