Now that the Washington Redskins have succumbed to pressure and changed the team's longtime nickname, the cultural cleansing has moved on to other locales. 

Possibly the next major sports team to change its name will be the Cleveland Indians who have been known by that moniker for over a century and while it can no way be interpreted as a slur like the Redskins, it is on the chopping block anyway. 

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According to reports, a contingent of activist players met with team owner Paul Dolan and management to "discuss" the name change and from all indications, actual fans of the MLB team will have zero input into the process. 

Major League Baseball has joined the NFL in promoting far-left, racially inflammatory politics by taking sides with the Marxist-inspired Black Lives Matter movement and sanctioning kneeling during the national anthem. 

Via Cleveland.com, "Cleveland Indians players meet with owner Paul Dolan to share opinions on potential name change":

Indians players on Tuesday joined manager Terry Francona, front office personnel including president of baseball operations Chris Antonetti and general manager Mike Chernoff, as well as owner Paul Dolan in an open forum to voice their opinions about the possibility of the team exploring a name change in the near future.

With Washington’s National Football League team recently dropping “Redskins” as its nickname, national attention has shifted to Cleveland as the next professional sports franchise that could move away from a longtime moniker that many Americans view as insensitive to indigenous people.

Francona admitted that simply holding an open conversation does not necessarily mean a conclusion was reached, and he’s not quite sure that was the goal at this point in the process. But the fact that Indians players handled the dialogue with demonstrable maturity, and the fact that Dolan would come to them in the first place volunteering to listen with an open mind, made Tuesday a good day. 

The Indians already did away with beloved mascot Chief Wahoo but it wasn't enough. 

Ironically, the Indians were named as a tribute to the first Native-American player in professional baseball history.

Louis Sockalexis was a member of the Penobscot Tribe who played for the Cleveland Spiders from 1897-1899.

Sockalexis faced many of the same problems as African-American pioneers like Jackie Robinson due to his race.

He was taunted, slurred, and mocked by opposing fans with war whoops and other derogatory gestures due to his being an Indian and had serious problems with alcoholism that adversely impacted his short career. How the pressure of being the first Native American contributed to his issues is a matter of speculation but it sure as hell didn’t help.

According to his Wikipedia page:

Although Sockalexis had a brief career, he faced many obstacles during his time in professional baseball. It was reported that fans of the opposing teams often shouted racial slurs toward him due to his Penobscot heritage. Additionally, fans imitated war whoops and war dances in his presence. Later, when sports journalists attributed his rapid decline to alcoholism, they identified the disease as the inherent “Indian weakness”.

When the Cleveland Naps changed their name to the Indians in 1915, the franchise reportedly did so to honor Sockalexis. The Indians’ official media guide says that the owners solicited sportswriters to ask fans for their favorite nickname, and the name Indians was chosen by a young girl who wrote to one of the sportswriters whose column requested suggestions. She specifically mentioned Sockalexis and his heritage. A brief story in the February 28, 1915, issue of the Plain Dealer states that the Cleveland Indians would wear the depiction of an Indian head on the left sleeves of their uniforms to “keep the Indians reminded of what the Braves did last year.” Sockalexis had died two years earlier.

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You will never hear that very important bit of context from the left when the topic of “racist” sports nicknames and mascots come up. The truth is not something to be bothered with when there is an underlying ideology because ideologues already have ALL of the answers and the only way that they can prevail is by not allowing anything that conflicts with their narrative to get out.

he quickest thing that would sink the liberal argument that history should be cleansed by forcing sports teams to change their nicknames is the simple fact that those nicknames were coined to honor Native Americans and not denigrate them.

The Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) which is a respected authority on baseball history has perhaps the definitive article on the namesake for the Cleveland Indians from which I excerpt the following:

Louis Sockalexis, a member of the Penobscot Indian tribe of Maine, played in only 94 major league games, but is remembered today as the first Native American, and first recognized minority, to perform in the National League. He was signed by the Cleveland Spiders in 1897, fifty years before Jackie Robinson broke baseball’s color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers. Sockalexis, like Robinson a multi-talented athlete who excelled in football and track as well as baseball, appeared destined for stardom, but alcoholism derailed his promising career. He is, however, at least indirectly responsible for the nickname “Indians” as applied to the present American League team in Cleveland.

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Cleveland’s American League team (which began play in 1900) had been called the Naps in honor of playing manager Napoleon Lajoie, but when Lajoie left the team after the 1914 season, a new nickname was in order. In January 1915, team owner Charles Somers, after consulting with several local sportswriters, decided to revive the name that had defined the city’s National League club 18 years before. Somers, perhaps recalling the all-too-brief period of excitement that Louis Sockalexis had brought to Cleveland in 1897, dubbed his team the Indians, a name that remains to this day.

The MLB season which has been delayed by the coronavirus panic is slated to begin on Thursday with Dr. Anthony Fauci throwing the ceremonial first pitch when the swamp's hometeam the Washington Nationals begin their title defense in the abbreviated season. 

The Indians will open their season on Friday against the Kansas City Royals in a home game that will feature no fans in the stands.