*** Youths in History: Chief's fan








Youths in History: Chiefs Fan (December 2023)

Chiefs blackface


Figure 1.-- This young fan came out to cheer on his beloved Chiefs. As as is not uncommon among die hard fans, he has his face painted in the team colors--red and black. So race baiting sports news site 'Deadspin' accused the boy of evil white racism and attempted to ruin his life, charming him with heinous crime of black face. And Deadspin did not do this innocently. They published a shot selectively showing a side image in an effort to make the charge. Put ypor cursor on the image to see the side blackface shot.

Americans love their sports. But the race baiters in America lose no opportunity to drum up racial hatred, even if the victim is only 9 years old and completely innocent. Incidents like this are so common they really highlight that actual racist incidents are so rare that they have to be manufactured to feed the voracious appetite of the race baiting industry. This young fan came out to cheer on his beloved Chiefs. As as is not uncommon among die hard fans, he has his face painted in the team colors--red and black. So race baiting sports news site 'Deadspin' accused the boy of evil white racism and attempted to ruin his life, charming him with heinous crime of black face. And Deadspin did not do this innocently. They published a shot selectively showing a side image in an effort to make the charge. The front image of the innocent boy involves makes it is clear that he is wearing the teams black and red face paint, not blackface at all. Deadspin's top race baiter, Carron J. Phillips, charged, "On Sunday afternoon in Las Vegas, a Kansas City Chiefs fan found a way to hate Black people and the Native Americans at the same time. The image of a Chiefs fan in Black face wearing a Native headdress during a road game leads to so many unanswered questions." Phillips went on to say. the face paint proved the fan (the 9-year old boy only interested in football, "hates black people and Native Americans." He then turned his racial animus at the NFL and insisted that they need to be 'more aggressive' in changing team names and outlawing chants. He insisted that "If the NFL had outlawed the' chop' at Chiefs games and been more aggressive in changing the team’s name, then we wouldn't be here." Ironically, the boy was actually a Native American expressing his love of not only the Chiefs, but of his Native American heritage. Beyond the blackface issue, Phillips is also telling Native Americans that they should not take pride in their ancestry. He is arguing against the way that Native Americans want to express that pride such as support's team name and Native American regalia. He thinks he knows so much more than Native American how they should express their pride . His comments in fact are the very definition of racism--in this case evil Black racism. The parents are now suing Phillips and Deadspin, alleging that they 'maliciously and wantonly' attacked their son as part of a 'race-drenched political agenda' to 'generate clicks'. There is no doubt about Phillips animus, because the family sent him a copy of the frontal image to which he replied in a now-deleted tweet, saying he could explain how 'red and black face paint is just as offensive as blackface', adding that the family also hates Mexicans. And he then contended thst Indian head dress is racist. But this is America. Phillips will have his day in court. It may prove to be a very expensive day.









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Created: 4:04 AM 2/9/2024
Last updated: 4:04 AM 2/9/2024