The Kansas City Chiefs faced a rush of criticism on Sunday ahead of Super Bowl LVII as an op-ed ripped the organization for keeping the moniker.
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The piece was published in Rolling Stone and was titled"The Super Bowl’s Kansas City Chiefs Are a Cruel Insult to Native Americans." "With another Super Bowl coming up, the Kansas City football team once again chooses to make a mockery of Native cultures and people with their ‘arrowhead’ chop, offensive name, and overall bastardizing of our traditions," LeValdo wrote."There is statistical data that shows it has an impact on our people.
"This is not about being politically correct," she wrote."It is about understanding the atrocities and continued historical trauma we as Native people face through the stereotypes that Kansas City football perpetuates."
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