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Descendants of John Two Guns White Calf, a Native American chief who inspired the now-retired logo of the Washington Commanders football team (previously known as the Redskins), have called for his return to NFL events.
“The fans want him back and we want him back,” Thomas White Calf, a great nephew of the celebrated early-20th-century Blackfeet tribe leader, told Fox News last week.
“Our ancestor was the most famous and most photographed native in history,” he added, speaking on the phone alongside his mother, Delphine White Calf. “I’m proud of him. The Blackfeet are proud of him.”
The conservative news network interviewed the family after they met Montana Senator Steve Daines – a vocal critic of the 2020 decision to rebrand the franchise. The lawmaker brought up what he believes to be a historic wrong in Congress and in the media on multiple occasions.
“Make no mistake, this logo was inspired and envisioned … as a tribute to Native Americans. It is not a caricature. It is a depiction of pride and strength. Of courage and honor,” he said at a Senate subcommittee hearing in May.
Blackie Wetzel, another Blackfeet tribal leader, is credited for creating the logo in 1971. The next year, the Washington Redskins NFL franchise adopted it.
Both the name and the mascot were retired in 2020, against the backdrop of racial protest following the death of George Floyd. Major investors and shareholders put pressure on the team’s top sponsors, claiming that the branding promoted negative stereotypes about Native Americans.
The management caved in, though the Redskins were renamed as the Commanders only two years later.
A spokesman for the team told Fox News that it is collaborating with Senator Daines “to honor the legacy of our team’s heritage and the Native American community,” but had no intention of reviving the old logo.
The news outlet pinned the blame for the naming controversy on the non-profit National Congress of American Indians. Among other things, it seeks to eradicate what it perceives as inappropriate mascots in sports and complained against the Redskins in 2013 in a 29-page report on the issue.
“Today’s harmful ‘Indian’ mascots are very much an extension of the commercialization of race such as black face and African-American stereotypes,” the document claimed.
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https://www.rt.com/news/604280-nfl-native-chief-mascot/
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Aunt Jemima's kin didn't like her erased either. She was a real person!
Since when is there something wrong with a plump black woman!
It’s as if, the KKK DNC are using social justice as an excuse to re-segregate American society under the guise of compassion and tolerance. Next thing they are gonna want is separate water fountains and separate entrances to restaraunts. And a separate place in restaurants for black customers. So loving and compassionate. Let’s have separate schools for black and white kids also why stop?
Too late. This happened years ago.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardvedder/2018/11/15/racial-segregation-on-american-campuses-a-widespread-phenomenon/
Actually, it never stopped.
I’ve noticed. There was also a thing about blind auditions for music. Due to perceptions about different races playing classical music, auditions were behind curtains. So only the music and playing could be judged. The KKK Liberals said that was racist and sued to end the practice. Issue is, Asian and Black instrumentalists fought for the practice of blind auditions.
The liberals who want it stopped, are not musicians.
And I quit buying their products. This pearl name is not fooling anyone. They fired her because she's black. I was incensed. Same with Uncle Ben. They fired the black guy, so I stopped buying things I regularly purchased for 50 years.
I won't watch HGTV shows that were featured in a black history month commercial where their black stars let us know they wanted only black viewers. Whites not welcome. (Married to real estate and 100 day new house are 2 of them)
Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben were beloved by generations! The left's racism erased them, we loved them!
Exactly.
How bout we listen to the Actual voice of reason.
https://youtu.be/I3cGfrExozQ?si=DV7p5TrNbG5sROr-
Yes! Amongst my favorite quotes/exchanges.
She actually wasn't plump. The picture they used to depict her was thought to be appropriate for the time. Her real name was Nancy Green. Her story is wonderful. The people who, in the end, stole her identity so to speak and rebranded her recipe for their own gain are no different then the parasites of today caah.org/women-in-history/nancy-green/
I do not know of a single, fellow American Indian that had an issue with the Redskins name or logo.
The supposed outrage was all driven by white liberals and a few useful idiots within the Indian community.
It’s always white liberals being offended on others behalf. I respect Florida State and the Seminole tribe of Florida for telling these woketards to get bent when they went after them and their mascot Chief Ocesola.
Sounds similar to what happened to the Speedy Gonzales cartoons.
Don’t you love how minorities aren’t given a voice by the woke mob , and are instead treated like children, for their own good.
The irony is... while the teams had the mascots, the tribes actually had some degree of power and influence over them. Once the team drops it, they have no reason to give the tribes a second thought anymore.
Where were they a few years ago when Goodell decided to do this?!!
that profile of an Indian really is powerful. They are beautiful strong people. Like Japanese. Strong roots.