{"id":59924,"date":"2020-07-08T18:15:23","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T18:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=59924"},"modified":"2020-07-08T18:24:38","modified_gmt":"2020-07-08T18:24:38","slug":"chiefs-patrick-mahomes-makes-his-voice-heard-he-should-talk-about-the-tomahawk-chop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=59924","title":{"rendered":"Chiefs\u2019 Patrick Mahomes makes his voice heard. He should talk about the Tomahawk Chop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/opinion\/opn-columns-blogs\/dave-helling\/article243495736.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>Chiefs\u2019 Patrick Mahomes makes his voice heard. He should talk about the Tomahawk Chop<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kansascity.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Kansas City Star<\/a><br \/>\n2020-06-15<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dhellingkc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Dave Helling<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<style>.mcclatchy-embed{position:relative;padding:40px 0 56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;max-width:100%}.mcclatchy-embed iframe{position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%}<\/style>\n<div class=\"mcclatchy-embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/latest-news\/article243457991.html\/video-embed\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kansas_City_Chiefs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kansas City Chiefs<\/a> quarterback <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Patrick_Mahomes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Patrick Mahomes<\/a> recently joined with other <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/National_Football_League\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NFL<\/a> players in condemning racism and demanding that the league recognize the players\u2019 right to protest injustice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shooting_of_Tamir_Rice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tamir Rice<\/a>,\u201d Mahomes says in the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/i\/status\/1268724815118163971\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">viral Black Lives Matter video<\/a>, referring to the 12-year-old African American killed by the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cleveland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cleveland<\/a> police.<\/p>\n<p>Mahomes\u2019 willingness to take a stand sent a potent message that resonated far beyond <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kansas_City,_Missouri\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kansas City<\/a>. \u201cHe has been the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/National_Football_League_Most_Valuable_Player_Award\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MVP of this league<\/a>. He has won a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Super_Bowl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Super Bowl<\/a>,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/profootballtalk.nbcsports.com\/2020\/06\/08\/doug-williams-patrick-mahomes-appearance-in-video-was-very-powerful\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said Doug Williams<\/a>, a former NFL quarterback who\u2019s African American. \u201cIt says a lot that he wanted to be involved in pushing for \u2026 change. It was very powerful.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/opinion\/opn-columns-blogs\/dave-helling\/article243495736.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes recently joined with other NFL players in condemning racism and demanding that the league recognize the players\u2019 right to protest injustice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,3015,23674,20],"tags":[18738,30990,30992,8952,22169,30710,5059,773,26777,30709,14660],"class_list":["post-59924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-native-americans","category-social-justice","category-usa","tag-black-lives-matter","tag-dave-helling","tag-doug-william","tag-football","tag-kansas-city","tag-kansas-city-chiefs","tag-kansas-city-star","tag-missouri","tag-national-football-league","tag-patrick-mahomes","tag-the-kansas-city-star"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59924"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59927,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59924\/revisions\/59927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}