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    Clarence Page: Washington’s slur is an easy call, but ‘Blackhawks’ has value

    by Clarence Page, Tribune Content Agency Jul 15, 2020 3 minutes

    Now that Washington’s NFL team has announced its “retirement” of the racial slur that has been its brand name since 1933, I am tempted to gloat a little.

    I feel as if I have earned it. But I didn’t have much chance to do so before new and thornier questions rose up: What about the Chicago Blackhawks?

    And the Cleveland Indians, the Atlanta Braves and the Kansas City Chiefs?

    Here we go again. I put up with national mockery-by-internet-meme

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