Green With Prejudice
I will support the call to end Wahoo’s reign as Chief of the Tribe as soon as you rail against that pugilistic leprechaun in South Bend [“The Curse of Chief Wahoo,” April 25]. Sure’n Notre Dame’s usage of such a wee animated caricature is offensive to many Irish Catholics in America.
As a child, I often wondered if I would ever grow to be tall or if I’d have to fight all the time in the schoolyard. I still lament that I cannot grow a snazzy red beard, and I have never been able to find those curly-toed shoes in a size 14EE.
Kevin McCarthy Sr.
Winning Cures All Ills
Chief Wahoo and the Indians name has always been racist, and it’s a blight on Cleveland so long as it remains. Change the name, change the mascot, and join the 21st century. It would take all of two minutes, and any firestorm would blow over in a month … or whenever the new team started winning.
Jason Austin
My Wife the Enabler
Years ago at the old stadium, I asked a Wahoo demonstrator to sell me his “Chicago Jews” shirt. I told him, truthfully, that I am not only from Chicago, but also Jewish. He refused. I told him he needed to grow a thicker skin and walked away. Twenty years later, I still feel the same way. I told my wife about the shirt. Bless her, she had one custom-made for my birthday.
Chuckles the Clown
Unionized Boondoggle
The nearly worthless $900 million (including interest) Medical Mart — paid for by the unvoted county sales tax increase by corrupt Democrat politicians who belong in prison — should be stopped by the FBI phonies who ignore it or by Occupy Cleveland’s slackers finally getting serious and occupying the site. But they won’t, because they and allied unions constructing this make-work monstrosity protect the corrupt Democratic Party, which unions fund.
Medical Mart = Big Corruption
This article appears in May 30 – Jun 5, 2012.
It’s always been a puzzle to me how any one could see Chief Wahoo as a symbol of racism. How does a symbol, a mascot, that is perennially venerated, evidenced by the purchase of hats, sweatshirts, t-shirts, coats and as I recall tattoos (circa 1997), register as racist? Seriously, you have to be one twisted sister, or hold in admiration, the status of victim hood, to such a degree, that one finds some kind of joy out of being an ass ache to the rest of us. Your only accomplishment is to denigrate the definition, of real racism.
I always looked at Chief Wahoo as a pretty friendly guy. Everyone is so busy being politically correct, no one can have anything said to them anymore. So I say we go in the opposite direction. Let’s change the name of every sports team to some sort of Ethnic Slur, that way everyone can be equally offended. They can even mock religious groups if we need more team names. Everyone needs to chill out and stop being so sue happy. Life is offensive, and it’s even more offensive if you get offended by any little offensive thing that comes along and offends you.
Piss off all you PC mascot crybabies…
Chief Wahoo is SO MUCH a part of CleOh’s fabric that if he did decided to go away we would loose a CONSIDERABLE part of WHO WE ARE…That character is not only him but it is US too…
Freaken retards…