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Walt Disney World Denounces High School Drill Team Guests After They Chant, ‘Scalp ‘Em!’ – Opinion

By Pluralist / March 19, 2022

Do you find half-time marches in the marching bands offensive? Do you find yourself offended by half-time marching band routines? If so, don’t be discouraged that Port Neches Groves High School has missed an opportunity to perform.

Walt Disney World was the scene of an incendiary event.

On March 15th, the school’s drill team got down at the Orlando amusement part, but there was a profound problem: The girls shouted, “Scalp ’em, Indians! Scalp ’em!”

Mouse now makes it abundantly clear, that this slogan supported racist stereotypes.

There might’ve been reason to find out beforehand what the team was going to chant — after all, they’re called the “Indianettes.”

And presumably, the mantra’s message was that American Indians are winners.

Still, Disney couldn’t in good conscience Let It Go.

Deadline Reports:

What’s been a bad stretch for Disney Parks’ self-declared “Inclusion” initiative got a little worse this week as video surfaced online of a high school cheer team from Texas performing a routine at Walt Disney World that contained racist stereotypes of Native Americans.

The gals donned “fringed costumes and did dance moves reminiscent of those seen in Native American cultures on the park’s Main Street this week.”

Tara Houska — a tribal attorney for the Ojibwe tribe as well as former Bernie Sanders advisor, tweetedProtest:

Cuz a bunch of kids in fringe chanting “scalp ‘em Indians, scalp ‘em” is honor, right?

All Natives attending [Port Neches-Groves Independent School District] should prolly just accept their classmates dehumanizing them cuz “tradition,” right?

Refrain from nostalgia

Shame on @DisneyParks for hosting such. Nostalgic racism IS RACISM.

He’s surely right that in past times, such a mantra would’ve been viewed as tribute.

In fact, so far as I can tell, over 90% of what we’re presently informed is “harmful” would’ve ruffled few (if any) feathers just mere decades ago.

Social evolution is a constant process.

Kelly Lynne D’Angelo — a writer for television comedy series Miracle Workers —You can also post disapproval.

Listed by IMDB as a “Native Haudenosaunee,” Kelly decried a dearth of broader disdain:

Native people account for 99% of people who voice their disgust at this. Can’t you see that’s the problem too?

 

Back to Deadline, at least the Indianettes didn’t go full Jim Crow:

Online commentators noted that Port Neches-Groves’ cheerleading team didn’t include their headdresses. They had worn them in previous performances. Ferris State University says such costumes are cultural appropriation. Others suggested that the costumes’ absence could be evidence Disney was evaluating the performance prior to it hitting Main Street. If so, they wondered, how did the rest of the routine get okay’d?

Disney responded to the uproar by issuing a statement via Jacqueewahler

“The live performance in our park did not reflect our core values, and we regret it took place. It was not consistent with the audition tape the school provided and we have immediately put measures in place so this is not repeated.”

Judging from headlines over the past few years, “core values,” defines an ever-narrowing standard.

In the current environment, can teams like Indianettes continue to thrive?

Eventually, perhaps, all mascots will make their way to a similar state as that of New York City’s The New School:

 

This is how the American new school system works.

-ALEX

 

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