Name Change.......again.

[RedskinRat]

It must be the offseason as this comes up with monotonous regularity:

Redskins Name Change Discussion Necessary, Says D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray

“I think that if they get serious with the team coming back to Washington, there’s no doubt there’s going to have to be a discussion about that,” Gray said, according to the Washington Post. "I think it has become a lightning rod, and I would be love to be able to sit down with the team … and see if a change should be made. There’s a precedent for this, and I think there needs to be a dispassionate discussion about this, and do the right thing.”

Amusingly, the article sets up the argument thus:

For decades, the team name has been a controversial issue. Some call the "Redskins" moniker nothing short of a racial slur. Others argue that the team's name, which dates back to the 1930s, is tradition and does not need to be changed.

So "It's racist" is countered by the equivalent of "We don't care".