Disney Regrets Drill Team Saying 'Scalp 'Em Indians'
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Via: john-russell • 2 years ago • 9 commentsBy: Katherine Huggins (Mediaite)
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Disney regrets the performance from a visiting Texas high school drill team that sparked outrage over the team chanting "scalp 'em, Indians," a company spokesperson said.
The performance by Port Neches-Grove High School's "Indianettes" drill team earlier this week "did not reflect our core values, and we regret it took place," spokeswoman Jacquee Wahler said in a statement to the Associated Press .
In the performance, the team was "seen tapping their hands over their mouths and whooping, as a drum pounds in the background, in what is stereotypically called a 'war cry,'" the AP reported.
Cuz a bunch of kids in fringe chanting "scalp 'em Indians, scalp 'em" is honor, right?
And any Natives who attend @pngisd should prolly just accept their classmates dehumanizing them cuz "tradition", right?
Shame on @DisneyParks hosting this. Nostalgic racism is RACISM. pic.twitter.com/ELsJHRgJlw
— tara houska ᔖᐳᐌᑴ (@zhaabowekwe) March 18, 2022
We are appalled by the videos surfacing from a recent performance at Disney's Magic Kingdom. The chants are deeply insensitive and only reopen deep scars from a painful time in history for Native communities across this country. #NotYourMascothttps://t.co/tQgud0iyiG
— ADL (@ADL) March 18, 2022
Wahler said in the statement that the school's audition tape was inconsistent with the actual performance, and that Disney has implemented additional protocols to ensure similar performances do not occur in the future.
According to 12NewsNow, an ABC/NBC affiliated station in Beaumont, Texas, Disney requested at the last minute that the team perform without headdresses.
Port Neches-Groves school district said the team has performed eight times at Disney and issued the controversy in a statement.
"We are committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion in our school district. Our district is nearing 100 years old, and our Board of Trustees is committed to always making the best decisions for our students, staff, and the communities of Port Neches and Groves," the district said.
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These teenage girls dont know what they are doing.
When "scalp em" is one of your cheers you are teetering on racism. I blame the adults who coach this group.
The girls bear the responsibility also. They are not like five years old and this topic has flooded social media for some time now so they can't feign ignorance.
Stupidity and ignorance abound at that school.
Sounds like they have been full of shit for the past 100 years.
Our high school is the Biloxi Indians.
They use to do a tomahawk chop at games.
Put us on this reservation
Took away our ways of life
The tomahawk and the bow and knife
Took away our native tongue
And taught their English to our young
And all the beads we made by hand
Are nowadays made in Japan
Cherokee tribe
So proud to live
So proud to die
Locked us on this reservation
Though I wear a shirt and tie
I'm still part redman deep inside
Cherokee tribe
So proud to live
So proud to die
Cherokee nation will return, will return
Will return, will return, will return
So then, how is this Disney’s fault?
So...in a shocking turn of events.... the subset of Americans who love to be offended over nothing are, once again, offended over nothing.
Its not nothing, opinions like yours, outdated and unperceptive, are nothing.