Mike Huckabee calls former name of Washington football team a “tribute” to Native Americans

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From the July 13, 2020, edition of Fox News' Outnumbered

MIKE HUCKABEE (FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR): The whole point of this, it just becomes absurd. Everybody's trying to be politically correct and not offend anybody. It's a proud tradition. I think that it was really a tribute to the Native Americans to give them that name and the strong, proud sense they had. And for [team owner] Dan Snyder, seven years ago, to say, ‘oh, we'll never change it,' and now to sell out and fold because of the pressure, it's disappointing.

By contrast:

BREAKING: Washington's NFL team announces official retirement of its racist name and logo, a fight Native activists have been leading for decades. pic.twitter.com/KoB3aNvT7L

— Indian Country Today (@IndianCountry) July 13, 2020

Also, this is not the first time that Huckabee had a horrible take on indigenous peoples.