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The day after @Indians decided to drop their name after a century -- and presumably their Twitter account -- a measure of respect is warranted. @MLB resisted change for decades, but Rob Manfred knew it had to change and worked with Cleveland to do away with Chief Wahoo and name.
What the Cleveland baseball team did is proactive business. It's called learning how to be a good corporate citizen in a year of racial reckoning. It's not being backed into a corner by advocacy groups and sponsors until it's too late to save face and control the narrative.
If I'm @Chiefs @Blackhawks or @Braves today, I stop trying to forge relationships & partnerships with Native people to say they like your name and logo and how you "honor" them and I start trying to do right by those Native people hurt and offended you're still caricaturing them.
Whether the Hunt family in KC likes it or not, all these images and logos and names no longer get grandfathered into your modern-day franchise. If we've all learned anything this year it's that it's not right to use a living race of people to be your mascot or team name anymore.
