In 1988 after winning the Super Bowl, former team owner Jack Kent Cooke came under fire from groups wanting to change the team name.

“There is not a single, solitary jot, tittle, with chance in the world” that the team would change its name Cooke said at the time. “I like the name, and it’s not a derogatory name,” he added.

The conversation continued three years later in 1991 after the team returned to the Super Bowl, and again in 2006. In 2013 the Oneida Indian Nation started a season long protest, protesting each one of the team’s away games.

President Obama even chimed in that year saying, “If I were the owner of the team and I knew that there was a name of my team — even if it had a storied history — that was offending a sizable group of people, I’d think about changing it.”

The next year, 50 U.S. Senators signed a letter protesting the name of Washington’s football club. Later in 2014, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office canceled six trademarks held by the team, calling the nickname “disparaging to Native Americans.” This was later overturned by the Supreme Court in 2017.

While the current team logo was created by a Native American in 1971,

and some studies suggest that some Native Americans don’t find the nick-name offensive, it’s evident that many have been fighting for a name change for years. Some even question the nature of the studies which make such suggestions, as the surveys are often conducted in a long telephone list-type of style often swaying the results of the study. Also, it’s no secret that some of those studies were conducted by the team itself, who have in the past said that they would not change the team name. So why would anyone assume that team conducted surveys were done so in good faith?

Current team owner Dan Snyder purchased the team for a then record $800 million in 1999, following the death of Jack Kent Cooke.

In 2013, Snyder told USA Today to “put it in all caps” that the 87-year-old nickname would not change. Rumors that Snyder would sell the team before he changed the nickname even began popping up.

All of that, and a lot of other things changed on May 25 of this year, the day George Floyd was killed. What followed was a cultural uprising call-ing for police reform and racial equal-ity. As a result, a new, louder call for Washington to change its name arose.

The difference this time around was that it was no longer a minority of people wanting the team to change its name. Whereas before, some may

have thought the team should change its name, but never vocalized it. Now however, perhaps bolstered by the rise of social unrest, those people are instead using their voices for change.

Not to be a debbie-downer on the great things the social movement has been able to accomplish thus far, but I don’t believe Snyder would have budged on the nickname had it not been for good ole’ capitalism forcing his hand.

On July 2, FedEx, who signed a 27-year, $205 million deal to sponsor the team’s stadium back in 1998, told Snyder that it wanted the team name changed, and that if it wasn’t changed before the 2021 season, the shipping company would remove all its sig-nage from the stadium. Amazon then came out a few days later and said that it would stop selling “Redskins” merchandise on its website. This

sentiment was then echoed by both Walmart and Target.

For all of the faults of capital-ism, the strongest argument for it was always that the market corrects itself within the system. We’ve seen the topic of capitalism used to fuel presidential campaigns and lead to economic movements. We’ve seen it provide new businesses as they replace old, closed ones. We’ve seen capitalism spark innovations in the private sector and create new indus-tries when old ways of life die. And now, mixed with just a touch of social outcry, it seems capitalism has once again caused a real change in our nation’s capital.

Jarrod Mills is a staff writer at the

Times-Tribune. You can contact him at jmills@thetimestribune.com.

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As I said, strike three. I’m out.

Political discourse, which is a nebulous action that easily impli-cated itself into my scheme, was too impor-tant to scoff at for a three-day stint, most so during three days these days. It was admittedly a bit melodramatic to worry about the state of the world after not observing the TV news coverage of it for such a brief period. Still, I could not overcome the thought that when times

are so wackadoo, and are as such in so many diverse yet connected strands of the fabric of life, there is a duty (call it patriotic if you will) to stay informed. Maybe with the combination of pervasive negative news coupled to the speed of 2020 communications that duty is heightened. I’m frustrated by it—the television news that finds no objectivity, or where “if it bleeds it leads”—as we all may be if we’re engaged viewers. Political dis-course should result from the engagement.

The connections between a secured soci-ety and its ability and willingness to embrace and activate political dis-course are solid. Without the citizenry’s intel-lect, the political body’s security wanes. Think about the most despot-ic, oppressive leaders and regimes through-out time. Discourse was eschewed in the streets, and downright ille-gal in many examples. We cannot afford, not even for the weekend, to disembark from learn-ing, understanding, and

then discoursing—it’s a word, I looked it up—meaning discussing, debating, and honing our positions. When we tune out, or go silent….

Ed is a professor of cybersecurity, an attorney, and a trained ethicist. Reach him at edzugeresq@gmail.com.

ZUGER: Discourse is importantCONTINUED FROM PAGE 4

MILLS: Capitalism played a role in real change in our nation’s capital againCONTINUED FROM PAGE 4