We name teams for something we admire. That’s why we have Tigers, Lions, Bears, and the like. They’re intended to put the other teams on alert.
So when we name a team the Indians, it means we’e admiring them.
Remember the bozoids who printed up T-shirts for a fictional team called the Whiteboys? The idea was to show us how hurtful these names are. White folk ought the shirts and laughed.
If the Cleveland Indians were smart, they’d get a local tribe to help them design the NEW Chief Wahoo. (Wahoo Jr.?)
Good post!
One of the under appreciated ‘issues’ I see in society today is an inability to laugh at ourselves.
We’re a nation of tight a$$es!