In 2016, it is time for DC sports fans to come together and create a football mascot we can all support proudly: Introducing the Washington Harambes.

The Problem: The Washington Redskins have a racist team name. In 2016, reducing people to the color of their skin, up to and including plastering a stereotyped depiction of an entire race all over a stadium, is considered, at the very least, a social faux pas.

The Redskins leadership has repeatedly refused to admit what most decent human beings concede: the mascot needs to be changed. While other owners focus on hiring stable coaches and improving the game-day experience for fans, Dan Snyder has spent millions on North Korea-style propaganda campaigns directed at keeping the name.

All the while, the team continues to lose. Many fans now believe the team's continued failure is the result of Native American shamans (shamen?) who have cursed the team.

No one has presented a viable alternative everyone can get behind (sorry Washington Redskin Potatoes): Until Now!

Solution: In 2016, man kind lost the greatest hero it has ever known in tragic murder of the glorious western lowland gorilla, Harambe.

Harambe's killing brought social media and the world at large together in support of our furry friend. Even presidential candidates Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, and Jill Stein agree: We are all Harambe.

Changing the name of the Washington Redskins to the Washington Harambes isn't just the right thing to do for our football team and our city to correct the racism of the current mascot, it is the right thing to do as man kind in order to honor our fallen hero.

It is time for a new mascot and a new day in human history.

With this petition I hope to bring about a day we can finally say, WE ARE ALL THE WASHINGTON HARAMBES.