What the Cleveland baseball team meant to say:
"The Cleveland Indians today announced our decision to begin the process of changing our team name 'Indians.' Since July, after the pressure of the national racial awakening became too much for us to bear, we grudgingly had an..." #1

"...executive meeting to complain about these liberal snowflakes and decided our business and brand would be adversely affected if we didn't stop being such tone deaf racist assholes. As a result of that process we decided to move forward with changing the current team name.." #2

"... and determining a new, non-Native American, and generally not demeaning or racially or ethnically-based name for the franchise. We believe our organization is at its best when we can unify our community and bring people together to spend money at our business and we..." #3

"...believe a new name will allow us to do this more fully."
Team Owner and Chairman Paul Dolan said, "After finally pulling my head out of my ass and listening to Native people and Native communities after decades of ignoring them and acting as if their voices and pain..." #4

"... weren't worth considering, I have decided that they do matter. When they complain this loudly in the aftermath of George Floyd, I look like a woke Saint for moving a name change forward. Also, I'm afraid of BLM because I heard they also care about other groups besides..." #5

"... Black people, and they seem to have a lot of political power, so I'm just going to pretend that I was never racist. Remember that I am not racist. And I think people should just forget those things I said before about the team name not being offensive and that Native..." #6

"... people can fuck right off. That was not racist of me. Everyone unify and give me your money."
*In the past 100 years, over 115 professional organizations representing civil rights, educational, athletic, and scientific experts have published resolutions or policies..." #7

"... that state that any use of Native American names and/or symbols by non-native sports teams is a harmful form of ethnic stereotyping that promote misunderstanding and prejudice which contributes to other problems faced by Native Americans" #8 @Indians @MLB @Indians_P_Dolan