Berg: Time for Teams to Evaluate Names, Mascots

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The highest court in the land ruled Monday that trademarks — offensive or otherwise — are private speech, and as such are protected under the First Amendment. While the ruling came in response to an unrelated case, SCOTUS has set the stage for the Washington Redskins – which had their pejorative trademark yanked back in 2014 – to have the rights over their racist name reinstated.

This is a real opportunity for the organization in Washington, as well as the NFL, to disperse the dark cloud of ignorance that has hung over FedEx Stadium since Washington ownership argued for, and eventually lost, the rights to its antiquated name.

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