Posted on 12/20/2013 8:33:57 AM PST by Tailgunner Joe
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said Wednesday that the Washington Redskins should change their name.
In an interview with The Hill, Reid said, “I think [Washington Redskins owner Dan] Snyder is so shortsighted on this.”
He added, “We live in a society where you can’t denigrate a race of people. And that’s what that is. I mean, you can’t have the Washington Blackskins. I think it’s so shortsighted.”
Earlier this year, Snyder said he would never change the name. Asked for comment, a spokesman for the Redskins referred to the letter Snyder wrote to the team's fans earlier this year on the name controversy
The three most powerful Democrats in Washington — President Obama, Reid and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) — have now urged the Redskins to rethink their mascot.
Pelosi told The Hill in October that it “probably would be a good idea if they change the name.”
Obama, meanwhile, told The Associated Press this fall that he would think about changing the name if he owned the team.
Reid noted that other sports teams have changed their controversial monikers, including the Washington Wizards. The professional basketball team used to be named the Washington Bullets.
Other members of Congress who have called for the Redskins to change their name include Reps. Tom Cole (R-Okla.) and Betty McCollum (D-Minn.) and Dels. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) and Eni Faleomavaega (D-American Samoa).
Nope! Just make a Potato the team mascot! Problem solved.
denigrate... isn't that a word that should be changed as racist? And what is he talking about... whites, especially males, are dumped on all the time.
Change it to the Washington Pajama Boys.
I agree, the name is offensive.
They should drop the “Washington” from the name.
Dims must be driven from public life, entirely.
They should have no say in anything, ever.
The Little Dictator, Harry Reid.
Mitch finally called him a dictator.
I guess that’s progress.
Shut up Harry! When Americans want any crap out of you, we’ll unscrew your head and dip it out. You worry about the mascots in Nevada and let Washington worry about its mascot.
Hiw about they change it to the Washington Brave Redskin Seminoles?
Make Hairy Reed the team mascot. Dress him up in a girly man costume and let a Rottweiler chase him around the field.
Note to Harry Reid: Right after you re-name the ACA to CommieCare.
Obama’s latest poll numbers must really be bad!
I have to admit that this years record of the Redskins pretty much denigrates the name of the team, although that has no bearing on the Indians.
Harry Reid can KMA.
If it denigrates a “people”, where was Harry’s outrage years ago when they were also called Redskins. What hypocrites liberals are.
Has Harry Reid weighed in on the offensive name of the Nevada-Las Vegas Running Rebels? Why doesn’t he talk about a major university in his own state, which is honoring rebellion, and could be said to honor the Confederacy with such a name.
Also, why are government officials talking about Indian nicknames so much recently? Don’t they have anything better to do, than stick their nose into areas which are none of their business???
I’m no big fan of Dan Snyder or the Redskins, but, I think Dan Snyder knows better how to run his football team than does Harry Reid. Which includes whatever nickname he gives to the team he owns. Sheesh.....
Libs think they are on a roll after going after DD.
Who else is next?
Libs think they are on a roll after going after DD.
Who else is next?
Reid should change his name which is a synonym now for a dirtbag politician.
This is definitely the beginning of a planned, coordinated attack - nothing these scumbags talk about isnt pre-planned months in advance
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