By Mac Warner
WV Secretary of State

The following is a response to a commentary published by The Charleston Gazette-Mail: (https://www.wvgazettemail.com/opinion/op_ed_commentaries/elliot-namay-hurricane-sports-need-mascot-change-opinion/article_286fbab0-8f79-5a14-b844-be1e0f4c5fb2.html)

In response to a recent op-ed advocating for the “canceling” of the moniker “Redskins” used by Hurricane High, as a 23-year veteran of the United States Army, I felt it important to present the facts and statistics as to why such rhetoric to cancel Native Americans from history is not only racist,…