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Demovictory9

(32,493 posts) Wed Jan 23, 2019, 07:19 PM Jan 2019

The Covington Teens' Racist 'Tomahawk Chop' Is The Product Of Native Mascotry

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/opinion-covington-maga-native-mascot_us_5c489093e4b0b669367617e0

One student in a video does the “tomahawk chop,” an arm movement begun by the crowds at a Florida State Seminoles football game in the 1980s. It makes sense that this teenager in 2019 felt this was a good moment to do the chop because it was created to accompany the “war chant” FSU fans do at games, which, according to FSU, was originally called “Massacre” and “sounded more like chants by American Indians in Western movies.” (The history of depictions of Native peoples in Hollywood films is problematic, to say the least.)

The mockery of the moment on Friday was thrown into sharp relief on Sunday evening, when the New England Patriots played the Chiefs at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City. The crowds there long ago adopted the chop and the war chant, and anyone watching the broadcast saw and heard them both repeatedly during the game.

What really is the difference between what happened on Friday and what happened on Sunday, except that the students did it directly in the face of a Native man? (However, plenty of sports fans have done it to Native people’s faces when Native protesters have stood outside sporting events to draw attention to the use of racist mascots.)

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The Covington Teens' Racist 'Tomahawk Chop' Is The Product Of Native Mascotry (Original Post) Demovictory9 Jan 2019 OP

As I understand it, Native American music is done almost entirely for religious reasons Clash City Rocker Jan 2019 #1

It was bad when the students did it and bad in Kansas City. But only one blew up on social media. femmedem Jan 2019 #2

Atlanta Braves pangaia Jan 2019 #3

The NFL playoff coverage of this was good, they did not highlight it and even - Maine-i-acs Jan 2019 #4

The difference is it was NOT A SPORTS CHANT BY THESE BOYS. IT WAS MOCKERY. SunSeeker Jan 2019 #5

Clash City Rocker

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1. As I understand it, Native American music is done almost entirely for religious reasons

Reply to Demovictory9 (Original post)

Wed Jan 23, 2019, 07:30 PM

Jan 2019

Can someone confirm or deny that? Because, if it’s true, it means that mocking their music is also a mockery of their religious beliefs.

femmedem

(8,213 posts)

2. It was bad when the students did it and bad in Kansas City. But only one blew up on social media.

Reply to Demovictory9 (Original post)

Wed Jan 23, 2019, 07:50 PM

Jan 2019

Teenage boys--specially privileged teenage boys--acting like jerks wouldn't have dominated the news cycle when there's so much going on politically had the story not been amplified on social media by fake accounts.

Please note: I'm not defending either the students or the racist sports fans.

pangaia

(24,324 posts)

3. Atlanta Braves

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Wed Jan 23, 2019, 08:00 PM

Jan 2019

Maine-i-acs

(1,501 posts)

4. The NFL playoff coverage of this was good, they did not highlight it and even -

Reply to Demovictory9 (Original post)

Wed Jan 23, 2019, 08:29 PM

Jan 2019

cut away from it at one point as they were sweeping the stands, when the camera landed on a large swath of people doing this they cut right back to t he sidelines real fast (IMO). Not defending the chants, they were revolting when I saw them during the game. But the broadcasters did not idolize it nor did they excuse it.

SunSeeker

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5. The difference is it was NOT A SPORTS CHANT BY THESE BOYS. IT WAS MOCKERY.

Reply to Demovictory9 (Original post)

Thu Jan 24, 2019, 06:47 AM

Jan 2019

These boys are not Atlanta Braves fans whooping it up in the stands. These boys go to a school where the mascot is "The Colonel," not a Native American. Their school chant does NOT involve a tomahawk chop. That seems to be lost on the article's author, and the MSM reporting this story. They were not, contrary to lying little Nick Sandmann, doing their "school cheer."

They did the Tomahawk chop to humiliate Nathan Phillips, like the MAGA scumbags who follow Elizabeth Warren around doing the same RACIST MOCKERY.

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