The Navajo Code Talkers beg to differ.

Via WaPo:

A coalition of the nation’s leading civil rights organizations took on a new issue Thursday: the name of the Washington Redskins.

The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, a coalition of organizations including the NAACP, the ACLU and the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, approved a resolution at its annual meeting in the District that called on the team to change its name and “refrain from the use of any other images, mascots, or behaviors that are or could be deemed harmful or demeaning to Native American cultures or peoples.”

Of the 85 organizations at the gathering, not one representative offered opposition. The resolution was approved to a round of applause.

“What affects one of us, affects all of us,” said Hilary O. Shelton, director of the NAACP’s Washington Bureau.

He said African Americans are all too familiar with seeing themselves stereotyped and that the organization plans to do what it can to support the Native American groups that have taken the lead on the name-change push.

“Athletics are supposed to demonstrate the best of who we are,” Shelton said. Instead, the team’s continued use of a word that Native Americans have denounced as offensive treats them as “less than human,” he said. “We all hope they change it very soon. There is really no excuse for not doing so.”