--- description: Hillary Clinton urged the owners of the Washington Redskins to consider changing the team name, arguing that it was "insensitive" during a television interview on Tuesday. title: Hillary Clinton to Redskins: Change Your Name image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt589953217b601dd4/69869dbecd684819e6095dc4/186042991.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Politics](/section/politics/) ## Politics Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Hillary Clinton: Redskins Should Change 'Insensitive' Name  by [Dan Kedmey](/author/dan-kedmey/)  ## Dan Kedmey Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 30, 2014 11:48 AM CUT  Kordell Kills Crow, Gerard Montour and Chuntay Her Many Horses sing and play the drums during their protest outside of Sports Authority Field at Mile High in Denver, Co on October 27, 2013. Kordell Kills Crow, Gerard Montour and Chuntay Her Many Horses sing and play the drums during their protest outside of Sports Authority Field at Mile High in Denver, Co on October 27, 2013.Helen H. Richardson—Denver Post / Getty Images  by [Dan Kedmey](/author/dan-kedmey/)  ## Dan Kedmey Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 30, 2014 11:48 AM CUT Hillary Clinton urged the owners of the Washington Redskins to consider changing the team name in a Tuesday television [interview,](http://www.mediaite.com/tv/jorge-ramos-asks-hillary-clinton-do-you-have-a-latino-problem/ "undefined") arguing that the current name was “insensitive”. “I think it’s insensitive and I think that there’s no reason for it to continue as the name of a team in our nation’s capital,” Clinton [said](http://www.mediaite.com/tv/jorge-ramos-asks-hillary-clinton-do-you-have-a-latino-problem/ "undefined") on Fusion’s _America with Jorge Ramos_. “I would love to see the owners think hard about what they could substitute.” Pressed to think of alternatives, Clinton demurred. “No, I haven’t thought a lot about that,” she said. The team name has come [under fire](http://time.com/108893/washington-redskins-name-senators/ "undefined") from politicians and advocacy groups this year. In June, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office [revoked](http://time.com/2894299/washington-redskins-trademark/ "undefined") the team’s trademark, arguing that no company had the right to trademark names that could “disparage” a group of people. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3057262/hillary-clinton-redskins-jorge-ramos/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3057262/hillary-clinton-redskins-jorge-ramos/"},"headline":"Hillary Clinton: Redskins Should Change 'Insensitive' Name","datePublished":"2014-07-30T11:48:21.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T09:24:49.138Z","description":"\"There's no reason for it to continue as the name of a team in our nation's capital\"","url":"https://time.com/3057262/hillary-clinton-redskins-jorge-ramos/","keywords":["Hillary Clinton","democrats","Washington Redskins"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt589953217b601dd4/69869dbecd684819e6095dc4/186042991.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Dan Kedmey","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/dan-kedmey/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt589953217b601dd4/69869dbecd684819e6095dc4/186042991.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"American Indian Movement protest the Washington Redskins as they arrive in town to play the Denver Broncos at Sports Authority Field at Mile HIgh in Denver, Co.","caption":"American Indian Movement protest the Washington Redskins as they arrive in town to play the Denver Broncos at Sports Authority Field at Mile HIgh in Denver, Co.","creditText":"Helen H. Richardson—Denver Post / Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3057262/hillary-clinton-redskins-jorge-ramos/","name":"Hillary Clinton: Redskins Should Change 'Insensitive' Name"}}]}] ```