Clarence Page: Washington’s slur is an easy call, but ‘Blackhawks’ has value

Now that Washington’s NFL team has announced its “retirement” of the racial slur that has been its brand name since 1933, I am tempted to gloat a little.

I feel as if I have earned it. But I didn’t have much chance to do so before new and thornier questions rose up: What about the Chicago Blackhawks?

And the Cleveland Indians, the Atlanta Braves and the Kansas City Chiefs?

Here we go again. I put up with national mockery-by-internet-meme