Last month, Washington Examiner sports columnist Rick Snider addressed the re-emerging controversy surrounding the Washington NFL franchise’s nickname, “the Redskins.” Is the name offensive? More importantly, are Native Americans actually offended by it? And should they be?

Snider wrote that American Indians and the Redskins franchise are “[p]olar opposites unable to understand why the other won’t alter its viewpoint.” But Snider contradicted this black-and-white view six paragraphs later, with an anecdote about Sioux leaders who didn’t mind the name. And the only person he quoted who asserted the name was offensive was the Rev. Graylan Hagler, whom Wikipedia identifies as African-American, not American Indian.