Yesterday, Ben Keeler at the Akron Beacon Journal website politics.ohio.com
linked to our essay on the Curse of Chief Wahoo. Last week, Kyle at the
Chief Source linked to the piece at his site, and
Keeler linked to it at the Keeler Report. Yet despite this exposure, and our own not insignificant efforts to get folks to sign
our online petition to end the Curse of Chief Wahoo, only 29 have signed so far. These results and the comments here and at the above mentioned sites show just how strongly folks feel about Wahoo. Commenters on these sites have called us "crazy," "foolish," "lunatics" and "f*cking idiots." Yet nobody has articulated a good reason why Cleveland should cling to the only racial caricature currently accepted in American society -- one that potentially mocks the genocide of our nation's first people and reinforces the image of Natives as anachronistic savages -- as the symbol of our baseball team and a symbol for our City. Further, folks' willingness to dismiss the idea of a curse is at least amusing. Is basic karmic justice that hard to understand? Apparently. Should it be? No. Please please please sign and pass on our petition if you want to help end Cleveland's curse. Otherwise, enjoy whatever exquisite sporting misery will be put on our plate next. The Drive. The Fumble. The Shot. The Move. The Ninth Inning of Game Seven. There's no reason to think that it can't and won't continue to get worse. All of the Natives buried in these parts give us plenty of reason to think that it will. Meanwhile, the Indians continue to suck.
Note: The photo at the top shows Chief Wahoo on a William & Mary football helmet. Weird. There's obviously some more interesting history to chase down here, which we will do our best to do. Stay tuned.
Yesterday, Ben Keeler at the Akron Beacon Journal website politics.ohio.com linked to our essay on the Curse of Chief Wahoo. Last week, Kyle at the Chief Source linked to the piece at his site, and Keeler linked to it at the Keeler Report. Yet despite this exposure, and our own not insignificant efforts to get folks to sign our online petition to end the Curse of Chief Wahoo, only 29 have signed so far. These results and the comments here and at the above mentioned sites show just how strongly folks feel about Wahoo. Commenters on these sites have called us "crazy," "foolish," "lunatics" and "f*cking idiots." Yet nobody has articulated a good reason why Cleveland should cling to the only racial caricature currently accepted in American society -- one that potentially mocks the genocide of our nation's first people and reinforces the image of Natives as anachronistic savages -- as the symbol of our baseball team and a symbol for our City. Further, folks' willingness to dismiss the idea of a curse is at least amusing. Is basic karmic justice that hard to understand? Apparently. Should it be? No. Please please please sign and pass on our petition if you want to help end Cleveland's curse. Otherwise, enjoy whatever exquisite sporting misery will be put on our plate next. The Drive. The Fumble. The Shot. The Move. The Ninth Inning of Game Seven. There's no reason to think that it can't and won't continue to get worse. All of the Natives buried in these parts give us plenty of reason to think that it will. Meanwhile, the Indians continue to suck.
Note: The photo at the top shows Chief Wahoo on a William & Mary football helmet. Weird. There's obviously some more interesting history to chase down here, which we will do our best to do. Stay tuned.
4 comments:
Karma does not exist.
That's one argument. Do you also believe that actions don't have equal and opposite reactions? That would be an interesting argument too.
Go Tribe.
I am pretty sure science and karma are 2 seperate things. Thanks for the pep talk though. P.S. If you are cloudy on this you can ask Msrs. Shane or Stark.
Not sure how the two could possibly be separated, but suppose that your inability/unwillingness to see any connection between Newton's third law of motion (every action has an equal and opposite reaction) and the notion that one gets what's coming to her/him might give rise to any of a number of unique ideas.
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