Roldo: Chief Wahoo Became A Triple Play of Stereotyping

Does viewing Chief Wahoo make one susceptible to accepting other damaging stereotypes? That is what's suggested by new research.

An article on a web site called "Miller-McCune, Smart Journalism, Real Solutions" explains the transference of stereotypes. The article has a link to the study in the Journal of Applied Social Psychology.

If viewing Chief Wahoo could result not only in damaging stereotyping of Native Americans but of African-Americans, Chinese-Americans and Hispanics, too, the symbol of the Cleveland Indians baseball team is a triple play of discrimination.

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Roldo Bartimole celebrates 50 years of news reporting this year. He published and wrote Point of View, a newsletter about Cleveland, for 32 years. He worked for the Plain Dealer and Wall Street Journal in the 1960s.

He was a 2004 Cleveland Journalism Hall of Fame recipient and won the national Joe Callaway Award for Civic Courage in 1991.