Historian Calls Saints’ Fleur De Lis Logo Racist, Demands Change

For longer than a decade liberal groups - even the current President - have called the Washington Redskins team name and logo racist and demanded a change. But now there's another NFL squad in their crosshairs: The New Orleans Saints.

The Saints' logo, the French Fleur de Lis, is now being called a symbol of slavery, not unlike the Confederate flag.

From the website The Federalist Papers:

"'“As an African I find it painful, and I think people whose ancestors were enslaved here may feel it even harder than I do as an African,' said slave historian Dr. Ibrahima Seck.

'He connects the usage of the fleur de lis, to “code noir,” or black code, which was adopted in Louisiana in 1724, and used to govern to state’s slave population.

Seck said a slave caught running away, 'would be taken before a court and the sentence would be being branded on one shoulder and with the fleur de lis, and then they would crop their ears.'"

Seck and others are calling for the Saints ownership to immediately change the Fleur de Lis logo to one less offensive and insulting to African-Americans.

Saints management, nor the NFL, has not commented on the demand.