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FedEx is calling for a name change. If a national racial reckoning won't sway Dan Snyder, what will?

Change is OK, Dan Snyder.

To learn and to grow and to acknowledge that while some things may have been acceptable decades ago, they just aren’t anymore. It’s called personal evolution. It’s called, for many of us, being a good citizen.

There were a lot of things that happened in 1933 that don’t happen now — neighborhoods, schools and sports were kept segregated by law, there were only 48 states, women weren’t allowed to serve on juries, heck, prohibition didn’t end in the United States until December 1933.

And in ’33, George Preston Marshall, who was a bigot until the day he died, chose to change the name of his Washington football team from the Braves to the R--skins.