Richard Whitman, a member of the Yuchi tribe, remembers being teased as a child - repeatedly being called a "redskin."
"You live with it, you know?" Whitman said of the teasing. "It was part of our little survival technique, if you will."
So he is glad to see pressure put on the Washington Redskins to change their name.
He says it represents the scalps that were collected by bounty hunters who made a living killing Native Americans.
"Medical health shows the impact of this kind of imaging for young native people," Whitman said.
I guess with an over-active imagination you can construe a name to represent anything you like.
I think for me, “redskin” will now represent the genocide of Jews. Why not? Everyone else keeps attaching their own image to the term.