This month, I’ve got some really big news for you. Mind-blowing, completely out-there news: America is racist.

This racism permeates our society further than police aggression and ridiculous presidential candidates. It is so deeply ingrained that it is even embedded in our sports.

About two weeks ago, the Chicago Cubs WON the World Series against the Cleveland Indians.

While ESPN showed a big “C” as Cleveland’s logo, it was not hard to find a fan donning apparel with Chief Wahoo.

After years of struggling to find a name that stuck, Cleveland finally chose the Indians after the 1914 baseball season because they wanted either (a) to be piggyback off the successful Atlanta Braves or (b) to honor a Sockalexis, a beloved Native American player in 1897.

Despite disagreement on how the name was chosen, writings about Sockalexis are significant to point out. In the newspaper, The Plain Dealer, the following lines were published about Sockalexis:

“Pie and doughnut padded stomach, Wiping all the glaring war paint, Off his nasal in a jiffy.”

So yes, Cleveland loved their Native American baseball player, but we cannot ignore the blatant racial profiling composed in this poem. Judging by the time period, this piece of writing wasn’t viewed as offensive. However, today, it is. And we shouldn’t defend it.

If the name“Indians” was not racist enough, let’s look at Cleveland’s “logo,” Chief Wahoo.

In 1932, The Plain Dealer published a cartoon featuring a gross caricature of a Native American by Fred G. Reinert to highlight Cleveland’s win from the night before. Unsurprisingly, it looks very similar to Chief Wahoo and it garnered a positive reception. Based on this success, The Plain Dealer continued with its cartoons of the Native American.

But let’s be real, I understand how a caricature of an Indian became the mascot for a team called the “Indians.” So how did the title “Chief Wahoo” come to be?

Well, in the early 1900s, “Wahoo” was a “common nickname for any generic Indian character,” according to beltmag.com. However, the title “Chief Wahoo” did not make print until 1950.

Because of the original print time, it is not difficult to surmise that the original “Chief Wahoo” was Allie Reynolds, a pitcher who, ironically, had greater success with the Yankees than the Indians.

While in New York, much of his success was published in Cleveland under the moniker “Chief Wahoo,” “Wahoo” or “old Wahoo.” From then on, Chief Wahoo as we know him today was born.

Oh, and I might add, Chief Wahoo has not always looked the same. Since his first depiction, his nose has gotten smaller (10 points for reducing racism!) and his skin has gotten a heck of a lot redder (20 points for further promoting racism!!).

But they are not the only ones to have featured a racist logo. Take a good long look at school, folks, because not too long ago, we were the Redskins. Yes, we were called a Native American slur and we did have racist caricatures of Native Americans around Central.

However, let me remind you: we haven’t had that nickname since 1992. We recognized our faults and we changed. Native Americans spoke up and told the public about its wrongdoing. And despite backlash, District 203 did the right thing and changed its mascot to the Redhawks.

Many people who support the racial mascots will say that it is not racist because they are “honoring” that race. But really, is carrying a Native American stuffed animal on a stick to football games “honoring?” Because Central did that. Is wearing a giant picture of a Native American with obnoxiously exaggerated features playing off of racial stereotypes “honoring?” Because Cleveland does that.

As people who are NOT a certain race, we do NOT, under any condition, have the right to tell people of that race what is or isn’t racist.

While “Indians” may be a name of historical significance and not intended to be racist, it is. Regardless of how it was judged at the time, the clock has continued to tick and the Earth has continued to spin, and now we are in the year 2016. So wake up. We’re not in 1945 anymore It’s not okay to be racist. If we can’t even control racism at the sports level, how the hell are we supposed to stop it in the government?