I say hell no. Texas has had the Rangers way too long and they are part of our heritage and who we are.
This shi_ has got to stop.
Major League Baseball’s Texas Rangers should change their team name because of its ties to brutality and racism, a Chicago Tribune columnist argued Thursday.Steve Chapman wrote that the Rangers were “revered†in Texas but “the legends omit a lot of the reality.†Chapman cites the book “Cult of Glory: The Bold and Brutal History of the Texas Rangers†by Doug J. Swanson as the main reason for the organization to change the name.
“They burned peasant villages and slaughtered innocents,†Swanson wrote in the book. “They committed war crimes. Their murders of Mexicans and Mexican Americans made them as feared on the border as the Ku Klux Klan in the South.â€
Chapman added: “A century ago, during the fighting that took place along the border during the Mexican Revolution, blood flowed like the Rio Grande."
According to Swanson’s book, “The terms ‘death squads’ and ‘ethnic cleansing’ would not enter common usage for another sixty years or so but that was what the Rangers were and what they did.â€
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/mlb-texas-rangers-pressure-change-name-scrutiny-symbols-historical-figures
