During the Cleveland Indians’ home opener last week, a group of Native Americans protested the baseball club’s use of the word “Indians” and their mascot “Chief Wahoo”…
One fan wearing face-paint and a feather headdress decided it was a good idea to confront one of the protesting Native Americans and tell him why he was wrong. The confrontation was predictably awkward and offensive, with photos of the interaction immediately making the rounds on social media…
It didn’t take long before people noted an uncanny resemblance between the 2014 confrontation and a satirical 2002 cartoon by Lalo Alcaraz…
A side by side comparison shows just how incredibly similar these two scenes are and only further cements Rodriguez, the man who instigated the confrontation, as someone who lacks even an ounce of cultural awareness or sensitivity on this issue…
