Instead they chose Chief Wahoo, a sort of Native American "Tillie," Coney Island's early 20th century symbol of the pure joy and unbridled enthusiasm.
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Posted on 09/23/2017 7:33:38 AM PDT by raccoonradio
There are racist emblems. Chief Wahoo isn’t one of them.
“Everything about the Indians is awesome except their very racist logo,” proclaimed a USA Today headline last Monday. Cleveland’s baseball team was at that point 18 victories into an amazing winning streak that would stretch to 22 — an American League record, and the longest winning streak in major league baseball in more than a century. But baseball writer Ted Berg devoted only a few sentences to the Indians’ brilliant performance before moving to his main subject: “the extremely racist logo they insist on wearing on their caps.”
On any list of knee-jerk PC verities, the “obvious” racism of Chief Wahoo — the cartoon character that has been the Indians logo for seven decades — would be near the top. I get why people make that claim, but I’m going to argue that they’re wrong. Chief Wahoo is not in any way an emblem of bigotry or racial contempt. And those who censoriously insist it is are unwittingly downplaying the ugliness of genuinely racist images.
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Go Tribe!
FWIW the wild semi-invasive shrub called Burning Bush which gets brilliant red leaves in late autumn was called “wahoo” by the Native Americans.
It’s stems and leaves can be boiled for use as a very effective laxative.
Drink some and assume the position and you’ll go “WAHOO”!
Is very bad to steal Jobu’s rum. Is very bad.
“I say f*** you Jobu, I do it myself!”
Instead they chose Chief Wahoo, a sort of Native American "Tillie," Coney Island's early 20th century symbol of the pure joy and unbridled enthusiasm.
If they were racist they wouldn’t have an Indian on their logo.
no more racist than dallas cowboys ... imagine if the two ever played each other, it would be like ..............
And watch everybody in CLE wear the Wahoo logo just to piss off the cultural mandarins.
Trust me, nobody here in The LAND sees Chief Wahoo as anything other than a figure of endearment. the only cranks who differ are a few PC flunkies from the UCC who have their HQ in the next block.
They have my attention. Hope they keep Francona on the dime.
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