Goodell to McCollum: "Neither in intent nor use was the name ever meant to denigrate Native Americans or offend any group."

Betty McCollum represents St. Paul in the House of Representatives, but as co-chair of the Congressional Native American Caucus, she's leading the charge to get a D.C. sports team to change its name.

SEE ALSO: UMD hockey fans warned after "smallpox blankets" chant during Fighting Sioux series

McCollum and eight other Congress members recently wrote a letter to Washington Redskins owner Dan Synder urging him "to change the name of your NFL franchise."

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The study indicates Minnesota is not so welcoming for blacks who smoke weed.

Whatever the reason, Minnesota cops are far more likely to arrest blacks for pot possession than whites, according to a new study by the ACLU.

SEE ALSO: Mark Hamburger's MLB career derailed by pot; he now lives in parents' Shoreview basement

According to the study, blacks were nearly eight times as likely to be arrested for pot in 2010, the last year for which numbers are available. In Ramsey County, blacks were 9.1 times more likely to be arrested.

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Humboldt State University students recently combed through 150,000 geo-coded tweets to determine where America's 140-character racism and homophobia are concentrated.

The researchers put together Google maps compiling their findings. You can zoom in or zoom out to focus on a particular region and sort by particular slurs.

SEE ALSO: Judgmental Mpls neighborhood map might offend you, will probably make you laugh [IMAGE]

One interesting nugget as it pertains to Minnesota is that the Twin Cities region is one of the only ones in the country where the anti-Asian slur "c****k" is still in vogue.

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Some black Hopkins students took serious offense to the stereotypical "rapper" attire worn by white students.

There have been two significant racial incidents at metro schools already this year. In January, racial tensions at Minneapolis's Washburn High School were stoked after a black doll was found hanging from a noose in a school stairwell. Then, the following month, tensions between African-American and Somali students at Minneapolis South High School erupted into an ugly lunchroom brawl.

SEE ALSO: Duluth roiled by two recent blackface incidents [VIDEO]

Now comes word that Hopkins High School is the latest school to be roiled by racial tensions. Two black students there face charges thanks to the way they responded to a "Ghetto Spirit Day" allegedly held by white members of the school's ski team in February.

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We're going to be charitable and assume the University of Iowa doesn't actually base compensation levels on race or hyphens.

Yesterday, the Record of Montezuma, Iowa, published a report disclosing the salaries of University of Iowa employees. In and of itself, that sounds like a worthy project, but Editor-in-chief Chuck Dunham is in hot water over commentary he added to the story.

SEE ALSO: Iowa man busted for repeatedly peeing on attractive female co-workers' office chairs

Dunham wrote: "[T]he relatively high numbers of employees with names from Asia and the Near East is interesting. While there are SMiths [sic] and Jones, there are eleven Ahmeds to only 30 Browns... Hyphenated, unspellable and oriental names may get you the big bucks."

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Three KKK hood-donning students gave a new meaning to "whiteout" Friday night.

Students at Red River High School in Grand Forks, North Dakota, staged a "whiteout" during Friday night's state tournament hockey game against Fargo's Davies High School.

SEE ALSO: Angry hockey dad yells insult while holding infant, tells another parent he'll cave his face in [VIDEO]

But three freshman students ruined the fun by taking the let's-dress-in-all-white idea in a racist direction. They donned KKK-style hoods and wore them for about a minute, then quickly took them off when other students expressed outrage. But a minute was all it took for a student sitting across the arena to snap a photo and later upload it to Twitter.

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Hundley: "I was doing the right thing! I was making the flight better for everyone!"

Charged with assault, out of a job, and with nowhere else to turn after he allegedly directed racial slurs toward and then slapped a 19-month-old aboard an MSP-to-ATL flight, Joe Hundley shared his side of the story yesterday in an Onion op-ed.

SEE ALSO: Joe Hundley allegedly said "shut that [n-bomb] baby up" before slapping toddler during flight

The long and short of it: Who wouldn't do the same thing?

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On top of everything else, Hundley looks eerily similar to Jerry Sandusky.

Joe Hundley allegedly slapped a crying 1-year-old during a Delta MSP-to-ATL flight. That's disgusting enough, but what he said before hitting the baby in the face is almost equally bad.

SEE ALSO: The Onion runs 'op-ed' by alleged drunken baby-slapping racist Joe Hundley

Hundley reportedly told 19-month-old Jonah's mother to "shut that ni***r baby up" and called the toddler a "fucking ni***r" before things got physical.

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This 'Minnesotan' doesn't look Jamaican, but he sure talks like it.

Volkswagen's new Super Bowl ad is set in a Minnesota office building, yet features a white office worker speaking with a thick Jamaican accent.

SEE ALSO: Duluth roiled by two recent blackface incidents [VIDEO]

The idea is he's so enlivened by his new red Volkswagen that he suddenly adopts Bob Marley's worldview, telling his co-workers on a bleak Monday: "No worries, Mon! Every-ting will be all right."

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Ralph Crowder is concerned about the way school administration responded to the incident and the punishments the students involved received.

For Ralph Crowder, parent of a African-American sophomore at Washburn High School in South Minneapolis, the black doll incident we told you about yesterday is as much about school security as it is about race.

SEE ALSO: Duluth roiled by two recent blackface incidents [VIDEO]

"I just want the standard of discipline to be applied evenly based on this serious event," Crowder said during a conversation with City Pages today. "What I fear is that if this isn't dealt with right, you are going to return these kids back to a school that is suffering from some serious emotional trauma, and you're going to set up teenagers to react emotionally on an issue they feel passionate about and somebody might be affected by some violence."

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