“You gotta do something about those Braves…” Frank LaMere, a HoChunk Nation Elder and lifelong Native American Rights Activist, shared this at a Shabbat dinner I hosted in Atlanta in 2016 at the National Center for Civil and Human Rights. The event featured Native and Jewish leaders as well as elected officials. As we left, LaMere emphasized to me that he wanted to see the team’s mascot eliminated and the chop and chant condemned as racist depictions, and replaced with healthier representations of Natives in the media. Opinion | I’m a Native American Jew. The Braves’ ‘tomahawk chop’ is racist
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