Cue death threats.
Cue Dan Synder and some AstroTurf groups to continue to defend the Redskins name.
Cleveland still has a professional baseball team?
Right decision, of course, but why wait a year? That will only bring more attention to the controversy and heighten tensions. Bite the bullet and get it over with.
Trump: I am so glad that it is gone. I want The Caucasian logo on all of the baseball teams. The game belongs to us.
After lengthy discussions between team owner Paul Dolan and MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred, the Indians are taking the extraordinary step of shelving the big-toothed, smiling, red-faced caricature
Translation:
The owner wants to shop his team around to cities that are willing to beg for the privilege of filling his pockets, and the MLB Commissioner agreed to support a move.
Meanwhile, the AM-radio bigmouths in Ohio will blame Clinton and “that black guy” for screeching about racism every time a white person tries to honor a group: “We build monuments to the brave men who fought for their side in war and they call us racists. We honor the noble red-skinned savages and they call us racists…”
Too many immigrants from Africa, Hispanica, and other nations are taking jobs from Americans.
Yeah but nothing comes close to what those gd Europeans did to them
Actually a very good one.
Just sayin’… : - }
Ah, gotcha. I prefer that outcome as well.
However, the American League team will continue to wear the Wahoo logo on its uniform sleeves and caps in 2018, and the club will still sell merchandise featuring the mascot in Northeast Ohio. The team must maintain a retail presence so that MLB and the Indians can keep ownership of the trademark.
I’m not clear if this means the selling of merchandise in Northeast Ohio featuring the racist caricature, I mean “mascot,” will end in 2019, or whether they will keep offering that merchandise NE Ohio beyond 2018 “so that MLB and the Indians can keep ownership of the trademark.”
And if so, is the intention there to block others from selling merchandise with the image on it as it continues to be phased out as a symbol for the team, after which they plan to drop those sales entirely (hoping that by then there will be little demand for such merchandise from others), or is the intention to continue selling the racist “Chief Wahoo” merchandise in NE Ohio indefinitely?
You are right, of course. This is the main reason, but really there’s so many, why I hate professional sports.
The polarizing mascot is coming off the team’s jersey sleeves and caps starting in the 2019 season, a move that will end Chief Wahoo’s presence on the field but may not completely silence those who deem it racist.
Because it is racist and causes actual harm! (American Psychological Association)
Research has shown that the continued use of American Indian mascots, symbols, images and personalities has a negative effect on not only American Indian students but all students by:
Undermining the educational experiences of members of all communities-especially those who have had little or no contact with indigenous peoples. The symbols, images and mascots teach non-Indian children that it’s acceptable to participate in culturally abusive behavior and perpetuate inaccurate misconceptions about American Indian culture. Establishes an unwelcome and often times hostile learning environment for American Indian students that affirms negative images/stereotypes that are promoted in mainstream society.
According to Stephanie Fryberg, PhD, University of Arizona, this appears to have a negative impact on the self-esteem of American Indian children, “American Indian mascots are harmful not only because they are often negative, but because they remind American Indians of the limited ways in which others see them. This in turn restricts the number of ways American Indians can see themselves.”
“We know from the literature that oppression, covert and overt racism, and perceived racism can have serious negative consequences for the mental health of American Indian and Alaska native people. The discontinued use of American Indian mascots is a gesture to show that this kind of racism toward and the disrespect of, all people in our country and in the larger global context, will not be tolerated,” said Lisa Thomas, PhD, APA Committee on Ethnic and Minority Affairs