Comment: Slants is also racial term like Orientals or Negroes. And anachronistic racial terms, or any racial terms, for that matter, should not be used as mascots. We don't have teams like the Negroes or Orientals for a good reason. Pirates are not a race nor is it derogatory to an entire continent of people. Names like Vikings, Irish, etc are not racial either. Furthermore most all those teams have a substantial majority of the community who belong to the referenced group. Minnesota has the largest Scandinavian population (Vikings), and Massachusetts has the largest Irish (and Celtic) population (Celtics).  DC Metro is not a Native American haven nor are the owners, players or fans substantially Native.