You don't get to decide if it's offensive. It's deeply offensive. Honestly, I think you'd be surprised how many people can see right off it's clearly bigotry.

You can decide that's the example you want to set. For your kids. For your town. To the world. You have. That example was clearly set for you.

Now, you can say "that's just the way it is." That's been said about plenty of bigoted forms of oppression. Every once in a while though, people — even people who came up from within a system like that — realize they could do better. It's even happened within baseball before.

There will be a time when everyone recognizes Chief Wahoo is a repugnant vestige of an ugly, and proud, institution of white supremacy. You and Cleveland Indians fans like you, who think you're not racist despite your loyalty to your own particular brand of white supremacy, may wonder why it was ever so impirtant to you.

Me and, as you say, the few people that agree with me, will try not to judge you too harshly. You're just backward. It's all you know, yet.