NFL Team FINALLY Changes Name and Logo

The racist white dude tears are flowing all over twitter this morning. Cuz in racist white dude land, nothing that they were taught as children was wrong.

They don't mind the changes like the invention of the internet, cell phones, tech, etc. BUT the world's hierarchies and tone-deaf traditions must carry on just as they were "when I was young."

Awesome!

Just FYI. They change logos all the time.

If it was 'Braves' as in 'brave people'...but we all know one of the former logos included native american mascot.

"The Atlanta Braves have a total of 29 different logos starting back in the Boston Beaneaters days. In the beginning, the team bounced between team nicknames, wordmark, and different styles of the letter “B.” The last logo for the Boston Braves was the first logo that was not a letter or city name. They had three different versions of the logo featuring a native American. Today’s logo does not have a native American a part of the logo."

I just read the tomahawk chop will go away. The name stays.

They have said they aren't changing and I applaud them. They were named "the Braves" to honor Native Americans. People that aren't in that group are getting their panties in a wad and now they are supposed to change? The Cleveland Indians are going to the Spiders? WTH? Lame.

I might be wrong but I’ve always heard Cincinnati Reds used to be called the Red Stockings and then they shortened it to Reds.

When you know better, you do better. Or at least compassionate people do.

It is absolutely ridiculous that anyone would not know that "Redskins" is very offensive!! How ignorant can you be? Everyone would agree that if the team name was the "Washington Nig**rs" that that would be very racist and offensive. Why can you not see the "Redskins" is the same to most NA? As in "you dirty redskin" Where and who is this tribe of Redskins you are trying to honor? No NA that didn't have to dig up a ggggrandfather for a blood fusion thinks that that is "honoring their culture".

I'm quite sure she means that in history, Pirates, Vikings and Buccaneers had/traded slaves. 

From 'NEVER' to Name Change, How Dan Snyder Lost Redskins Battle

www.newsweek.com/never-name-change-dan-snyder-washington-owner-1517385

"Just over seven years ago, Snyder, who purchased the franchise in 1999 for $800 million following the death of previous owner Jack Kent Cooke, famously told USA Today that the name of the franchise would never change.

"We will never change the name of the team," he was quoted as saying.

"As a lifelong Redskins fan, and I think that the Redskins fans understand the great tradition and what it's all about and what it means, so we feel pretty fortunate to be just working on next season. [...] We'll never change the name. It's that simple. NEVER—you can use caps.""



The old ways are finally dying.

Finally.

Wish they'd died centuries ago.

I am glad I am alive to see part of it.

I am hopeful for a more peaceful, more just future, not run by old white men who cling to old white ways - but with leadership from ALL races, genders, creeds, backgrounds.

They were originally named after a Notice American warrior.  The issue comes with the ways in which the team and media use it. "The Braves Were Scalped Last Night" is certainly not a positive headline. The Tomahawk chop, the mascot being an American Indian: Chief Noa-A-Homa/Princess Win-A -Lotta(certainly making fun of American Indian name structure).

American Indian Braves were:  For plains Indians such as the Sioux or Apache this included killing and scalping an enemy, capturing a horse, disarming an opponent, infiltrating the enemy's camp, taking a prisoner, or striking the same opponent three times in battle. A positive thing in their culture at the time, but not necessarily a positive at this point i history.

And to be honest, then the majority of tribal nations are calling for them to be replaces, I'm going to side with them, as it's their culture we (the white people) have been appropriating as we see fit, without regard to anyone.

Thank you for the clarification. Slave trade is not the first thought that comes to my mind when I hear those terms, so I did not get the reference.

There has been a lot of discussion about other institutions using slave labor early in their history, and that was my first thought. I was genuinely curious about the origins.