"I'm proud to be a Native American. I'm proud to be an American. I'm proud to be a Washington Redskin."
The obligation to use 'Redskins'
Journalist Mike Sielski outlines how refusing to use the Redskins name completely compromises the journalistic integrity of that news source: "You're revealing immediately that, in what's supposed to be your role as a reliable narrator, you are actually unreliable. You're telling your readers: We have a principle or an agenda that goes beyond informing you. In fact, we'll withhold information from you if we believe it runs counter to that agenda."