OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Amazon will stop selling Washington Redskins merchandise after the football team said it would undergo a review of its name, which is considered a racial slur.
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The Seattle-based online shopping giant informed sellers Wednesday morning that it would be pulling Redskins merchandise from its online marketplace. Other major retailers, including Walmart, have also stopped selling the team’s merchandise.
The recent national conversation on race has renewed opposition to the name, prompting its sponsors to speak up. The name review, which the team announced last week, could lead to a name change.
On Wednesday, Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson commended Amazon for “taking this swift action to support this long overdue change.” Earlier in the day, Ferguson published a letter to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos pressing the company to drop the team’s merchandise.
I feel so much cleaner now.
Certainly Amazon has too much power, but I do not wish to side with the football team either.
“ according to Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson.”
Pls learn states, cities, districts, areas vying to become states – before publishing, otherwise it becomes hard to take seriously any news posted here. People don’t use barbers whose own hair is a mess or dentists whose teeth are in poor shape or professionals whose materials are full of basic simple mistakes.