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Originally Posted by Joshchisox08
Maybe, just maybe, that is where he earned his nickname. And I have seen some of his signatures as well where someone else earlier in the thread pointed out that he signed often with his nickname included. If he accepted it which he must of based off of his signatures I don't see the issue.
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Wait, this is worse. Because he was racist and accepted his obviously racial nickname you are saying we should have no issue with it?
We know better now. Our society has a better sense of racial equality now than we did in 1910. What was acceptable then is not acceptable now.
Because a baseball team in Atlanta had an offensive name does not inversely justify anything. And because Clarke was fine with his own nickname does not make it okay. He was wrong. Baseball was wrong. Our society was wrong then. It is okay to discuss that and to study the role of race in baseball at the turn of the 20th century...but we don't have to perpetuate the racism by continuing to use his nickname as an identifier.