Washington Redskins Continue Racial Justice Expedition with Ring of Fame Removal

If Kevin Durant calling Kendrick Perkins a “sellout” is 1A for most ironic story of the month, then the Washington Redskins tackling racial justice has to be 1B.

A week after removing a statue of founding owner George Preston Marshall, the Redskins are removing his name from the Ring of Fame at Fedex Field. They will also be renaming the George Preston Marshall field level at FedEx Field to the Bobby Mitchell field level, the team’s first black player who Marshall signed in 1962.

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Marshall was the last NFL owner to integrate his team after signing Mitchell in 1962 and was very against the integration of the NFL which started in 1946. Marshall only did so after being threatened by Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall that the team would no longer be able to play at RFK stadium.

It took until just last Saturday for the Redskins to announce that they would be retiring the number of Bobby Mitchell, a Hall of Famer and four-time Pro Bowler, who died in April. While many will be quick to criticize that the decision to retire his number came posthumously, it should be noted that Mitchell is only the second Redskins player to have his number retired after Sammy Baugh.

Of course, this is a team still named after a blatant racial slur. Let’s wait for Snyder and company to change that before we award them a Nobel Peace Prize.

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