Today in class we talked about racism, and the steryotypes put on people of different ethnicities, and it reminded me of something that i never even thought about as a racist comment. Growing up in cincinnati, ohio. my family and i were always huge bengals fans. The bengals slogan is "Who Dey" which comes from "who dey think gonna beat dem bengals". This slogan came from african americans, or how they supposedly would say that sentence. This slogan is written on shirts, signs, and all other propaganda that the bengals put out, is yelled at the games, and its also the name of the bengals mascot. This slogan started in the 1970's, and you would think that by now, the bengals would have gotten rid of this steryotypical and racist statement. Many highschools who have names like "redskins" have had to change their names because their racist against Native Americans. If the government is making highschools get rid of their racist names, shouldnt they also be making our football teams change their racist slogans? The bengals have a lot of african american fans, and they probably find this statement very offensive. The phrase shows bad grammer, and is spelled like they would supposedly say it. It doesnt make african americans seem very intelligent. Now that i think about it, i dont really feel comfortable saying something that is so offensive to so many people.
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First off i would like to say, how do you know that african american people find the slogan offensive? if people yell it at games and people wear it on t-shirts then they must be fine with it. And second i dont think the slogan shows that african americans are not intelligent at all, because it is just words that anyone could say or spell that way.
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