Letters to the Editor
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Warriors
This sounds like a case where a white guy believes he's in a position to point out to native Americans, the vast majority whom who are smart enough and hence probably couldn't be bothered by a bunch of moronic white yahoos in red face, that they ought to be offended. Preferably deeply offended.
You could probably if you had enough dinero fly some authentic Zulu's in to do a traditional war dance at a Warrior's game (the Zulus were warriors who kicked butt before getting their butt kicked eventually) all decked out in traditional African regalia with spears and shields etc. and they wouldn't in the least be ashamed. Why should they be? Some sports fans watch too much Oprah and Ellen.
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In keeping with the sports theme...
Screw the American Indians and their hurt feelings. They had homefield advantage and still lost ;)
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Wow, I just read every post...
How about a little part missing from the feather, like the Soiux did. Or half mass. Renaming to: The Cleveland Tribe sounds good.
There's been tribes all over the world. And in Iraq. Who are we to tell them not to be tribes. I hope I'm not the pseudo-republicans that JamieO is talking about. I was quoting satire -G.Carlin. I gotta work on that. I don't think these mascots honor American Indians. I think there is more than one way to look at the minstrel show. Was Elvis a thief or a God? He was an inchworm of soul into western civilization. I think the impulse to lean away from modern soulless consumer life is honorable.
And yes Mr. Kaufmann, people can be that clueless. I was when I was a child. I made a whole comic book staring Chief Wahoo. When I was a teenager camping at Mohican, I had a shirt artist draw Chief Wahoo surfing whith a beer, joint and peace necklace. Which I fished out today and destroyed. I was completely obvlious. Maybe I still am to a lesser degree. I don't want to be. I just, like a lot of Clev, harbor pride for something that has little to do with me, blood-wise. But the land is what connects me. And myth and history.
Maybe I'm talking about something other than Chief Wahoo but the point is there is something greater underneath the surface that drives the pride. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe it's just the youth drunk on cultural stereotypes of male violence.
The word Indian is from the word Indios- in God.
Native wisdom informs my everyday life. And your life.
Native wisdom and the feminine priciple will save the planet.
I just wonder how much Indians had to do with with the invention of baseball. Considering the mound, dimensions and arrival time.
I probably don't know what I'm talking about. I am just a mixed-up waisuchi who's alienated for no good reason. I now reject Chief Wahoo. Have for the past few years.
Lose the logo.
Fascinatined,
Bleeding Heart
P.S.
Why do the worst posts always
stick in my craw? To all you
winners, you will find out
what all that genocide for
private property means in the
afterlife.
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What's the problem?
Maybe I'm just not enough of a football fan, or maybe it's that I'm fortunate in my choice of sports — sock color just doesn't provoke the same sort of blinkered idiocy as skin color seems to. (Maybe it should — people might end up a teensy bit more sympathetic toward one another.)
But seriously, in a sport where teams are renamed and even move wholesale from one city to the next, how much can "brand loyalty" really matter? Change these ridiculous names over the winter — this winter — and in 2 years nobody will care and in 10 barely even remember. If you want to preserve some sort of "real" local tradition, call them the Cleveland Algonquins or Washington Chinooks or what have you, but honestly you could just as easily go with anything — Longshoremen, Anglers, Webinars, Turnips, Capital Vectors... For crying out loud, there's a major-league baseball team whose name is just a letter. This isn't War and Peace, here. What's the problem?