Should the sports world ban indigenous team names and logos?
Pop culture critic Jesse Wente spoke out against 'racist' logos this week
From Chief Wahoo, former mascot for the Cleveland Indians baseball team, to the NFL's Washington Redskins, indigenous sports mascots and logos have been a controversial part of the sporting landscape for years.
Jesse Wente, a Toronto-based pop culture critic of Anishinabe descent, spoke out against that practice earlier this week after Toronto Star columnist Rosie DiManno wrote a story defending teams named afterindigenous groups, or who use caricatures of aboriginal peopleas their mascots.
"I do think indigenous logos are racist, because they're a byproduct ultimately of colonialism," Wentetold CBC Radio'sMetro Morning.
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