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Rust Belt Dignity: Life after Rust in Cleveland

Guest post by Richey Piiparinen

Everything is Awesome and There’s Nothing to See Here

 
Me getting waterboarded with radiation.)

It started with a mutation that kicked off a cell division that birthed a brain mass that made me see things that were not there and to miss things that were. That’s cancer purified. To take was working and break it. To take what was pink and charcoal it. To take what was pliable and harden it. To take what was benign at worst, and beautiful at best, and change the parameters so invasive and scarred were the new bookends that bounded what’s possible, if not probable.

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Cleveland Indians will abandon Chief Wahoo logo next year

Via True Pundit

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Bowing to pressure by critics who have called it culturally offensive, the Cleveland Indians will remove the Chief Wahoo logo from its jerseys and caps beginning in the 2019 season.

After discussions with Major League Baseball and Commissioner Rob Manfred, the Indians will no longer sport the red-faced, smiling caricature during games.

The logo, which had been used by the team since 1947, has been deemed racist and offensive by critics.

Manfred told the Associated Press that the team conveyed to him that some fans have a “long-standing attachment” to the logo, but the Indians agreed that it’s “no longer appropriate” to use on the baseball field. – READ MORE

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