"Welcome to Cleveland, Home of the..."

When I initially saw the photos I was really impressed with the artist and his rendering of Chief Wahoo. Then it was more of a suprised reaction because I thought about it in a sense that I never had before, from the point of view of one of the people being portrayed and categorized just as the Indian is today, at Progressive Field. I always wondered why people had such a problem with the mascot of the Cleveland Indians, I mean to think about it in terms of like a tradition of good baseball and child hood memories was what came to mind when I thought about it. But after really looking at the images on the web site I can see why people could become offended by the image itself. I personally am more than half Italian and although the portrayl of the Italian with the chef hat and mustache was in my opinion one of the lighter drawings on the page, I still kind of cringed at it. That is not how I want to be thought of when people hear that I am Italian because me and my family look nothing like the guy in the picture and dont walk around with chefs hats on ever. I can compare these illustrations to Wu's "Yellow" because he is on the subway and even a little child thought of the portrayl of other people with the same ethnicity as Wu and struck a martial arts pose. I think that this artist does a great job of relaying his point and I think I like the way he relays it because it is not in words but yet there are so many that could have been said, especially pertaining to some of those illustrations. I can understand why the mascot is offensive to those people from Indian decent. I also think though that If I saw someone of Indian decent today I probably wouldnt know it unless they told me and that is because people tend to look different than how they are portrayed and two because in many cases today no one in the US is of one decent anymore. I can see both points of view on the issue, the offensive side and the side where it is believed the mascot and what he stands for is alright. I really liked this assignement though because it wasnt technical and the point across that I think the author was trying to, so in both aspect this piece was a great way to end our blog assignment.