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Beyond the Scenes - How Washington's NFL Team Name Went from a Racial Slur to the Commanders

The Daily Show: Ears Edition

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I Had No Idea About Warriors

I did not realize until very recently, that like sports teams that are the warriors, that that was basically a euphemism for previous native names. Like i was on a litle team when i was nine years old that was called rors. And it hit me one day. It was navy blue with red letters across. We were the cleveland indians. I had no idea of this. When they were selling the old gear on the webst site, and i looked at it, and you would be shocked if you looked at what it was like. It was just terribly savage native imagery from, like, the 19 fifties. But then wean the link was gone,

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