I live in Cleveland, OH, where only this year, for the first time, are we FINALLY renaming our heinously-known professional baseball team to be known hereafter as the Cleveland GUARDIANS.
This chapter reminds me of the long-sought name change and efforts from so many people here across decades to change the team name. A member of the family that owns of the team is running as a Republican candidate for a US Senator position, and has referenced, in a recent debate, that the name change runs against his personal inclinations and is a matter of a "culture war." (He's the *least* offensive candidate in the GOP field, btw.)
The institutionalized white supremacy that set into systemic policy and practice the pitting of Black people and Indigenous people against each other is barely beginning to be acknowledged in our own era, at last, and the effects are literally as evident and relevant as the merch stands across the street from my office.
I live in Cleveland, OH, where only this year, for the first time, are we FINALLY renaming our heinously-known professional baseball team to be known hereafter as the Cleveland GUARDIANS.
This chapter reminds me of the long-sought name change and efforts from so many people here across decades to change the team name. A member of the family that owns of the team is running as a Republican candidate for a US Senator position, and has referenced, in a recent debate, that the name change runs against his personal inclinations and is a matter of a "culture war." (He's the *least* offensive candidate in the GOP field, btw.)
The institutionalized white supremacy that set into systemic policy and practice the pitting of Black people and Indigenous people against each other is barely beginning to be acknowledged in our own era, at last, and the effects are literally as evident and relevant as the merch stands across the street from my office.