Activists Are Demanding NFL To change ‘Controversial’ Team Name for 2024

Activists Are Demanding NFL To change ‘Controversial’ Team Name for 2024

The Kansas City Chiefs have emerged as the new NFL dynasty, having won back-to-back championships for the first time in decades. It’s official: this squad is the league’s face and the next dynasty of the 2020s. However, a Native American activist group wants to remove the team name as well as the team’s cultural appropriation of Native American culture.

NFL: A group of activists wants Kansas City to change its team name.

The activist group is named ‘Not In Our Honor,’ and according to the Associated Press, it is a community of activists dedicated to the removal of Native American images in sports. Rhonda LeValdo, the group’s leader, has worked relentlessly for many years on changing the imagery in sports. She went to the Super Bowl to call for the Chiefs franchise to change their name and get rid of the logo and in game rituals that they do that take directly from cultural aspects of Native Americans.

She was quoted as saying:

“I’ve invested a lot of my personal time and money on this topic. “I really hoped that our children would not have to deal with this,” LeValdo said. “But here we go again.”

The NFL promises to ‘end racism’, but not against Native Americans.

LeValdo and the activists also took issue with the NFL for the “End Racism” tag lines that appear all over the field and on players’ helmets while promoting the Chiefs. This team name, she believes, has a bad connotation for her people.

“We were like, ‘Wow, you guys put this on the helmets and on the field, but look at your name and what you guys are doing,'” LeValdo stated. “We were not even allowed to be Native Americans. We were not permitted to practice our culture. We were not permitted to wear our outfits. But it’s acceptable for Kansas City fans to beat a drum, don a headdress, and then act as if they’re commemorating us? “That does not make sense.”

It’s strange that the Washington squad had to adjust their strategy, as the Chiefs have never faced the same level of pressure. The squad also incorporates direct cultural elements of the Native American tribe into their in-game ceremonies, something Washington never accomplished. We’ll see if these activists can bring about change in the new dynasty, but it doesn’t appear that anything will happen soon or ever.

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