Big 'Redskins' critic dresses up in blackface

Terry Rambler

Perhaps prominent Washington Redskins critics Terry Rambler would be more comfortable with the football team if it were named the Washington Blackface.

Terry Rambler, chairman of the San Carlos Apache Tribe in Arizona, chose a blackface Bob Marley fan as his 2015 Halloween costume. The outfit included fake dreadlocks and a Rastafarian hat.

"I had fun tonight at the Bylas Halloween Carnival," Rambler wrote on Facebook Nov. 1.

Rambler is one of multiple signatories to a petition urging the National Football League for a Washington Redskins name change.

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"I'm trying to figure out why this is okay. I guess if others can dress in headdress, dreads and blackface [it's] okay?" said Facebook user TD Mason.

"Natives out here trying to fight cultural appropriation and stereotypes, but then our chairman is doing this? It's 2015. Get out of here with that #blackface," added Skyler Jared.

Rambler did not respond to the criticism.

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The Washington team has been embroiled in a legal fight with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office since this summer when it canceled the team's trademark registration.

U.S. District Court Judge Gerald Bruce Lee ruled July 8 that, "evidence before the Court supports the legal conclusion that between 1967 and 1990," when the marks were registered, they "consisted of matter that 'may disparage' a substantial composite of Native Americans," USA Today reported Tuesday.

The team filed a brief challenging that ruling on Oct. 30.

"To our knowledge, of the over 3 million trademarks registered since 1870, no registration has ever been retroactively canceled for being disparaging," the brief says, the newspaper reported. "The Redskins are the first and only."