Now Is The Perfect Time For The Indians To Quietly Abandon Chief Wahoo
http://deadspin.com/now-is-the-perfect-time-for-the-indians-to-quietly-aban-1788533409?rev=1478187949621
The Cleveland Indians are World Series losers, and when they report back to their home field on April 3, it should be without their racist logo, once and for all.
The Indians wore their second alternate uniforms all postseason long—15 games across three series without ever switching up their gear. Home or away, the day after a win or the day after a loss, the Indians trotted out their racist logo for the world to see.
We’re past the point of arguing the various virtues of keeping the logo in the franchise’s back pocket for the sake of nostalgia. It doesn’t matter what origin story you’ve heard about the logo, or that Cleveland baseball is something you shared with your dad. It doesn’t matter that it’s their second alternate logo, or that postseason merchandise has featured the block C instead. It doesn’t matter if the team means no offense by it, or if fans only show up in redface and headdresses for postseason games. It doesn’t matter if you know a Native American who says they don’t care about the logo, or if the old version of the logo used to be worse.
Cleveland fans can kick and scream and shit their pants all they want over what the logo means to them and twist themselves into knots to justify what’s plainly racist. It’s gotta go, and the franchise should do it in the wake of its World Series loss.
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