Kenny Still calls out Washington Redskins logo on Twitter

Kenny Stills called out the Washington Redskins logo as something that needs to be a part of the ongoing change. 

Let’s spare hyperbole: The Washington Redskins have a team name that blatantly commercializes a racial slur.

It’s not a new conversation that someone stumbled upon as Americans continue to look inward at how our society can be overall better than it historically has been. But it’s not a conversation that is either going away or getting lost in the shuffle of all the change that is happening thanks to, as Dave Chappelle put it in his latest special, the streets are talking for themselves.

People are listening, finally, but satisfactory progress isn’t the end goal.

Kenny Stills has been a prominent supporter of the Black Lives Matter movement, dating back to when Colin Kaepernick first took a knee in peaceful protest during the national anthem four years ago. Stills continues to peacefully protest during NFL games and is using his platform to create wholesale change.

Stills took to Twitter this week to call out Washington’s logo and rekindle the conversation about why it needs to change.

Why is Kenny Stills calling out the Washington Redskins logo?

This isn’t’ the first time Washington has been called out for having a racist logo and team name.

Ever since Daniel Snyder bought the team back in the late 90s, there have been calls for the name to change. John Oliver devoted an entire segment of his show Last Week Tonight in 2014 to explain why the name is causing so much outrage and then destroying any counterarguments that defend not changing it.

After Washington participated in Blackout Tuesday, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called them out and questioned the team’s motives to support ending racial injustice while still boasting a name that is a slur against Native Americans.

Snyder has remained steadfast that the name isn’t changing, and has gone to great lengths to try and mute the conversation around it. These antics include but are not limited to Synder bringing Native Americans to midfield before and during games to show that the outrage is being felt by most isn’t being felt by all — specifically the Native American community.

Despite the obviousness of why the name is a problem in any decade, let alone one that is 20 years into the 21st Century, Snyder doesn’t appear to be changing the name of his team anytime soon. That doesn’t mean that people like Kenny Stills aren’t well within their rights to remind everyone at any given time that a team named the Redskins still exists and why that needs to stop being the case.