I'll address this point by point but first here's screenshots of your tweets in case you delete them.

There's nothing vaguely negative about that comment. It was a targeted attack using disgusting stereotypes. You say that was sarcasm but in the next breath dismiss our concerns as something that doesn't actually matter. You can't have it both ways.
2/
The National Congress of American Indians, the largest organization addressing Native issues, vocally opposes Native mascots. They've passed resolutions about the harmful effects of their stereotypical imagery. They began this campaign in 1968.

ncai.org/proudtobe
AIM protest of Atlanta and the chop. Fay Vincent & Stan Kasten were both asked about it and demurred. 1991.

Russell Means of AIM and Juanita Helphrey of The Committee of 500 Years of Dignity and Resistance. It's about Cleveland but at 5:50 Atlanta is mentioned. In the last minute the chop. 1994.

The Inter-Tribal Council of the 5 Civilized Tribes, which includes the Muscogee Nation on whose ancestral lands Atlanta plays, passed a resolution opposing sports mascots. 2001.

aistm.org/2001.civilized…
The opposition isn't new. It's been at least FIFTY THREE YEARS. Society has done such a great job of erasing us as people and replacing us with mascots and stereotypes it made it easy for you to ignore us because we only mattered to you as seventh inning stretch entertainment.
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When you say that without non-Natives keeping us relevant we'd fade into history with our only legacy being alcohol and casinos because we've asked to be treated with the same dignity and humanity as everyone else
I am under no obligation to be respectful about anything about or important to you.

That's not hypocrisy. That's you earning the response you got.

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ATLANTA FANS ARE NOT RACIST: A Thread

Now that I have your attention:
I mean not *all* Atlanta fans are racist.

The @braves name, chop, and chant are 100% racist. As is Rob Manfred. As is anyone who perpetuates stereotypes that denigrate Natives.

#thetimeisnow #changethename
What people don't understand is that you can do and participate in things that are racist without being racist yourself. It's your understanding of what you are doing or participating in that makes the difference.
Lets talk about your Aunt Bea.

Aunt Bea loves baseball and is a huge ATL fan. She became a fan when they were the Boston Bees because it tickled her that they shared a name. Her fandom continued when they became the Boston @braves, then the Milwaukee braves, and now as Atlanta.
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I was going to answer individually but, shockingly, Atlanta fans vocabulary is really limited so they just repeat each other. Here's my response.

Yes I: am fat, have blue bangs, could eat more salads

No I: am not a guy, white, going to fuck myself/die

Oh! And...
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What I'd really like is to go back to not having to talk about this but I made a promise to my kid in 2014. She was told in a college class that racism against Natives didn't matter because of the Washington, Cleveland, Atlanta, and KC names and mascots.
I promised her that I'd do everything in my power to make sure she never had to hear anything like that again.

I failed.
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The other night the @Braves dimmed the lights so their fans could once again perform the disgusting tomahawk chop, lit by their phone flashlights and amplified by their faclke Native chant. This despite years of Natives opposing the chop as racist.
Speaking as a Mvskoke and Semvnole violently targeted by @Braves fans for vocally opposing the use of Native iconography by Atlanta I can tell you it doesn't matter what we say about it.
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Yes. I described the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians using the word "pet" .

Since some Atlanta fans are using their cerebral cortices to remember the tomahawk chant instead of learning how actual words work I'll explain, not that they'll bother to admit they misunderstood.
English contains 8 parts of speech that have specific functions in a sentence: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions, and articles.

For our purposes we'll focus on nouns and adjectives.
This is the sentence Atlanta fans are upset with. The contentious portion is "pet tribe", which people wrongly believe I used to compare EBCI with animals.

"Atlanta can buy a pet tribe in the Eastern Band of Cherokee but until this ends and they #changethename they are too."
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CW: Boarding schools, genocide, colonization

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Hesci Estonko. Hello, how are you? My name is Amy and I am enrolled Mvskoke, Semvnole, and daughter of Kaccvlke.
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