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Coachella Valley High School Drops Controversial Arab Mascot
AP) ^
| August 31, 2014 7:27 PM
Posted on 08/31/2014 7:39:29 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The hook-nosed, snarling mascot who wears a head scarf did not appear at the schools season opening football game Friday. A belly-dancing genie that often appears with the mascot was also retired.
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The Arab mascot has existed since the 1920s to recognize the desert regions reliance on date farming, a traditionally Middle Eastern crop....
The school district refused to change the schools Arabs nickname, but agreed to redesign the Arab face on the school logo.
(Excerpt) Read more at losangeles.cbslocal.com ...
TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: arabs; coachellavalley; mascot
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posted on
08/31/2014 7:39:29 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
How sensitive of them.
(must be said in a Brahman accent).
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posted on
08/31/2014 7:40:28 PM PDT
by
Westbrook
(Children do not divide your love, they multiply it.)
To: BenLurkin
Haha.
It must have been annoying to recall the mascot every time they pulled up to a pump to "fill'er up."
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
08/31/2014 7:41:35 PM PDT
by
Sybeck1
(Thad is a thud for me)
To: BenLurkin
There is an “Arab” Alabama. One of the prettiest girls I have ever seen was from there. Also an Arab, Florida tho it is just a place in the road.
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posted on
08/31/2014 7:42:53 PM PDT
by
yarddog
(Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
To: BenLurkin
Did they have to change their school fight song too?
You know, Ahab the Arab...?
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posted on
08/31/2014 7:48:46 PM PDT
by
Flycatcher
(God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
To: Flycatcher
I worked in the Coachella Valley one summer.
Unfortuantely girls there do not have bells on their fingers and bells on their toes.
And definitely no bone in their nose.
Oh ho.
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posted on
08/31/2014 7:51:33 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a stBut is it grammatically catement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: All
Just do like they did on South Park and name every team the “Roughriders”.
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posted on
08/31/2014 7:52:55 PM PDT
by
rockrr
(Everything is different now...)
To: Westbrook
Looks harmless to me.
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posted on
08/31/2014 7:54:29 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a stBut is it grammatically catement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: BenLurkin; GeronL
I worked in the Coachella Valley one summer. Unfortuantely girls there do not have bells on their fingers and bells on their toes. And definitely no bone in their nose. #RINGSONTHEIRNOSESATCOACHELLA
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posted on
08/31/2014 7:54:31 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(ISIS has started up a slave trade in Iraq. Mission accomplshed, Barack, Mission accomplished.)
To: a fool in paradise
Not locals.
I guaranty it.
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posted on
08/31/2014 7:55:01 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a stBut is it grammatically catement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: BenLurkin; Slings and Arrows
Next thing you know Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs will be banned.
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posted on
08/31/2014 7:56:01 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(ISIS has started up a slave trade in Iraq. Mission accomplshed, Barack, Mission accomplished.)
To: rockrr
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posted on
08/31/2014 7:59:41 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a stBut is it grammatically catement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: a fool in paradise
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posted on
08/31/2014 8:01:00 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
("Your Daddy Was Drunk and Your Mama Was Lonely" - http://youtu.be/4HYy62qiOwA)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
08/31/2014 8:05:54 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
To: BenLurkin
My local H.S. was the Pekin Chinks (Pekin, Il.) until P.C. forced them to change to the unimaginative, “Pekin Dragons”.
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posted on
08/31/2014 8:06:36 PM PDT
by
Graybeard58
(Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.)
To: Slings and Arrows
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posted on
08/31/2014 8:31:33 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a stBut is it grammatically catement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: BenLurkin
Looks harmless to me.
Those girls walking with the mascot don't look harmless at all. 16 will get you 20.
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posted on
08/31/2014 8:50:04 PM PDT
by
Veggie Todd
(The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. TJ)
To: Graybeard58
My local H.S. was the Pekin Chinks (Pekin, Il.) until P.C. forced them to change to the unimaginative, Pekin Dragons.They should have adopted a male cat as their mascot - then they could be the Pekin Toms.
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posted on
08/31/2014 8:54:02 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
("Your Daddy Was Drunk and Your Mama Was Lonely" - http://youtu.be/4HYy62qiOwA)
To: yarddog
I spent part of my childhood in Arab, AL on top of Brindlee Mountain. Cool place that will never be overrun with Muslimes.
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posted on
08/31/2014 9:04:28 PM PDT
by
ohioman
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