‘A cruel, racist force’: Washington Post editor demands Texas Rangers team name ‘must go’

Published July 13, 2020 6:24pm ET



An editor at the Washington Post is calling for the Texas Rangers to rename their Major League Baseball team.

“To know the full history of the Texas Rangers is to understand that the team’s name is not so far off from being called the Texas Klansmen,” Karen Attiah, a global opinions editor at the Washington Post, wrote in an op-ed published Monday.

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