Simon Moya-Smith is an enrolled citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation and a Chicano writer and journalist. His new book, “Your Spirit Animal is a Jackass,” published by the University of Minnesota Press, will be available in 2020.
Posted on 02/08/2021 9:43:15 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Racism is always ugly, but it's even uglier when it’s welcomed on a national stage. And, make no mistake, the Kansas City football team's name is racist.
The Kansas City Chiefs — who are playing the Tampa Bay Buccaneers during Super Bowl LV on Sunday — are just delaying the inevitable. They will eventually drop their name.
They will be forced to do away with the dehumanization and commodification of Native Americans that are their name and logo and beloved team traditions. It will happen.
They’re just being stubborn right now and refusing to simply ride the massive wave of change occurring at this moment in this country.
We’ve already seen this story play out; so have they. They’ve simply chosen the more difficult path.
There was, after all, once another professional football team with a racist, nasty name — this one, defined by the dictionary as a slur against Indigenous peoples. The team hails from Washington, D.C..
Racism is always ugly, but it seems to get even uglier when it’s welcomed on a national stage like the Super Bowl. How much longer do we Natives have to be subjected to this shame? When we look back on this brutal epoch, both teams and their intransigence will stand as a monument to pigheadedness and denial during a time of growing racial justice in the U.S.
No one really knows how long it will take for the Kansas City Chiefs to get with the times and to see what they’re doing enables racist behavior against Natives — a demographic that already faces evil hatred as it is, and all too frequently. But it is inevitable that they will change their name. As the owner of the Washington Football Team already learned: Never say “NEVER.”
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Simon Moya-Smith is an enrolled citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation and a Chicano writer and journalist. His new book, “Your Spirit Animal is a Jackass,” published by the University of Minnesota Press, will be available in 2020.
Constant pushing. Seeking total submission.
Sadly, it’s working.
How, squaw!
8^)
Is there anything more Racist than drivel from a Presstitute??
Majority of NFL players are black.
“...refusing to simply ride the massive wave of change occurring at this moment in this country.”
Well, then tell me, why is the phrase “Get Woke, Go Broke” in common parlance these days? What an utter twit of a person.
Mr Soy Boy assumes that Native Americans don’t want the name “Chiefs” to be used.
But the NFL is attacked by woke-tards like him, so perhaps this is not a bad thing.
Something tells me this guy has never actually played football and might have been playing tea party with all his little dolls instead
Reading this stupid article you can sense the pure fear on the part of the author that the Chiefs might stick with their name. There is no sense or reason in the thing. There is just the attempt to bludgeon another to do as commanded.
The Kansas City C-Words.
Yeah. That has a nice ring to it.
I was wondering when some mentally incompetent fool would complain about the “Chiefs.” But Tampa Bay isn’t home free. It’s only a matter of time until someone looks up “Bucaneers” and realizes that some pirates were barbary pirates, or OTTOMAN pirates!!! OOOOO! Muslim alert!
So, when does some mentally distorted idiot start complaining about Tampa Bay and their “islamophobic” name?
How does one deal with insanity? There is no rational way to deal with it.
That didnt take long,suprised it wasnt brought up last night @1/2 time. Would have fit in with the crap show by whoever those AH’s were/are ?
I suspect that the LBGT community will soon be demanding that the Green Bay “Packers” change their name, arguing that it’s offensive to its male-on-male members.
Forget it, the Chiefs and the NFL will fold like a quesadilla. I never thought the Redskins would have given in but here we are. It’s hamstrung them so much that they cannot even come up with a real name for their team beyond the lame Washington Football Team.
Don’t make me hop on Warpaint and go give this idiot a Tomahawk chop in my Headdress.
I thought the Chiefs’ name was an homage to American city firemen and policemen. To all the SJW race hystlers: It takes one to know one.
Moya-Smith?
What? He kept his maiden name after marrying some guy named Smith?
Why isn’t Buccaneer racist against pirates?
An enrolled Chicano citizen? This poser is trying wayyyy too hard. My wife was born and raised on the Crow Agency and would love to discus “credentials” with this guy.
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