Cancel culture racists erased Redskins Native hero, silenced his family: a Blackfeet victim shares struggle
Two Guns White Calf, face of Redskins, was dehumanized in woke narrative parroted by media
The Facebook post below comes straight from the mouth of one of the victims of racist cancel culture. It was shared with Thug Adams via Facebook on Monday.
Chris White Calf is a nephew of Blackfeet chief John Two Guns White Calf, who was the dignified face of the NFL’s Washington Redskins for 48 years.
Two Guns earned that honor after a life spent fighting to save indigenous heritage in his native Montana and who became a powerful force for native rights in Washington DC. He was so famous that his death in 1934 was honored with a nationwide obituary in the New York Times.
The Redskins portrait logo of White Calf was championed in later years by fellow Blackfeet leader “Blackie” Wetzel with support from Native Americans around the country. Two Guns became the face of the Redskins in 1972.
Chris and other members of the White Calf family then watched in horror over the past decade-plus as well-funded cancel culture racists dehumanized the Native American legend, pro football icon and family hero.
Cancel culture racists labeled Two Guns a “savage and clownish mascot,” erased his name, ripped his remarkable life story out of the history books and then fueled division and outrage by pitching a phony racist narrative to fans and media.
The White Calf family was shut out of the conversation. Nobody asked for their opinion. Nobody cared about wider Native American opinion.
Several surveys by reputable pollsters, including the Washington Post, showed that 90% of Native Americans opposed the effort to cancel the Redskins name and image. All their voices were silenced, replaced by a fraud manufactured controversy.
Proof of cancel-culture racism
How do we know cancel-culture racists pitched a phony narrative?
Because the far-left National Congress of American Indians (NCAI), the powerful, politically connected Washington DC-insider that manufactured the fake controversy, assassinated Two Guns and buried the body of his legacy right in front of the nation.
The NCAI, which counts among funders the Soros family’s Open Society Foundations and US taxpayers, produced an incendiary report on Redskins history and Native American sports logos in 2013 that incited outrage from fans, media, the White House and Capitol Hill.
The error-filled, 29-page report somehow failed to mention Two Guns White Calf, the face of the Redskins for 48 years.
Think about that. White Calf was the most famous Native American image in sports and the face on Redskins helmets for most of the NFL franchise’s history.
Yet the NCAI somehow failed to mention White Calf in a 29-page report on Native American images in sports, the face on Redskins helmets, and the NFL franchise’s history.
That’s not an oversight. That’s fraud. That’s evil. It appears the NCAI even scrubbed White Calf’s name from its website, which otherwise includes voluminous records of native history. That’s proof that cancel culture is an enemy of Native Americans, not a proponent.
Legacy media amplified phony story
Even worse: the mainstream media was complicit in the racist crime. One outlet after another dutifully parroted the story that the Redskins icon was a “savage and clownish” mascot. Few if any media reports mentioned that the face of the Redskins was a real man, let alone mention his name or cite his biography.
As the debate raged, Thug Adams as early as 2013, writing for other outlets, noted that the face of the Redskins was not a “savage and clownish” mascot, but a real Native American hero.
It appears that not ONE other outlet stopped to ask the obvious question: who was the man they called a “savage and clownish mascot” on the helmet of the Redskins?
Zero excuse for such widespread institutional media failure.
The racist lie manufactured by the fraud National Congress of American Indians, parroted by caged-bird lazy media outlets, finally trumped the truth.
White Calf’s portrait was erased from the NFL in 2020, years after it was erased from the fabricated narrative pitched by powerful but corrupt and racist cancel-culture organizations.
Cancel culture uses Hitler’s racist playbook
The NCAI, and its media lackeys, dehumanized White Calf before they killed his legacy. It’s right out of the playbook used by Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers’ Party to make Jews dispensable. They first dehumanized Jews, then they slaughtered them.
The White Calf family might have enjoyed the celebrity earned by their patriarch Two Guns. The NCAI, if it was not a fraud outfit, would have fought to honor White Calf and bring recognition to the Blackfeet nation and his family today.
They might have demanded the Redskins and the NFL share some of the wealth with the family of the man that was the face of a marquee franchise.
They did none of those things. They destroyed all of this history.
A family, a people abandoned, silenced
Chris White Calf, a firefighter, a Christian and proud, patriotic American, struggles today to raise a family with two autistic children on historic Blackfeet land in Montana.
Groups like the NCAI that purport to serve people like White Calf are invisible — Chris says he never heard of them. The NCAI appears instead to take money earmarked to aid families like the White Calfs and uses it for nefarious purposes.
The organization has spent “billions” of dollars over the years, according to one insider, blaming sports-team logos for social ills in Native communities - another preposterous claim the media failed to question. The NCAI and allies continue to erase any evidence of indigenous role models or positive influences on modern society.
The race war continues today in Massachusetts. Leftist radicals and their allies in the legislature are touting an entirely incorrect version of history to remove from the state seal and flag a Native American who has been an icon of Massachusetts statehood for 250 years.
Cancel culture doesn’t just ignore the White Calfs and others like them. They erase the legacy of deceased Native Americans they should honor and silence the voices of living Native Americans they should amplify.
What about The lies in 1972 ?
Do your h.w.