Tribalism

On Monday, after 106 years, the Cleveland Major League Baseball team played their last home game as the Indians, and after their final regular season game of 2021 on Sunday, they will no longer be called the Cleveland Indians. Their new nickname will be the Guardians which is a worse nickname than the Washington Football Team of the NFL who have yet to choose a new name after relinquishing their 88-year name, the Redskins.

The most pressing question is, how does this help the people of Native American descent? It doesn’t. Not one of their lives will be improved by changing these names. It does not fix the poverty, the unemployment, the failing schools, the scourge of addiction that many Native Americans have to live with every day. All those problems will be as real next week, as they were in June of 2020 when the name Redskins was put into mothballs forever. There is not one of the 5.2 million Native Americans who can point to one thing in their life that is better today because of that change, not one. This is the height of liberal virtual signaling. Doing something without doing something.