Posted on 02/12/2023 12:22:17 PM PST by Golden Eagle
“People think they’re honoring us with these mascots and logos, but they’re mocking us,” complained Michael Spears, an actor from a South Dakota tribe, as leftists take the opportunity of the upcoming Super Bowl between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Kansas City Chiefs to continue their practice of using sports — as they use everything else that they can — to advance their narrative that our society is full of oppressors and the oppressed.
The name “Chiefs” was chosen by Kansas City’s team owner, Lamar Hunt, after the team moved there from Dallas — where they were the Texans in the old American Football League. The name was picked after it proved quite popular in a pick-the-name contest. In fact the Kansas City Chiefs played in the very first Super Bowl in January 1967, losing to the Green Bay Packers, and it was Hunt who first used the term “Super Bowl” to refer to the pro football championship game.
“These images create the opportunity for white people to appropriate our culture,” Spears said. “Imagery is storytelling and we need to tell our own stories.”
Apparently, Spears thinks only American Indians who think as he does should be able to tell their “story.” Activists who decry the name Chiefs — just as they opposed the name “Redskins,” formerly used by the Washington Commanders NFL franchise and countless other sports teams across the country — have appointed themselves to speak for all people of indigenous ancestry. This same sentiment is echoed by Gaylene Crouser, executive director of the Kansas City Indian Center, who is a member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. “The [Kansas City] team has worked hard to put out the illusion that they work with tribes because they do work with a few tribal members.”
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chief is a Scottish term
I oppose the term democRAT. It should be mass murder scum bag.
Change the name to the Kansas City Oppressors.
The NFL needs some honesty in labeling—the teams could be called the Kansas City Thugs or the San Francisco Rapists.
Leave the poor Native Americans out of it.
;-)
We have Fire Chiefs in the Fire Dept.
No one is stopping you from telling your stories. Meanwhile, STFU about the Chiefs!
This argument simply makes no sense.
Why would you wear the name and image of something into battle, albeit sports competition, unless you had great admiration for that entity? You wouldn't, you would use it as a pejorative, or something to be fought AGAINST, instead.
Forcing the removal of the name "Chiefs" from anywhere that is glorifying it, will only more quickly lead to it no longer being something to potentially admire.
Asia calling!
Complete BS by lunatic activists. The vast majority of Native Americans have no problems with the Chiefs and the team works very closely with Native American groups to make sure they get things right. This is all woke idiocy by people desperate to be offended by anything and everything.
This is absurd.
This is absurd.
The Super Socialist Bowl.
WOKE commercials, WOKE halftime show, and WOKE “ national anthems “.
With brief interruptions for a football game.
San Francisco Homeless...
All your thought belong to us ...
Idiots, all of them. The Kansas City Chiefs were named for “Chief” Bartle, the Mayor of Kansas City. He came by that nickname for his involvement in the Boy Scouts. He was the organizer and leader of an Boy Scout Adult honorary organization known a the Tribe of Mic O See. The Kansas City Arrowhead logo and their colors Red and White came from the Boy Scout honor organization, the Order of the Arrow. Both of these organizations respected and honored all Native Americans.
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