In the past week we’ve seen renewed demands to tear down Confederate monuments and to rename sites and products that uphold racist logics. And just a few days ago the Texas Rangers found themselves implicated, with columnists and fans now debating whether the baseball team should be named after a police force with a documented history of racial violence.
Today on “What’s the Word,” Adam Schuster reviews the history of the Rangers as a police force, its deeply troubling past, as well as the contemporary politics of branding and naming.
