Opinion | Simon Moya-Smith: The Kansas City Chiefs will play the San Francisco 49ers in Miami on Sunday, accompanied by fans in headdresses and warpaint performing tomahawk chops. - NBCNewsTHINK
Just try, though, to explain that to a Chiefs fan. I did, at a sports bar by me after the Chiefs’ victory on Jan 19. “But ‘Chiefs,’ the team name, isn’t racist,” the fan said to me. “It’s not like the Redskins.”
“How can you see me, or any other Native for that matter, as a human being,” I added, “if sports and Hollywood continue to perpetuate the half-naked, Tonto-talking angry Indian stereotype?” The man didn’t change his mind, or even seem to care. He said he’ll still remain devoted to “his team.”
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