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Here's what King wrote on September 30:
And to answer a question I've gotten in a few e-mails, yes, I've decided to stop using the Washington football team's racist nickname. Call me self-righteous if you want. I just can't stand to type it anymore.
The newspaper here in Portland, The Oregonian made the same move several years ago, and they've stopped using similar nicknames, like the Cleveland baseball team's nickname, though I think they still call Notre Dame "The Fighting People From the British Isles Who Aren't Actually British."
