**** The Star

[comochiefsfan]

Worthless trash rag. Thought i'd see more of this garbage this week, but in reality the only story i've seen regarding name and imagery is from KC's own local newspaper.

Never seen a local paper hate a team they cover more than the Star hates the Chiefs.

https://www.kansascity.com/opinion/e...248955689.html




"Like most Kansas Citians, we wish the best of luck Sunday to the Chiefs, who will compete in their second straight Super Bowl.

The team won last year. We like their chances this year.

Millions of casual football fans will watch the game. Some of those viewers will be perplexed, perhaps even frustrated, by the team’s continued use of Native American imagery — the name, the arrowhead on the helmet, the troubling tomahawk chop and the crude chant that goes with it.

These gestures, and others like them, are clearly and appropriately endangered. Since the Chiefs last won the Super Bowl, the Washington Football Team dropped its offensive nickname, after resisting a change for decades.

Last December, the Cleveland Indians, a major league baseball team, announced plans for a new name.

Less than two weeks ago, the Shawnee Mission School District decided inappropriate mascot names will be prohibited. Students at Shawnee Mission North and a handful of other schools will soon cheer for their teams in a different way.

“It feels historic to me,” one school board member said, and she’s right. It also feels long overdue.

The Chiefs might have joined this list. To their credit, the team made minor changes this season, and continued their dialogue with Native American groups and other interested parties about the use of imagery. But the Chiefs did not even take the important interim step of banning the offensive chop, or reconsider the team’s name.

Kansas Citians are well aware of this controversy. Most have taken positions on the name, for it or against it. We’ve implored the team several times to consider how history will judge its continued use of the imagery, and asked leadership to think again. They haven’t taken that advice.

But the Super Bowl will put the Chiefs’ decisions front and center, for tens of millions of football fans. For those fans, a message: Many Kansas Citians will cringe along with you when spectators do the chop.

We embrace the team’s on-field success, but don’t think a corrosive chant has much to do with it.

It isn’t fair to ask groups offended by these symbols to wait even longer for change.

Some day, the Chiefs will change their name. It’s inevitable. That day may be 20 years from now, or next week. But it will happen, and the team — and our region — will be better for it."

[Marcellus]

I cant wait until that shit show of a rag is out of business.

[Direckshun]

Just want to be clear,

Thinking the name "Chiefs" is culturally inappropriate and may need to be changed = hating the Kansas City Chiefs?

I just want to make sure we've got the rules here, because they sound suspiciously grade schoolish.

[Indian Chief]

Prediction: they fold before the Chiefs change their name

[Deberg_1990]

A corrosive chant.


No one is going to cringe watching the chant. Give me a break.

[OrtonsPiercedTaint]

The TP shortage went to their heads

[comochiefsfan]

Originally Posted by Direckshun

Just want to be clear,

Thinking the name "Chiefs" is culturally inappropriate and may need to be changed = hating the Kansas City Chiefs?

I just want to make sure we've got the rules here, because they sound suspiciously grade schoolish.

Well when you combine that with actively trying to get Tyreek Hill kicked off the team, the evidence starts to mount up in that direction a little bit.

[lawrenceRaider]

Originally Posted by Direckshun

Just want to be clear,

Thinking the name "Chiefs" is culturally inappropriate and may need to be changed = hating the Kansas City Chiefs?

I just want to make sure we've got the rules here, because they sound suspiciously grade schoolish.

Until we eliminate all anthropomorphic team mascots, it is asinine to pick out teams like the Chiefs.

We aren't talking about a name that is any kind of slur here. What, you want to get your panties in a bunch about cultural appropriation? Hell, that's been going on since humans ran into other humans with different culture.

[KChiefs1]

People still care about the KC Star?

[alpha_omega]

Who is the author on that? Editorial staff???

[OrtonsPiercedTaint]

KK doing car dealership commercials on 810 is far more rage worthy

[DaFace]

I kind of feel bad for the sports writers. They're really not bad and add some unique perspectives sometimes.

But I have no intention of throwing any money at them. The broader organization is outdated and probably needs to die. There are plenty of better sources for Chiefs news and discussion out there.

[Marcellus]

Originally Posted by Direckshun

Just want to be clear,

Thinking the name "Chiefs" is culturally inappropriate and may need to be changed = hating the Kansas City Chiefs?

I just want to make sure we've got the rules here, because they sound suspiciously grade schoolish.

No, thinking the name "Chiefs" is culturally inappropriate is just plain ****ing stupid.

Especially when the team has involved many tribes in ceremonies and recognition who have no problem with it. If a handful of tribes want to take issue with it, **** them. This isn't a unilateral belief among Native Americans by any stretch of the imagination.

I am tired of the 1% trying to make all the rules for the other 99%. And 99% of the 1% complaining are ****ing white people.

[Prison Bitch]

Originally Posted by KChiefs1

People still care about the KC Red Star?

Fixed

[Rain Man]

News organizations are no longer news organizations. They're nearly all editorial magazines, either overtly or covertly.

I used to have CNN as my home page to catch up on news. I finally got fed up with having to filter their opinions out to see what the news is, and I recently switched to reuters.com. I'm really liking reuters. They seem to actually report the news.