Question for DU KC Chiefs fans

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5. The team has "outlawed" racist/stereotype clothing and the chant. Can they do more? Yes

but as one who has worked with 27 high schools on this issue in Colorado, I can assure you that the tribes I worked with were most concerned with the extremes of the issue that paint the most negative portrayal of Native Americans--e.g., the "Redskins" and their associated ridiculing mascots. Names like "Chiefs" and "Warriors" certainly were disliked by some but there were no consensus views--especially if those school teams had never indulged in demeaning symbols, logos, mascots, or gestures/chants and some of those schools retained the names.


Eventually, the Atlanta Braves and KC Chiefs may be renamed, but there are previously published viewpoints on the latter team (at least) that argue against tribe consensus in MO too. That tribes outside the region disagree is noted, however.

But, it isn't as though the KC franchise has ignored the issue nor shown a willingness to change and remove as much as they have direct control over among the fans. I would also point out that the issue of an arrowhead as a logo was not mentioned by a single consulting tribal member in our Colorado reviews as being offensive with respect to the one high school that had used it as their logo. Obviously, others may disagree.

Oh, and to the OP, I don't root for obnoxious fans on either side and there surely are some for both teams. I do root for Mahomes who, if you know his story and history, is one of the nicest, most ethical, collaborative, and talented, yet nonegotistical quarterbacks I've seen in years. Like Henry Winkler, who has expressed his unabashed "fanboy" admiration because of who Mahomes is and tries to be, I find that worth rooting for.