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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 01-12-2016, 07:03 PM   #46
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Who the hell is Yael T. Abouhalkah??
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Old 01-12-2016, 07:04 PM   #47
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Old 01-12-2016, 07:05 PM   #48
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Fair enough. We need a TD celebration though. What you got?
This is my biggest issue. The did away with Gary Glitter and replaced it with garbage. It pretty much killed part of the Arrowhead experience.

What do you think a bunch of corporate ****stains will come up with to replace it? ****ing seven nation ****ing army. Or worse yet make it another fan vote where a bunch of idiots that don't even attend games vote in some abortion like the current TD song.

No. Not this time. I get that it may be offensive, but I'm going to be selfish and continue to do it because I like it.
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Old 01-12-2016, 07:05 PM   #49
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I think it stupid to equate chiefs with Indians when it was named for the mayor of Kansas city at the time. Also doing the chop is fun and the people are really behind it. It not to make fun of Indians but it a chant that draws us in.
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I always thought the chop was about H. Roe Bartle. It was a celebration of his hand coming down to sign city ordinances.
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Old 01-12-2016, 07:12 PM   #53
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Old 01-12-2016, 07:22 PM   #57
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I think they should retire it. Not because it's offensive but because it's lame.
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I agree. I don't like it. Not because it's offensive to Native Americans, but because it's old and played out.

I find it somewhat cringworthy.


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