MLB strongly decried the incident in Boston recently where the Baltimore Oriole’s Adam Jones said at least one fan called him the n-word. It became fodder for SNL’s Weekend Update, naturally, and they made the obvious connection to Cleveland.
SNL Weekend Update speaking the truth, Cleveland! We are better than this. I love our baseball team, but the racist logo has to go. #dechief pic.twitter.com/1eX6DlcbYS
— Lisa (@amusemymuse) May 7, 2017
This article appears in May 3-9, 2017.
Vince Grzegorek has been with Scene since 2007 and editor-in-chief since 2012. He previously worked at Discount Drug Mart and Texas Roadhouse.
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Idiots it’s not racist it’s a caricture of a baseball teams name. Spend some time fighting a real cause like homless children in America. Too sensitive people.
Did you even watch the show? The joke did NOT get all that many laughs.Nobody outside of Cleveland cares. Hell, most people IN Cleveland probably didn’t laugh, applaud, or go crazy.
Keep on beating this dead horse, guys, every chance you get. You’re pissing into the wind.
Chuckles the Clown
Chuckles nailed it!
Scene is censoring mention of the Chief Wahoo embezzlement scandal reported by the PD.
Brian…can we finally agree on something…at last? And how’s that John B song coming along?
Chuckles the Clown
Funny that SNL should follow this up with Leslie Jones’s race-based sexual harassment of Colin Jost, which they’re apparently fine with.
Chief Wahoo is an abomination and a disgrace. We need to get rid of him. I am a lifelong Clevelander and I’ve always hated him. When I was a kid I thought he was ugly and scary. Now I think he’s racist beyond belief and an embarrassment to the team and the city. Enough is enough. It is time for Chief Wahoo to go.
Nothing brings out the WATBs like the acknowledgement that Wahoo is racist.
Oh good! Chuckles watched the whole show and can decide the country and native american’s perceptions of chief wahoo based on his Total Laughs algorithm. When have broad generalizations and gut instincts of random white dudes ever gone against Native Americans, right?
* Did not watch the whole show…hardly ever do. It just isn’t worth the time.
* The Leslie Jones sketch was quite cringeworthy…a real SMH and WTF moment.
* The vast majority of the country either doesn’t give a shit about Wahoo…or likes it.
* Native Americans do not overwhelmingly disapprove of the logo. Some even wear it.
Never assume…it makes an ASS out of U and ME…but mostly out of U.
Chuckles the Clown
Go ahead, Millennial sheeple, pile on all the dislikes you wish, but it won’t stop me…and all the other geezers… from wearing Wahoo to the park. Not unless they totally ban it. And on the streets of Cleveland, you will have to yank it from our heads and rip it from our cold, dead corpses.
(Wish this site had emoticons…especially a razzberry)
The more somebody tries to change something by force, the more tightly the die-hards will hold onto it. Ask the Johnny Rebs in Dixie about that.
Chuckles the Clown
Boy, Chuckles sure has a pathetic lot of time on his hands to defend an ugly, racist logo. Methinks the lady doth protest too much.
Boy, Chuckles sure has a pathetic lot of time on his hands to defend an ugly, racist logo, but then he’s still fighting the Civil War too, so he must have some serious issues! Methinks the lady doth protest too much. And if Chief Wahoo is such a non-issue, then why is the on-field mascot a big ugly purple Muppet, eh?? Why isn’t it a full-size big-headed Chief Wahoo in 3D? Could it be because THAT would be too MUCH?! So if that’s too much, then why is the logo okay? Answer me that.
Okay, Lauren…the lady (or whatever you are) came to the right place this time. You are asking the man who knows.Why? Because…I worked for the organization in the mid-Nineties, when Slider (his given name) was born.
It was the heyday of big, ugly, fuzzy mascots. Philly had its Phanatic, San Diego had its scrawny Chicken, and the White Sox had Ribbie and Rhubarb…possibly the worst mascots of all time. Cleveland decided to go with the Chicago-style mascots…hence Slider, for whom I have NO love whatsoever. The whole concept is idiotic, anyway. Have you even been on your bandwagon long enough to know he is nothing close to a Muppet? Were you around when he fell off the wall and broke his arm? People actually laughed at him.
As for a 3-D Wahoo, it would not have been the first Native American mascot.. The Braves had their own Chief-Nok-a-Homa in the outfield stands for many years. He even came out of a goddamned TEEPEE and did a WAR DANCE, presumably after an Atlanta home run. Nok-a-Homa eventually retired to Oklahoma, where he got a job making Tak-Homa-Saks for Steak and Shake.
To be honest, Wahoo never mattered much to me when I worked for the TRIBE…or for years afterwards. It was only when the PC Police began telling me the error of my ways that I became a “die-hard”…and you can also dispense with that “fighting the Civil War” bullshit, right now.
Not hating Wahoo does not make one a supporter of George Wallace or the Lost Cause of the Confederacy. Wahoo supporters seldom, if ever, fly the Stars and Bars. The two are mutually exclusive and have nothing to do with one another. So get off the high horse.
If I do not want what you want, please try not to tell me that what I want is wrong. I do not, for the moment at least, ask you to understand me. That will come only when you are willing to give up changing me into a copy of you.
Chuckles the Clown
I literally only read these Wahoo-bashing articles for the Chuckles rant – this one was one of the best.
Vince – don’t stop with your stupid little posts.
Thanks…it’s what I do…
Or should I be cursing you instead? (Hey, I’m old…so I’m confused…)
If Vince’s posts are so stupid…then why don’t you want him to stop? That does not make a whole lot of sense.
But each story that bashes Wahoo is yet another excuse to be able to type “racist red Sambo”…and to show that tired red-black image. Wow…heavy duty snark, man. Where can I get one? What size is it?
Would look great on my mantel. Right next to the 10-inch-high red-white-and -blue guitar I got at the RNC last summer.
Nothing screams out ” Cleveland!” like a flag guitar, or a split-down-the-middle, bi-colored bobblehead (Racial divide, East Side-West Side…the whole megillah).
Chuckles the Clown
Slider is a pink (offensive to gays) proboscis (offensive to Jews) monkey (offensive to blacks). LET’S BAN HIM NOW!!!!