For years now, abounding accept apprenticed the Cleveland Indians to bead the Chief Wahoo logo. The amulet depicts a racist burlesque of Native Americans, and is acutely abhorrent to abounding Native American groups.
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While the aggregation has confused abroad from Chief Wahoo as its primary logo, he hasn't gone abroad completely. It's still abundantly accessible to aces up commodity with the amulet advanced and center.
In adjustment to point out the racism to those still in denial, Shelf Life Clothing created the "Caucasians tee," a shirt that parodies the Indians logo, but replaces the Native America with a average of a white person. Those shirts accept existed for some time, but were advance into the civic spotlight Thursday.
That's Bomani Jones of ESPN cutting a Cleveland Caucasians shirt on the network. He anon began trending on Twitter, as abounding watching had able opinions about the T-shirt. Not surprisingly, Jones was reportedly told to awning up the shirt afterwards some at ESPN "freaked out," according to TMZ. Jones appeared afterwards on the affairs with his hoodie hardly ambiguous up, but bodies at home could still accomplish out the logo.
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If you're sitting at home thinking, "that's offensive," well, yeah, that's the point. Native Americans see the Chief Wahoo logo generally over the six-month aeon back baseball is played. On top of that, the logo is beat and accustomed by a able baseball team. It's absurd to ignore, but little is done to change that.
Compared to the acknowledgment Chief Wahoo gets throughout bisected the year, the Caucasians shirt pales in comparison. Ideally, it elicits the aforementioned response, and bodies who accept adamantly denied the racism abaft the Chief Wahoo logo will amend their stance.
Probably not, though. The bodies who adamantly avert Chief Wahoo will added than acceptable abide to ample their diapers accusatory about Jones and his Caucasians T-shirt. That's the point. The Caucasians shirt is declared to betrayal the affectation of those who still abutment the Chief Wahoo logo.
Jones is a big-time sports personality, and ESPN is a huge sports network, so it will be absorbing to see if the publicity the shirt receives prompts change from MLB or from the Indians. That seems abundantly unlikely, but acclaim to Jones for bringing added absorption to the issue.
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ESPN has abeyant on-air personalities for less, so Jones' accomplishments could amount him some awning time in the advancing weeks. If that's the case, we're accommodating to assumption Jones is added than blessed to lose some pay if it causes some to amend their position on Chief Wahoo.
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