Black Lives Matter Fighting Spirit Replaces Washington Redskins Football Team • Owner Dan Snyder may give up the name, but not before making muscle and a few more billions • Cleveland Indians baseball team

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Not that we are missing out on the topic of fighting in Israel, but just think about what would happen here if the capital's football team called "Jerusalem Mix" or "Fifth Jerusalem Brotherhood". Then, when they told the group owner, a Jewish billionaire, that not only could it not be a "registered sign" - because, after all, it was a kind of racist curse, because it was an offensive name for Arabs - he would try to explain that the name actually gives respect to the Arabs. Would anyone believe him?

That's pretty much the case with the Washington Redskins football team. If you ask Google, the term Redskins (red-skinned) is an "old-fashioned and abusive" nickname that describes Native Americans (who many still call, by mistake, Native Americans). If you ask Wikipedia, it is a word that has been "misused" throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries, and in contemporary dictionaries it is often labeled as "usually used abusively", "disparaging", "insulting" and "taboo" (Meaning a word not used).

Snyder and the mayor of Columbia County Muriel Bowser. Resistance // Photo: IP

And yet, somehow, for a very long time, there has been a public debate in the United States around many people's desire to see the team name change, and even in 2014 Southpark aired one of their brilliant (and that means a lot) episodes - after the group Lost in a legal battle over the exclusivity of the commercial use of the name - and although the US has known quite a few social protests in recent years, somehow, even today it is the name of the group.

To drop another statue,

but now, in the spirit of social awakening that the Black Lives Matter movement is gaining in the American public, and even very old American brands such as Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben's (food brands that are saturated with stereotypical racialized discourses) have announced their names and names. Theirs, the debate over the name of Washington's professional football team came up again. Last weekend, it was also the second item in the super-popular Today show, just following the Corona updates. And this time around, it seems like the wind is finally strong enough to knock down this statue, and on the way to bring about the change, or at least the cartoon logo, of the Cleveland Indians baseball team.

Profit is guaranteed

most of the criticism (swear it's not intentional pun) is abducting, and rightly so, Dan Snyder - the Redskins billionaire owner. The person who has since bought the group in 1999, whenever this discussion arises (or comes to court), expresses fierce and condescending opposition to the whole story. He also mostly takes an eye-opening approach, and as they described in South Park - mostly informs everyone that they can go to hell.

So now they say Snyder no longer has a choice, and that he'll change the name and maybe even sell the group as part of it. But somehow, in the end, Snyder is going to come out very profitable from this whole story. First, it will make a lot of fans buy the latest Redskins products, before the name change. Immediately afterwards, he would reap the rewards from selling the products with the new name, and then only then would he sell the team - which he bought for $ 750-800 million (which was the most expensive sports deal ever) and now equals 3.4 $ 1 billion according to Forbes magazine.

Indians fans. New signs will be issued soon // Photo: GettyImages

And maybe, in the end, another billionaire who becomes even richer is a small, irrelevant price to pay to see another statue, stone, flag and marker of racial discourse and culture give way. This does not mean that racism will go away forever through such a symbolic act, but discourse helps to shape and create reality, so that fans grow up in a world where a group of that name does not exist at all, and is another step away from a reality that is important to see as it goes away and disappears in the reflection of the rearview mirror. A reality that is commonly used in words intended to hurt entire populations is really wrong. No matter which capital city, and which population.