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Gov. Kemp says suggesting the Atlanta Braves change their name is 'woke cancel culture,' but Native Americans have found Indian mascots offensive for decades

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Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp said efforts to change the name of the Atlanta Braves baseball team are the result of "woke cancel culture," but Native American communities have called out racist team names and mascots years before either term entered politicians' vocabularies.