Letters to the Editor
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The irony in all of this
is that whether you call the native (meaning migrated here like the white man but sooner than he did) people of the North American, Native Americans or Indians. It is all the same. A white man thought he landed elsewhere so they got called Indians. Then another white man gets his name on the continent (Amerigo Vespucci) so they're native 'Americans'.
As a Indians fan, I would never want the name changed. I'd miss Chief Wahoo too if he went. I get why people are offended, but I hardly think that fans painted like Wahoo are racist.
You know the deadliest thing that Europeans unleashed on the native cultures... small pox and other diseases. Only after those had wiped everyone out where the Europeans so easily able to conquer the joint.
While we are at it, lets get rid of the 'Fighting Irish' too and Lucky Charms cereal.
Come on people, the mascot isn't creating racists and has only one value and meaning today: It represents a baseball team. Just like fighting irish represent a college, and spartans roam the land endlessly.