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Oh dear, it seems someone has stolen “Chief Zee“’s tomahawk.

My heart goes out to the dear gent … OK, no, that would be a lie - it doesn’t.

The guy still seems totally incapable of understanding just how downright offensive and racist his antics are considered by many.

I guess it can only be a total ignorance of the issues he ends up being a caricature of that he thinks it must be a “prank”. It doesn’t seem to even remotely cross his mind, given his remarks, that anyone might just have taken his tomahawk because of how racist his portrayal of NDNs is.

It’s kind of funny though. You’d never call tearing down a KKK cross, or swiping the noose from someone who showed up at a football game dressed like a Klansman, “theft” (petty or otherwise) so it’s kind of a stretch for anyone to say this was “stolen”, as some media have portrayed it.

Whatever the reason behind it being taken, I honestly hope someone has tossed it in the Chesapeake Bay or something. I don’t care if the guy has been carrying it for 25 years, it’s no different in context than a KKK cross or a noose.

It’s too much to hope that some “well meaning” person won’t replace it for the guy, however. What do they care? Thanks to people like Zema Williams, racism against the People seems perfectly acceptable to the majority of the population.

One only has to look at the recent legal judgment that returns a fraction of the $60+ billion owed to the People from the Land Trust debacle to see it - or the legal system preserving the football team’s name to preserve the sheer volume of money they makes from the franchise, racism be damned.

The media is all about how today is doubly historic - 45 years to the day the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. made his “I have a dream” speech and the day Barack Obama will become the first black presidential nominee for a major political party …

The theft of Zema Williams’ tomahawk isn’t anywhere near “up there” with those events, or Rosa Parks refusing to be forced to sit in the back of a bus, but it’s still funny as hell and a huge poke in the eye to this “icon” of a racially hypocritical group - the fans themselves.

I just guess the first inhabitants of this land are going to be the last beneficiaries of the end of racism.

Tags: chief zee, discrimination, racism, zema williams