InterestingEvery Native sports mascot that has been removed from the Fighting Sioux to the Washington Redskins, has been removed at the demand of white liberals pushing to 'avenge' those poor natives who were not allegedly smart enough to know they were being offended.
The wokesters probably believe they are doing good by the tribes on this issue. The wokesters get to feel good about themselves when they do this
But stories like these, were the left believe they are virtuous by taking trivial actions on behalf of others, remind me of this quote from CW Lewis
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under of robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber barons cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some points be satiated; but those who torment us for their own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
Every Native sports mascot that has been removed from the Fighting Sioux to the Washington Redskins, has been removed at the demand of white liberals pushing to 'avenge' those poor natives who were not allegedly smart enough to know they were being offended.So why did KC get to keep it's "Chiefs" Moniker, but Washington lost the Redskins? I am asking a serious question.
Sure, they can always find someone who has been well indoctrinated to prop up as a poster child, but the power behind the campaign likely is not from the group allegedly offended.
So why did KC get to keep it's "Chiefs" Moniker, but Washington lost the Redskins? I am asking a serious question.
So why did KC get to keep it's "Chiefs" Moniker, but Washington lost the Redskins? I am asking a serious question.I really couldn't say. The UND "Fighting Sioux" logo was designed by an American Indian, Bennett Brien, and had the approval of the Spirit Lake tribal Elders, and the 'fighting' part of the nickname was no slur for a warrior people.
Blackie Wetzel was a Blackfeet tribal chairman and, for a time, the president of the National Congress of American Indians, an influential position in which he worked toward securing housing and job training for Native Americans.Source: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/dec/07/a-native-american-designed-washingtons-logo-now-his-family-want-it-back (https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/dec/07/a-native-american-designed-washingtons-logo-now-his-family-want-it-back)
The logo was a composite of portraits of a Blackfeet chief named White Calf (who was marketed to wealthy tourists of Glacier National Park as Two Guns White Calf). Blackie considered the logo a sort of “unification symbol” among Native Americans.