evidence: To make sense of the Chiefs’ decision at a time when teams across the Midwest and the country are adopting monikers and imagery not dependent on appropriation, Midstory spoke with two experts. Jason Edward Black is a professor of Communication Studies at UNC Charlotte and the co-author of "Mascot Nation: The Controversy Over Native American Representations in Sports." Gaylene Crouser is the executive director of the Kansas City Indian Center and an organizer with Not In Our Honor, a group that protests the use of Indigenous imagery in sports. [...] "One of the things about sports, generally speaking, is that community-building piece of it, and that being able to have that chant or that fight song or that gesture or something that can really bring people together in a collective way," Crouser said. "It’s just really unfortunate that in Kansas City’s case, it’s so racist."