{"id":242490,"date":"2023-11-29T02:52:30","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T02:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lovemainstream.com\/?p=242490"},"modified":"2023-11-29T02:52:30","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T02:52:30","slug":"kansas-city-chiefs-fan-accused-of-racist-blackface-by-reporter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lovemainstream.com\/lifestyle\/kansas-city-chiefs-fan-accused-of-racist-blackface-by-reporter\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas City Chiefs fan accused of racist blackface by reporter"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Young Kansas City Chiefs fan is accused of racist blackface by reporter &#8211; even though other half of child&#8217;s face was painted RED to match team&#8217;s colors<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Sports outlet Deadspin has accused a young Kansas City Chief&#8217;s fan of wearing racist blackface despite photos showing him wearing team colors\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><span>The young fan was also pictured wearing\u00a0 a Native American headdress, supposedly\u00a0banned by the club since 2020\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Reporter Carron Phillips received pushback online for using a &#8216;disingenuous&#8217; image\u00a0and for targeting\u00a0a child\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span>Sports outlet Deadspin has accused a young\u00a0<\/span>Kansas<span>\u00a0City Chiefs&#8217; fan of wearing racist blackface despite photos showing him wearing team colors across his entire face as well as a Native American headdress.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The uproar started when a photographer of the young fan, taken in profile, showed his face painted black.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span>Sports reporter Carron Phillips later wrote on Monday that &#8216;a\u00a0<\/span>Kansas City Chiefs<span> fan found a way to hate Black people and the Native Americans at the same time.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>But others pointed out the other half of the child&#8217;s face &#8211; one not seen in the initial picture &#8211; was painted team color red.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He also took a shot at the headdress, which the team has banned since 2020, saying the fan &#8216;doubled up&#8217; on racism by wearing the clothes some consider &#8216;cultural appropriation.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/28\/21\/78344889-12801795-image-a-1_1701208305960.jpg\" height=\"332\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Deadspin has accused a young Kansas City Chief&#8217;s fan of wearing racist blackface despite photos showing him wearing team colors<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/28\/22\/78345665-12801795-The_young_fan_was_also_pictured_wearing_a_Native_American_headdr-a-3_1701209536135.jpg\" height=\"425\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The young fan was also pictured wearing a Native American headdress, supposedly banned by the club since 2020. The fan was pictured at a game in Las Vegas<\/p>\n<p>Many indigenous communities consider wearing Native American clothing as a costume cultural appropriation, meaning the superficial or inappropriate use of another people&#8217;s cultural expression.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Blackface is the act of painting a non-black person&#8217;s skin darker to typically mock or imitate a black person.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Phillips also takes aim at the NFL in the article, writing: &#8216;If the NFL had outlawed the chop at Chiefs games and been more aggressive in changing the team&#8217;s name, then we wouldn&#8217;t be here.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Deadspin argues if the league changed the Chiefs name the same way the Washington Redskins became the Commanders, then the issue would not have arisen.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Several sports teams have faced mounting pressure in recent years to change their names and mascots that may be deemed offensive to some.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Cleveland Indians changed to the Cleveland Guardians in February 2021 after facing mounting criticism to drop the &#8216;Indians&#8217; moniker.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/28\/22\/78347169-12801795-image-a-5_1701210666885.jpg\" height=\"633\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Sports reporter Carron Phillips later wrote on Monday that &#8216;a Kansas City Chiefs fan found a way to hate Black people and the Native Americans at the same time&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/28\/22\/78347061-12801795-image-a-4_1701210528580.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>While the Chiefs have faced less criticism than other team&#8217;s calls to change Native American references remains around their use of the tomahawk chop<\/p>\n<p>While the Chiefs have faced less criticism than other team&#8217;s controversy remains around their use of the tomahawk chop, a celebration move using the\u00a0forearm forwards and backwards repeatedly with an open palm to simulate a tomahawk chopping.<\/p>\n<p>Wearing headdresses and war paint has been banned inside the Arrowhead stadium since September 2020.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The answers to all of those questions lead back to the NFL,&#8217; the article read.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;While it isn&#8217;t the league&#8217;s responsibility to stop racism and hate from being taught in the home, they are a league that has relentlessly participated in prejudice.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;If the NFL had outlawed the chop at Chiefs games and been more aggressive in changing the team&#8217;s name, then we wouldn&#8217;t be here.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After receiving pushback online by users who argued it was unfair to target a child and that it was disingenuous to say the child was in blackface, Phillips doubled down.<\/p>\n<p>Writing on X, formerly Twitter, he said: &#8216;For the idiots in my mentions who are treating this as some harmless act because the other side of his face was painted red, I could make the argument that it makes it even worse.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Adding: &#8216;Y&#8217;all are the ones who hate Mexicans but wear sombreros on Cinco.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/nfl\/article-12801795\/KC-chiefs-fan-blackface-headdress-racist.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young Kansas City Chiefs fan is accused of racist blackface by reporter &#8211; 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