Obama: ‘I’d think about changing’ Washington Redskins team name

Washington Post ^ | 10/5/2013 | By David Nakamura

[tobyhill]

President Obama became the latest, and most high-profile, figure to weigh in against the Washington Redskins’ name, saying he would consider changing it because it offends many Native Americans.

“If I were the owner of the team and I knew that there was a name of my team — even if it had a storied history — that was offending a sizeable group of people, I’d think about changing it,” Obama said in an interview with the Associated Press published Saturday.

It was the first time Obama, a big sports fan who roots for teams from his native Chicago, had been asked his opinion publicly on the controversy surrounding the name of Washington’s professional football franchise.

Team owner Daniel Snyder has said he will not change the name of the team, which has been called the Redskins since George Preston Marshall owned the franchise in Boston in 1933. Marshall moved the team to Washington in 1937, and it has since become one of the National Football League’s most profitable franchises.

[BenLurkin]

BTTT!

[scrabblehack]

He has offended a sizeable minority of people. He needs to change his name from Barack Hussein Obama to something that actually fits his Christian religion.