Native Americans are bracing for what they say are racist traditions as the Super Bowl-winning Kansas City Chiefs embarked Wednesday on a victory lap with a hometown parade
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“I think that’s the only thing that really bothers me about that whole thing is that, and I don’t know where it came from. And I don’t really fully understand it, but it is almost like a mockery,” Sinquah said. There were plenty performing the chop in a red sea of fans in Chiefs gear along the parade route and in front of Kansas City's Union Station, where the parade ended. The team then closed out the rally by doing the “chop” in unison in a slurry of confetti.
David Cordray, a 38-year-old heating, cooling and refrigeration technician from Kansas City, Missouri, said he doesn't see the harm in the gesture or the mascot. He also pointed to changes such as the retirement of the live mascot, a horse named “Warpaint" that a cheerleader would ride in the stadium after the team scored. Previously, a man donning a Native headdress rode the horse.
Mayor H. Roe Bartle was a large man known as “The Chief” for his many years of leadership in the Boy Scouts. Team owner Lamar Hunt reportedly named the team the Chiefs in honor of Bartle.
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