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Washington Post editor says Texas Rangers name 'must go,' gets slammed by critics
Fox News ^ | July 13 2020 | Joseph A. Wulfsohn

Posted on 07/13/2020 10:56:03 PM PDT by knighthawk

Washington Post Global Opinions editor Karen Attiah argued on Monday that the Texas Rangers as a team name "must go."

On the heels of the Washington Redskins retiring its name and mascot amid pressure from critics and corporate sponsors, an op-ed written by Attiah made the case that "to know the full history of the Texas Rangers is to understand that the team’s name is not so far off from being called the Texas Klansmen."

Growing up in Dallas, Attiah recalled going to Rangers games with her father as a child, but not realizing at the time that the Rangers "were a cruel, racist force when it came to the nonwhites who inhabited the beautiful and untamed Texas territory."

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 2020election; anchorbaby; antiamericanism; districtofcolumbia; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; election2020; jeffbezos; karenattiah; mediawingofthednc; orwelliannightmare; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; rangers; revisionisthistory; sidebarabuse; smearmachine; sports; texas; texasrangers; washingtoncompost; washingtonpost; washpoo
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To: knighthawk

Sports history writers and readers of the future will have a hard time keeping up with all the name changes.

The books will be full of “footnotes” noting that the name of such and such teams until 2020 was *******s, and was changed to ***** in 2030, and again changed to ****s in 2040, and so on and so on.


61 posted on 07/14/2020 6:40:03 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: a fool in paradise
The New Left has been around since 1968

This New Left is all about Deconstructing America and is on display in the open air near you. It's why the Democratic Party is so Fruity right now and so is the Media.

Wake up, smell the coffee.

62 posted on 07/14/2020 6:41:17 AM PDT by CptnObvious (Question her now.)
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To: knighthawk

63 posted on 07/14/2020 6:41:31 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: knighthawk

She obviously knows nothing about the Comanche and their favorite forms of community outreach. :)


64 posted on 07/14/2020 6:41:48 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: a fool in paradise; wardaddy; enumerated; LS; bitt; Pelham; thinden; Liz; Alberta's Child; ...
the Washington Redskins retiring its name and mascot amid pressure from critics and corporate sponsors

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I found the word "Washington" more offensive than "Redskins"

(Apparently the Indians feel the same way.)

****

65 posted on 07/14/2020 6:44:03 AM PDT by a little elbow grease ( ....... F.Lee Levin)
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To: knighthawk

Washington Post Global Opinions editor Karen Attiah trying to get his idiot’s license renewed he passed.


66 posted on 07/14/2020 6:45:31 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: MinorityRepublican; knighthawk
They came for the Redskins and the Indians. Tomorrow they will take away Texas Rangers and Dallas Cowboys.

_________________

The Barbary Pirates were some of the worst (prolific) slave traders in the world.

Bye, bye to my Pittsburgh Pirates.

67 posted on 07/14/2020 6:50:00 AM PDT by a little elbow grease ( ....... F.Lee Levin)
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To: PallMal

She went to some liberal arts college and was indoctrinated (brainwashed) with Marxist/Black/Socialist ideas.


68 posted on 07/14/2020 6:53:10 AM PDT by octex
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To: knighthawk

WaPo = Whale of Poo


69 posted on 07/14/2020 6:54:25 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Vaduz

Her name rings a bell. This isn’t the only really dumb thing she’s said recently.


70 posted on 07/14/2020 6:57:10 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: CptnObvious

The New Left of 1968 were Maoists who said “kill your parents” and that includes a tract from the Black Panthers who are to this day praised by PBS.


71 posted on 07/14/2020 7:29:17 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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To: knighthawk

One should ask her how many history and biography books she has read about the Texas Rangers. If none, or just one, she should apologize for being uninformed.


72 posted on 07/14/2020 7:37:57 AM PDT by alternatives? (Why have an army if there are no borders?)
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To: knighthawk

So aptly named, Karen is.

She needs to pray for brains.


73 posted on 07/14/2020 7:43:07 AM PDT by simpson96
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To: campaignPete R-CT

OOOhhhh... That would be a good retort to those that cant understand that the lack of a father figure is directly linked to low academic achievement, drug use, poverty, etc. I am gonna steal that.


74 posted on 07/14/2020 8:05:40 AM PDT by RainMan (rainman)
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To: Conservinator

Conservinator wrote:

“Hey Karen - I am a native born Texan from DFW. Let me put this as succinctly as I can . . . Eat $hit and die bitch!!! Stay the hell out of Texas and keep your $hit eating mouth shut. We don’t need no stinking opinions from you!!! If I wanted an opinion from you I would have given you one!!!”

Change the name of the Texas Rangers?

Not just NO,

But

OH H3LL NO !!!


75 posted on 07/14/2020 8:43:40 AM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57 returning after lurking since 2000)
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To: RainMan

Black Cats Matter


77 posted on 07/14/2020 9:46:45 AM PDT by campaignPete R-CT (Committee to Re-Elect the President ( CREEP ))
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To: knighthawk

If the Texas Rangers were cruel, they can rename the team after the Comanches, the notoriously peaceful indigenous population, the Quakers among Native American tribes.


78 posted on 07/14/2020 11:22:17 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: knighthawk

I really should have been born centuries earlier when civilization still existed.


79 posted on 07/14/2020 8:32:45 PM PDT by Arcadian Empire
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