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Washington Post: Cancel the Texas Rangers!
It’s not just the Redskins and the Indians anymore. An editor from the Washington Post wants the Texas Rangers canceled. No, not the law enforcement Texas Rangers. (Well yes, actually. Them too.) The baseball team.
The Rangers were set up by the Republic (later the State) of Texas to enforce the laws, including the laws supporting slavery. Therefore, the name has to go. The history is sound. The reasoning based on that history a little less so. Slavery was legal in Washington DC before Abraham Lincoln signed the DC Compensated Emancipation Act in 1862. It took a little longer to re-establish federal control over the State of Texas, but that happened too. However, feelings have been hurt, and we cannot allow hurt feelings.
But if we are going to start renaming teams, the Rangers are only the starting point. Long Island has Rangers; are we renaming them too? Piracy was intimately involved in the slave trade — there goes the Pirates, the Buccaneers, and the Raiders. Bad news for Michigan State too. The Spartans enslaved the Messenians; all the Messenians. The name has got to go. And Portland? Yeah, “Trail Blazers” brings to mind the early settlers who stole this entire continent from the original inhabitants. Shame on you for your implicit imperialism, Portland. Yankees (hated the world over), Sooners, Vikings, Patriots, Pioneers; so many problematic names that we should just rename the lot.
But now, we need new names. I’ve come up with a few.
The Snowflakes.
The Participation Trophy Recipients.
The Hair-Bun Wearing Man-Babies.
Do you have any suggestions?
I almost forgot. Guess the first name of the brave WaPo editor who has issued this demand. Go on. You can do it.
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Also, if it’s racist to name a team after Native Americans, wouldn’t it be equally racist to name a team after African Americans?
Washington F.C.
So say we all.
Except for professional Sportsball. Sportsball is still politburo-approved.
Not white people though.
(from Wikipedia)
The intramural team, a diverse group I might add, adopted the name “Fighting Whites” for basketball to teach the unwoke the error of their ways.
Sales for the tee-shirts they offered went through the roof.
You can only be offended if you give your permission to be offended.
Absolutely outrageous. While the Code Talkers played an important role in WW2, I don’t think naming a football team after them is the right thing to do. A museum, perhaps . . .
Maybe that should be the team name: The Washington Post.
They would even have their own fight song in that case: