I was interviewed by @adweek: “Our relatively small band of Native people & allies (@EONMassoc) proceeded to coordinate a barrage of tweets educating other Americans on the harmful stereotypes mascotry promotes about Native people.”
#notyourmascot@nfl
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"Following the team's announcement last month, bookmakers determined which of the options was lined up to be the likely winner.
The status quo was favorite for PointsBet at 3-1, followed by Presidents (5-1), and Red Hogs (6-1)."
#NotYourMascot @WashingtonNFL!
Which one would you choose? So glad we're #NotYourMascot @WashingtonNFL!!
"On ESPN last September team CEO Tanya Snyder confirmed 7 unofficial finalists: Armada, Brigade, Commanders, Defenders, Presidents, Red Hogs, and yes, Washington Football Team."
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It's finally happening folks! The Washington NFL team, like the Cleveland MLB team, will finally have a new mascot.
EONM launched #NotYourMascot in January 2014 during the Super Bowl and now, in January 2022 –8 years later it's a reality. #NoMoreStereotypes
“I think it’s a misrepresentation of the Cherokee people or Native Americans in general,” Ryan Helsley, @Cardinals reliever & @CherokeeNation citizen. “Just depicts them in this kind of caveman-type people way... and it devalues us." #NotYourMascot@Braves#StopTheChop
What I wrote about the Cleveland Indians (I was born there) in 2014 in @Salon.
#ClevelandGuardians#NotYourMascot
My life as a Cleveland Indian: The enduring disgrace of racist sports mascots https://t.co/YuN7O2phY6
@Stacy_Nguyen_ The victory is for my parents' generation, too. All those 20K plus Natives who came to Cleveland in the 1950s-70s on the federal Indian Relocation program and started this demand for change. I am their child.
#NotYourMascot CLE @Indians #ClevelandGuardians
Glad to see this change. I hope that Cleveland Guardians guards the rights of all people in the city, regardless of color or ethnicity.
#NotYourMascot CLE
“The historical backdrop of the issue of mascots needs to be identified as anti-Native loathing and dehumanization that has existed in this region for four centuries,” writes Mishy Lesser. #TheTimeIsNow#NotYourMascot
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What to make of this?
The owners of the @Chiefs have lost their minds to think this makes mascotting our culture okay.
The team is named for a WHITE former City Mayor whose nickname was the "Chief." Can they just mascot HIM already?
#NotYourMascot
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