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It's Not Only Cleveland and Atlanta. The Texas Rangers Are Named After A Racist "Death Squad" Who Terrorized Natives Americans, Mexicans, And Blacks For 130 Years

The owner of Washington, DC's NFL team stated last Monday that the team's racist slur of a nickname will be changed. It was a historic decision. Owner Daniel Synder had fiercely resisted all calls to change the name for more than two decades.

In major league baseball, Commissioner Rob Manfred has had periodic discussions with the owners of the Cleveland team about the retirement of their racist nickname (the team's super-duper racist logo is finally being phased out, but slowly). The team in Atlanta appears less willing to join the 20th Century, having discussed outlawing "the Chop" among fans in the stands, but that's about it.