Only RGIII can make the Redskins change their name. Here’s why he won’t.

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Mike Wise is a sports columnist for The Washington Post.

Before he lay in a hospital bed, convalescing after reconstructive knee surgery, I thought that Robert Griffin III would be the perfect person to take on a problem that’s been plaguing Washington for decades: our football team’s ill-considered, objectionable, offensive, racist, totally unacceptable name.

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