Posted on 09/10/2020 3:44:22 AM PDT by Libloather
Mission, Kansas - Kansas City Chiefs fans who file into Arrowhead Stadium Thursday evening for a masked and socially distanced start to the NFL season won't be wearing headdresses or face paint amid a nationwide push for racial justice following the police-custody death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. The Chiefs will be taking on the Houston Texans.
The move by the reigning Super Bowl champions has pleased Native Americans as a good first step but frustrated some of the 17,000 fans who will be in the stands as the team becomes the first to take the field in front of a crowd - albeit a smaller than normal - during the coronavirus pandemic. Enforcing the new restrictions also comes as the team tries to require masks, which has proven challenging at some public practices. That allows space for social distancing.
NFL teams with Native American mascots are facing increased scrutiny after the team in Washington chose to drop Redskins as its nickname after a long and often contentious dialogue with fans and the public. The Chiefs also announced last month that the team was discussing the future of its tomahawk chop celebration amid complaints that it's racist.
Students at nearby Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kansas, are among those who demanded changes.
"Using this mascot and having this fan base of predominantly white people wearing face paint and headdresses and doing the tomahawk chop, and it energizes them and gives them this sense of power, and then thinking there is nothing wrong with doing that is just mind boggling to me," said William Wilkinson, Haskell's former University Student Government Association president.
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Brown indigenous people, who are really being honored by being chosen as the team’s standard, are being erased.
White indigenous people, the Vikings, will presumably remain as a team icon.
Double standard? This is like nuking Aunt Jemima, whose descendants were not happy with that erasure. Totally stupid own goal by the SJWs, who somehow feel smug about the result.
I wish an NFL team being pushed to re-brand would thumb their nose at the whole thing and call themselves the Fighting Whities.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fighting_Whites
“After that....the whole system is shaky.”
It used to be that when you met someone you did not know, were unfamiliar with, and may not have a lot in common with, you could always talk about two things to begin to establish some rapport: The weather and sports.
Sports was great for that. I remember people who were in sales, 20 years ago or so, who didn’t particularly like sports, but kept up with the headlines just for that reason.
That’s gone now, they’ve ruined it. I don’t think there are many traditional fans left, especially people under 40 years old.
If it were not for gambling and fantasy sports, I bet their viewership would be less than half of what it is now.
Yeah looks like it’s gonna get burnt down in an upcoming protest. With it’s insurance all paid up
First game of the NFL season is tonight. Anyone care?
Nope.
And I used to live for pro football. Since 1969.
Not for years. And I grew up watching football with my dad.
Sigh.
What is this NFL thing?
Pretty soon, no American will know what the Hell an Indian is...
I have been an NFL fan since 1960. I just canceled my NFL Sunday Ticket. I will not watch MLB, NHL, or NBA either.
Professional sports have all transformed into political propaganda machines. SCREW THEM ALL!!!
CNN plays with alternative history by airing altered Biden family photo
Guess which logo CNN airbrushed out...
“The Chiefs also announced last month that the team was discussing the future of its tomahawk chop celebration amid complaints that it’s racist.”
They can have their BS policies and not allow the face painted and headdress wearing folks, but when there are thousands of Chiefs fans in the stadium, there’s no way they’ll stop them from doing the chop.
They can stuff it...
How does wearing headdresses and face paint insult anybody? It’s a fogging COMPLIMENT! From a Chiefs fan.
It’s the Chiefs vs Texans at Kansas Shi**y.
Divide and Conquer..
Local news this morning,here in Pittsburgh,PA. stated that ticket sales for this game are way down.
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