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An ESPN host wore a t-shirt on air mocking the Cleveland Indians' controversial logo
Business Insider ^ | 04/07/2016 | Cork Gaines

Posted on 04/08/2016 5:38:19 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen

ESPN host Bomani Jones wore a "Caucasians" t-shirt mocking the Cleveland Indians' "Chief Wahoo" logo during the "Mike & Mike" show on Thursday.

The shirt includes the word "Caucasians" in the Indians' font, with a character based on "Chief Wahoo" that has white skin (instead of red), a basic nose (instead of a large, hooked nose), blonde hair (instead of dark hair parted, and held down by a head band), and a dollar sign (instead of a feather).

Here are the two logos side-by-side:

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TOPICS: Sports
KEYWORDS: 2016election; americanleague; baseball; bomanijones; chiefwahoo; cleveland; clevelandindians; clickbait; demagogicparty; election2016; espn; indians; johnkasich; memebuilding; mlb; nationalleague; ohio; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills
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To: camle
it is not about the logo - it’s about being forced to change their logo to something the ‘progressives’ approve of. its about power. raw power.

YES!!!

The socialist racists want to force you (yes, YOU personally) to bow and grovel before them. Nothing less.

21 posted on 04/08/2016 5:58:19 AM PDT by NorthMountain (A plague o' both your houses.)
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To: freedumb2003
Go the rest of the way and create one called the Cleveland “N...ers” with a dark brown mascot.

Yeah I want to see a white guest were such a shirt and see what the reaction is.

22 posted on 04/08/2016 5:58:32 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Let us now try liberty.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Here’s a thought - turn off ESPN. Seriously what a waste of time watching some dumb asses sit around and talk about other dumb asses.


23 posted on 04/08/2016 5:59:18 AM PDT by KSCITYBOY
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To: Kid Shelleen
I'm going to piss them off by NOT being offended.

24 posted on 04/08/2016 5:59:45 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: NorthMountain

funny how they object to the church’s preaching because they view that as forcing their views on everybody else, when they do the same thing, if not worse - their’s isn’t voluntary


25 posted on 04/08/2016 6:00:08 AM PDT by camle (keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
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To: Kid Shelleen

26 posted on 04/08/2016 6:02:19 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it." --Samuel Clemens)
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To: Rummyfan

so much for independent journalism...integrity or advocacy..you decide


27 posted on 04/08/2016 6:02:44 AM PDT by camle (keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
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To: Kid Shelleen
An ESPN host...
Quit watching ESPN 10+ years ago. Will only watch if forced to do so like yesterday's Masters coverage.
28 posted on 04/08/2016 6:03:59 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: Former Proud Canadian
Available as a hoodie!


29 posted on 04/08/2016 6:04:12 AM PDT by katana (Just my opinion)
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To: Kid Shelleen
a basic nose (instead of a large, hooked nose),

Who is this writer to decide which nose is basic and which nose is large? Racist! Racist!

30 posted on 04/08/2016 6:04:33 AM PDT by eartrumpet
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To: cowboyway
My hometown's h.s. mascot is the Mountaineers, Mounties for short. When I first moved here I couldn't believe they had a corn cob pipe in his mouth. Smoking!!

Then I learned he used to have a jug of moonshine and a rifle.

Still think it's a pretty cool mascot.

31 posted on 04/08/2016 6:08:18 AM PDT by To Hell With Poverty (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. ~ JFK ~)
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To: MNnice
The dollar bill replacing the feather is the giveaway that this idiot’s complaint is really about capitalism and not racism. Either that or all black activists are also communists, which is probable.

Of course the Caucasians get a dollar sign, NOT an EBT card...

32 posted on 04/08/2016 6:12:03 AM PDT by To Hell With Poverty (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. ~ JFK ~)
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To: KSCITYBOY
>> turn off ESPN. <<<
One of the reasons I cut the cord and refuse to listen to ESPN radio.
33 posted on 04/08/2016 6:13:25 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: katana

If you scalped them at the GOP convention in Cleveland this year I bet you would make a killing.


34 posted on 04/08/2016 6:16:38 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: cowboyway
Wait, leprechauns are not even human, so can they be Caucasian?
35 posted on 04/08/2016 6:19:21 AM PDT by Stingray51
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To: Kid Shelleen

Outside of retards who actually watches or listens to ESPN??


36 posted on 04/08/2016 6:20:51 AM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be banned and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: To Hell With Poverty
I miss the old "Mountain Dew" logos and artwork:


37 posted on 04/08/2016 6:23:50 AM PDT by NorthMountain (A plague o' both your houses.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Ironically, my Choctaw grandmother pulled for every team in every sport that had an Indian mascot . . . except for Cleveland. She said the mascot doesn’t even look like an Indian. Said she: “He looks like a Jap.” LOL!


38 posted on 04/08/2016 6:28:34 AM PDT by oldplayer
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To: Stingray51
Wait, leprechauns are not even human, so can they be Caucasian?

What! Oh no, can't be true .... next you'll say there's no Santa.

39 posted on 04/08/2016 6:29:33 AM PDT by Boston Blackie
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
Wanna hurt ESPN? **** Monday Night Football. Thanks Kid Shelleen.

40 posted on 04/08/2016 6:33:47 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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