MISSION, Kan. — Kansas City Chiefs fans who file into Arrowhead Stadium on Thursday for a masked and socially distanced start to the NFL season won’t be wearing headdresses or face paint amid a nationwide push for racial justice following the police-custody death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
Students at nearby Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kansas, are among those who demanded changes. “It dehumanizes us and gives us Native Americans this picture of being this savage beast that is hungry for fighting when in real life we are nothing like that,” said the 22-year-old business major from Madison, Wisconsin.
“It is something that gets us riled up together and that we do as one. It has never been meant to be disrespectful at all,” he said. Calls to address racial issues have become more prevalent in the wake of Floyd’s death. Floyd, a Black man, died May 25 after a white Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee into the handcuffed Floyd’s neck for nearly eight minutes during an arrest over counterfeit money. The officer and three other officers were fired and have been charged in Floyd’s death.
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Kansas City Chiefs fans who file into Arrowhead Stadium Thursday evening for a masked and socially distanced start to the NFL season won't be wearing headdresses or face paint..BULLSHIT. bend over bitches and take it up the ass fans.SUCKERS not doing it.Chiefs
I can already read the headlines...”people who refuse to wear a mask will refuse to take off the headdress and makeup”
Sucks to be in the US, at least in Canada face paint is still acceptable, celebrated even and elected to the highest office. TrudeauBlackface
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