You may have followed the story of the youthful Kansas City Chiefs fan with face painted half black and half red
Here’s the latest development:
The mother of a young football fan who wore a headdress and painted his face red and black to a Kansas City Chiefs game has blasted Deadspin for accusing him of “doubling up” on racism against black and Native communities — noting that her son is himself Native American.
Oopsies!
The accusations against this young fan were already prepostrous, and reminded me ever-so-slightly of the anti-Sandmann brouhaha, in that a boy was accused of supposedly being prejudiced against native Americans, even though he never was. Well, this Chiefs kid has a “get out of jail free” card of the best kind; his grandfather “sits on the board of the Chumash Tribe in Santa Ynez, California, according to the Post Millennial.”
I guess the child cannot be accused of cultural appropriation.
Phillips, a former New York Daily News reporter, also slammed Holden’s Native American headdress and his “Tomahawk Chop” gesture, claiming the boy “found a way to hate Black people and Native Americans at the same time.”
“It takes a lot to disrespect two groups of people at once,” Phillips wrote in the article, which has since been tagged with a community note on X branding it “purposely deceiving.”
Phillips, who is black, must have thought he had a regular white kid a la Sandmann whom he could demonize. A miscalculation.
No problem; it’s the bile and venom which counts, not the truth. He’ll get his woke Gold Ribbon.
Reporter = Idjit
Oooooops….
Daily news is a bumper crop of hot takes see lupica
Hes the race reporter at deadspin
It would be lovely to see this family sue and bankrupt Deadspin.
It is on life support after thiel crushed it
Diversity (i.e. color judgment, class bigotry), Equity, Inclusion #YouToo, eventually.
Maybe all non-African children look the same to him.
I read last week that there is a brewing battle about the Washington Redskins, which have been renamed the Washington Commanders or something equally officially neutral (i.e., neutered).
It would appear that the Indian organization that was used as the highly-vocal, camera-friendly ‘official’ advocate on these matters of offensive team mascots, actually had overstepped their authority to act as spokesman. And now another Native American faction has stepped forward and expressed their objection, as well as taking umbrage, at the name change – which they have historically embraced wholeheartedly. It would seem that Wokeism is also subject to certain territorial aspects when it comes to sports teams.
I hope that Deadspin and the odious reporter responsible are sued into the poorhouse on their way to oblivion. Gawker them. Gawker them Now.
They could still say it’s “cultural appropriation” for a Chumash Indian to wear a feathered war bonnet, which (I read somewhere) was authentically only worn by the big leaders of the Oglala Sioux.
So Carron Phillips is male? Looks like we have an honest to G-d male “Karen”.
I hear tell that in the Washington area, everyone but the newspeople still call them the Redskins.
Carron Phillips hoped that the boy would get beat by black classmates, and that his family would be humiliated and ruined.
Carron should be ashamed, as should his friends and family.
Every twitter user should follow Carron and insult him daily.
I’m with Fullmoon. This guy is an opportunistic scumbag and his name is Carron Phillips. People that encounter him should treat him accordingly.
Aggie, I like the guy who said the Washington Commanders should be renamed the Washington Predators. Fits DC’s MO.
Kate
My brother spent his first 3 years of high school in Washington DC. His best DC friend’s grandfather was born and raised on the rez in Oklahoma. His grandfather made the decision to assimilate and became a prominent DC attorney. He was a big Redskins fan, who had no objection at all to the team name.
My conclusion: if an Indian/Native American born on the reservation had no problem with the Redskins’ name, why should I object to the name?
Neo:
Instapundit: WORST “DE-ESCALATION EXPERT” EVER:
The author of the above is Susan Schorn, a professor at UT-Austin.Her describing the Covington Catholic boys is an impeccable example of her peacekeeping and de-escalation skills. 🙂
Looks like there’s a movement to have everyone in the stands in red/black facepaint next week…
https://twitter.com/MattWallace888/status/1729674800409223303
It is a compliment to have a sports team named after you. There is a reason teams have names like Lions, Giants and Braves instead of Weasels, Midgets and Cowards.
There is zero chance that Carron will admit error much less apologize. Instead the kid will be shoehorned into “white supremacy”.
I read the b*****d doxxed the kid, too.
I had read that University of North Dakota had most of the Sioux on board with them staying the Sioux. (Actually, Sioux led the fight to keep the school nickname.) Eventually, one of the tribes capitulated to wokeness and the tribal council didn’t support it. I always wondered about the about face: was it tribal leaders not representing the desires of their people, or was it people who, though enrolled members, no longer lived in the reservation and became woker than the residents?
I thought Brandon Morse had the best answer to the “What was he thinking?” question about the Deadspin writer, which plays into the commenters discussion about the Washington Redskins on the post Neo linked.
https://redstate.com/brandon_morse/2023/11/29/the-likely-answer-to-why-deadspin-tried-to-cancel-a-little-chiefs-fan-n2166974
First he quotes from the Deadspin article
And then surmises:
I doubt Phillips will suffer anything at all substantive, none of the other lying journalists do.
But any Democrat who ever again wants to get points for their agenda because “it’s for the children” should be spurned and mocked.
I’ve watched the Redskins brouhaha from a distance, with some amusement. As a Native Washingtonian I grew up with the Redskins, and faintly remember the first game I attended; Eddie Le Baron was the quarterback, and it was played in the now-extinct Griffith Stadium (Howard University Hospital now occupies that site, as it has since the mid 1970s).
I know little of Snyder, who used to own the team, other than he seems to be some degree of reprobate, not uncommon among the moneyed elite; I know even less of the new management, but I would welcome a name change, despite the complete lack of intestinal fortitude necessary to accomplish it.
“The Unnamed” would be my choice, with the team having no name whatsoever. Use the same uniforms and helmets each week, a middle gray from the B&W photographer’s gray scale of yesteryear, no names on the uniforms and the numbers in simple lightly contrasting black and of the minimum size allowed by the NFL.
Then be the absolute best team in the NFL, bar none. Destroy anonymity not with some team name but team performance and tell the hand-wringers and naysayers to commit a solitary impossible act. “Who did you play for?” answered with “we had no name” should be the headline on every player’s resume.
They will always be the Redskins!!
They were properly called the lakota my college advisor was an expert on them, he was a crazy lefty but he knew things that is not true of the current generation
I don’t care if he’s aboriginal or not. His detractors are asses and should be spat upon, starting with this Carron Phillips creep.
For a while, the Redskins were simply “Washington,” which I found less annoying than the “Commanders.” It makes them sound like Biden’s untrained aggressive dog.
I am a life-long Kansas City resident (except for a stint in the Navy), and one thing these idjits don’t know about the Chiefs. They didn’t get their name from Native Americans. H. Roe Bartle was the mayor who was responsible for getting the Dallas Texans to move to KC in 1963. His nickname was “The Chief”, and the name is an homage to him. They adopted the Native American stuff around it, but that’s not the origin.
I think the Chiefs could get away from the controversy by adapting a Navy theme instead. I was a Chief Petty Officer in the Navy, so I am, in fact, a Kansas City Chief!
I was speaking of the sioux ive never heard of the chumash before
Carron Philips is the product of Maoist struggle sessions. He probably has a few skeletons in his closet but deliberately misuses an innocuous to deflect attention away from him.
Goodell is why i rooted for the patriots for years hes an insufferable prat, who should have never left the mail room
Cavendish, love your suggestion that perhaps we should just gray-out the former Redskins brand. It would be pretty tempting to give them a name, though, at that point. How about the Washington NPC’s?
For guys like Phillips, eating vanilla ice cream is a non-starter; it’s just too white.
Yep, there is no event, no words, no item, no thought, no subject, no anything at all that cannot be interpreted as being racist.
This is the worldview of folks like Phillips.
Keep at it Mr. Phillips; keep yelling about that wolf.
I thought Washington Commanders was a good name for the team, although I usually shorten the appellation to Washington Commies.
” Chief” is not even an Indian word, at least not originally. Seems to be an English version of a French word. It would seem that Europeans called the top Indian guy in a tribe a ” Chief ” because that was the European word for the leader of a small group. The Indians would have had their own word for that guy at the top, at least until they adopted the European ” chief ” word.
Chumash Indians are a Californian tribe, original area roughly Malibu-Los Angeles-Ventura-Santa Barbara.
I always thought that the Washington “Reds” was the best idea.
Jon baker,
I don’t know about French (that’s huxley and PA Cat’s turf), but “Chef” is German for “boss.” “Chefin” is the feminine form.
Rufus, German picked up ‘Chef’ from French. Same with ‘Büro’ for office.