Indigenous Peoples Media Project of POOR Magazine and POOR NEWS NETWORK fully endorses the action United Native Americans Hosts: Occupy America's Past-Time. Ending Racism Towards Indigenous People. We at POOR News Network are passionate about the issues of racist mascoting and have been reporting and supporting on these issues many years.
We support the call to the Major League Baseball to end all racist mascots, and to create a National Day of Honor for American Indians in Major League Baseball. Native Americans are rarely noted in history except in cases of colonization, genocide, and racist stereotypes. Native Americans are only noted when it supports capitalism and not when we are asserting our own self-determination.
We know that there are sports that the American public plays such as lacrosse and football, that stem from indigenous sports and games played by Native Americans and Pacific Islanders. Native Americans still continue to play our indigenous sports and games such as handgames, Cherokee marbles, stickball, lacrosse, while playing other sports that include baseball and basketball.
Just as the motto of this call of action is:
Our History IS Your History
We have contributions
We are not mascots, we are Human Beings.
We stand aligned with that voice and urge the Major League Baseball to stop the racist mascoting within its organization and to create a National Day of Honor for American Indians in Major League Baseball.
AHO!
POOR Magazine, and POOR NEWS NETWORK
Indigenous Peoples Media Project of PNN
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