Yesterday, 50 Democratic senators wrote to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, urging the NFL to change the name of the Washington Redskins to something that isn’t a “racial slur.” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who has been calling for a name change for quite some time, weighed in on the Dems’ campaign:
“Sure not going to do any harm,” Reid said when asked about the letter. “The NFL has a lot of problems with all the lawsuits being filed against them for their negligence, and it would seem to me that it would make a lot of sense that they should get rid of having a group of Americans as mascots. They’re not mascots – they’re human beings. I have 22 tribes in Nevada and they’re insulted by this cavalier attitude about what they’re being called.”
Reid said he didn’t know why the signatures of Senate Republicans don’t appear on the letter. “They should get their own letter,” he said.
D.C.-born rapper Wale, though, isn’t impressed with Reid’s professed commitment to fighting racism. This morning, he took to Twitter to call out the “sketchy” senator:
https://twitter.com/Wale/status/469844463658221568
https://twitter.com/Wale/status/469844627064094720
https://twitter.com/Wale/status/469845259732918272
https://twitter.com/Wale/status/469845361612574720
https://twitter.com/Wale/status/469845520396345345
https://twitter.com/Wale/status/469845869727326208
http://twitter.com/Wale/status/469846165589331968
https://twitter.com/Wale/status/469846486386475009
https://twitter.com/Wale/status/469847216900018176
Bam.
Oh, and for the record, Wale wants to make it clear that this is solely about Harry Reid’s hypocrisy:
@cthagod can you tell @Wale to stop trying to make it look like Obamas a good President ?
— MyNamesNick (@CaptainKirk93_) May 23, 2014
https://twitter.com/Wale/status/469848812354564098
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