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In response to this statement, ESPN, through a spokesman, declined on Sunday to comment. But here’s how it works. ESPN defends the actions of its on-air talent by pointing to the FSU tradition and its “Gameday” tradition. FSU, in turn, defends itself by claiming that some members of the Seminole tribe support the “Osceola and Renegade” show (even while other members of the tribe call it a “minstrel show.”) And a whole new generation of college students learns the lesson that it’s okay to denigrate Native American traditions and symbols– to think it’s all great fun and a big joke.
No one, including the executives at ESPN, would ever tolerate a show today in which a white man donned black face and pranced around a set. And yet no one, including ESPN, seems to have a problem with a white man goofting around in a similar fashion as a Native American tribal chief. The disconnect between those two realities is the disconnect today in America between what whites and blacks think is insensitive to Native Americans and what Native Americans think is insensitive to them. In a perfect world, the victims of stereotypes, and not the perpetrators of them, would get to decide what is and is not offensive. But of course no one needs to tell the American Indian that this is not a perfect world.
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