https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GayKDkIcL9A&feature=youtu.be
It’s pretty much a yearly tradition at this point for Cleveland Indians fans who walk past Native American protestors outside Jacobs Field or whatever they’re calling it these days. One side would like for fans to stop worshipping a red face Indian cartoon while the other side (always angry white people) don’t want to lose their traditions and lose yet another grip on the way it always was.
One thing leads to another and Cleveland.com sends in a camera to record the interactions between both sides on Opening Day. I think you know where this is headed.
As for progress, this will be the final season the Indians organization will use the Wahoo logo. This was announced in January:
A point of contention for some and beloved by others, the Chief Wahoo logo will be removed from Cleveland’s uniforms beginning with the 2019 season.
On Monday, Major League Baseball announced that the Indians will discontinue the use of the divisive logo on their uniforms after the 2018 campaign. The decision was made mutually by MLB and the team, which had been working together to come up with an appropriate timeline and solution to the issue, as it gained steam in recent years.
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MLB and the Indians opted to have the Native American caricature removed from the on-field uniforms next year, but the logo will still have a limited retail presence in Northeast Ohio and Goodyear, Ariz. In order to maintain control of the trademark, ensuring that another group could not seize it and profit, the Indians needed to retain some level of retail involving the logo.
Cleveland may consider adding a new complementary logo in the future, but it will focus on the Block C as the primary symbol for now. There are no plans to change the team’s name.
What’s clear after Friday is that the they’re taking away our traditions crowd doesn’t appear to give a shitt whether they look like fools on YouTube. Clearly they’re still out of fuccs to give about your feelings, Native Americans.
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