Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl Glory Fades Quickly But Outrage Against 'Chop' Endures

Our journalistic ethics (lulz) requires us to remain agnostic on this topic. 

However . . .

Our job is to share THE REAL with Kansas City readers . . . And the writing is on the wall no matter how much our old school colleagues hate it . . . The "Chiefs" moniker and the traditions which define the club are quickly going the way of the Dodo.

One more example . . .

In a recent column, Randy Essex of the Detroit Free Press ripped Kansas City for the use of the Tomahawk Chop. The gesture—like many other names and imitations of Native American culture in sports—has been widely scrutinized, but Essex truly didn’t hold back in decrying the offensiveness of the gesture.

“As a lifelong and previously long-suffering Kansas City Chiefs fan, I love everything about the team emerging as a dynasty. Except, well, the racism,” Essex writes in the Free Press. “Let’s start with the oafish, obnoxious Tomahawk Chop. It’s a chant accompanied by a drumbeat and an arm-chopping motion that evokes cartoonish 1950s stereotypes of Native Americans.”

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Columnist Slams Chiefs for Controversial Tomahawk Chop Gesture

The ' latest Super Bowl win brought massive publicity to the franchise-most of it favorable. It also gives observers a chance to shine a light on aspects of the organization that deserve criticism. In a recent column, Randy Essex of the Detroit Free Press ripped Kansas City for the use of the Tomahawk Chop.