The average fan is an idiot.
The average Native American has much larger problems but they are the result of centuries of planned genocide and systematic racism, which are things that allow a racial slur to be casually used as a mascot in the first place. It's not a big problem, but it's representative of those much larger problems.
Oh, and for what it's worth:
New York tribe launching radio ad against Washington Redskins - ESPN
I see that Ward Churchill has joined our group.
Well, you can add me to your blocked list, because I fully support the Redskin's name and usage. That whole "genocide" bit has been disproved solidly, but the likes of Churchill (a proven fraud and plagiarist who lost his professorship over his books about the genocide of American Indians) still haunt our society and universities, pushing their failed policies as fact and poisoning our youth with their PC toxins..
The strawman that the PC crowd uses is typical of leftist propaganda/political actions, however. What they do is to try and fit modern mores onto someone/something from the past and declare that "it" was terrible and we should all feel some sort of guilt about it.
Judging a person or class or whatever outside of it's own environment is disingenuous at best, a distortion of reality. Individuals and even national actions MUST be judged within the mores and philosophies of their time, and NOT by modern mores or philosophies. To do otherwise is more dangerous, and results in the sort of crapweasel tactics as demanding reparations for the descendants of slaves, the castigation of American white males as a "privileged" class who should be shamed with "white guilt" and other such unwarranted ideas.
Besides which, the entire idea of "racism" is inherently flawed, a product of leftist propaganda. There is only one race: Human. Everything else is an artificial construct designed by the left to pit one group against another in a bid to gain power over the resulting factions and defeat them one by one. The only good thing that has come out of the past 50 years of this is that the American citizens are beginning to understand the insidious nature of the Diversity Industry and their Zampolits and rejecting them outright.
Those arguing against the use of the name "Redskins" deserve their comeuppance, and I hope that they and their entire PC/Diversity Industry are relegated to the dustbin of history, a fate more generous than that which they deserve.