Should we change the name of Washington D.C.? Political correctness run amok

There is a joke going around about the owner of the football team, the Washington Redskins. He is being besieged on all sides by politically corrects folks demanding that he change the name of the team. The name is offensive. It is so insensitive. It is hurtful to so many. Finally the owner agrees. He says, "OK! You're right. I will change the name. I will drop the offensive word – Washington."

With the politically correct demands being put forward on American campuses over the past weeks, some may soon be demanding that the name of our capital be changed. After all, George Washington was a slaveholder. In fact, one of the largest slaveholders in the South! And he only got around to freeing his slaves upon his death. Accordingly, he must be considered a "racist" by liberal and left-leaning students and faculty in the Academy. How can we have our nation's capital be named after a racist, regardless of the fact that he was the "Father" of the nation? Of course, that is a problem too, because as the Father of the nation, he was a part of the patriarchal society which oppressed women. Two strikes and you are out in this league.