Daily News | Kansas City brings racist imagery and antics to the Super Bowl – again
“I understand that they think they’re honoring the idea of Indians, but they’re honoring an idea that came out of Hollywood a long time ago, and doesn’t have anything to do with modern life,” says Terry Shepard, an enrolled member of the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of the Mohican Nation who lives in Bryn Mawr. “It always breaks my heart whenever I hear Indians declare, ‘We’re still here,’ because everybody thinks of us as the disappearing Indians.
Despite the Arrowhead Stadium bans, fans are allowed in with face paint and headdresses, says Rhonda LeValdo, a cofounder of Kansas City’scoalition, which has organized regular protests at home games for years. The Kansas City Chiefs did not respond to requests for comment on this observation. LeValdo and her fellow protestors say they have faced hostility from fans encountering their “Stop the Chop” and “Change the Name” signs. Fans have screamed slurs and thrown glass bottles at them. LeValdo says that they’re “trying to educate people on what the real history of this country is, and they don’t want to hear it.
Many activists planning to protest say the time will come for Kansas City to officially give up the name and the chop. “They obviously know what they’re doing is wrong because they’re taking steps to curb that [behavior],” LeValdo said. With Kansas City’s recent success and increasing profits — the organization is valued at $3.7 billion —LeValdo says the owners have paid no attention to their requests for comment. But that doesn’t dissuade her. “They need to understand that our people matter, our voices matter, our identity matters. And we need to be seen as human beings.”
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