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Old 01-12-2016, 06:31 PM  
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Yael T. Abouhalkah: Stop the tomahawk chop
Yael T. Abouhalkah: C’mon, Chiefs fans, knock off the boorish tomahawk chop


BY YAEL T. ABOUHALKAH
abouhalkah@kcstar.com

Too many Kansas City Chiefs fans love to engage in the boorish and insulting tomahawk chop while celebrating before, during and after football games.

Here’s how this silly behavior looked Saturday prior to the Chiefs’ playoff victory against the Houston Texans.

It’s especially embarrassing that the chop is still popular as the nation’s sports fans focus this week on the Chiefs’ playoff game Saturday, when they visit the New England Patriots, the defending National Football League champions.

Now others around the country will just have more legitimate reasons to criticize Chiefs fans. As a USA Today writer aptly noted last week, “The Tomahawk chop is so much more offensive than a nickname as it’s active, not passive.”

Plenty of people have laid out the good reasons over the years for why many Native Americans don’t like the chop, mostly because it really has nothing to do with their history and is a “clear mockery of Indian culture.” The celebration gesture also is infamously used by fans of the Atlanta Braves and Florida State teams.

The Chiefs organization, to their discredit, have refused to actively campaign against the chop. Instead, they encourage it with the music played at Arrowhead Stadium, even as they have engaged with Indian groups on more perfunctory actions, such as blessing the Chiefs’ drum at the stadium.

Yes, this is an age-old debate in Kansas City. Some fans properly see the distasteful practice as something they won’t engage in; others defend it as just good fun.

(And please don’t get me started on the argument that “the Chiefs were named after former Mayor H. Roe Bartle’s nickname.” Team officials going back decades have used Native American signs, etc., to promote the club.)

Plenty of Americans are trying to get the Washington Redskins to change their highly offensive name. One day, they might just succeed.

It would show great progress for Kansas City sports fans to drop the silly tomahawk chop at Chiefs games.

Just don’t hold your breath that this kind of respectable action will be taken.

Yael T. Abouhalkah: 816-234-4887, abouhalkah@kcstar.com, @YaelTAbouhalkah


Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/opinion/op...#storylink=cpy
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Old 01-13-2016, 06:25 PM   #226
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We created the term Superbowl. Won one and then have been awful the rest of the way. Wasted the careers of so many good players. We basically just all shit ourselves because we just won a single playoff game.
Hey man, these micro-agressions are not cool. You need to calm down, im starting to get offended here.
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Old 01-13-2016, 06:26 PM   #227
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Honestly Zach, your insults on our beloved franchise is making me feel rather uncomfortable and i must ask you to refrain from using that tone.
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The Chiefs history is mediocrity and nothing more. Nobody cares it isn't good or classic.
Honest question: Is your history any different?
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Old 01-13-2016, 06:30 PM   #229
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i love how the tomahawk is SOMEHOW derogatory towards indians. Seriously, just shut the **** up.
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It's all about intent. If thy intent be true....and so forth. Nobody does the chop to demonstrate insult. It is done in the spirit of the game to illustrate taking down the opponent.

If you can't tell the difference, maybe you shouldn't be a fan.
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Honestly Zach, your insults on our beloved franchise is making me feel rather uncomfortable and i must ask you to refrain from using that tone.
We need to get you to a safe zone immediately.
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Honestly Zach, your insults on our beloved franchise is making me feel rather uncomfortable and i must ask you to refrain from using that tone.
I tend to agree with him.
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Who cares? Whats next? The name "Chiefs" is offensive too?
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I tend to agree with him.
That's because you're an oppressor and don't believe in social justice. The mere fact that you agree with him is a micro-aggression in and of itself.
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This thread is starting to make me feel uncomfortable. I'm going to file a scathing report with the mods using a very upset, yet professional tone and recommend that both edave and Zach complete a sensitivity training course before being allowed to post again.
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WTF is "micro-aggression"?
A Micro-aggression is a brief and commonplace daily verbal, behavioral, or environmental indignities, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative slights and insults.

It's a very common tactic used by people like Zach to oppress Chiefs fans...and honestly....i'm not going to stand for it anymore.

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A Micro-aggression is a brief and commonplace daily verbal, behavioral, or environmental indignities, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative slights and insults.

It's a very common tactic used by people like Zach to oppress Chiefs fans...and honestly....i'm not going to stand for it anymore.

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Oh. I thought it was an aggressive midget or something.
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WTF is "micro-aggression"?
It's where you're not being 'mean' but you still bum someone out by noticing differences, or even subconsciously maybe playing into them without noticing.

Asking an Asian kid for help with math.
Commenting on a black girls hair.
Asking a minority if they know someone who's the same minority.
Telling a Brit they have nice teeth.

You get the idea.
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