Two New Jersey high schools remove Indians, Cowboys mascots

New York Post ^ | June 24, 2020 | By Elizabeth Rosner

[ConservativeStatement]

The sports teams at two New Jersey high schools in Bergen County will no longer be named the Indians and Cowboys.

At their two-hour virtual meeting on Monday night, the Pascack Valley Regional High School District Board of Education voted unanimously to remove the nickname of Pascack Hills, the Cowboy, and the mascot of Pascack Valley, the Indian, reported Pascack Hills Trailblazer.

[dfwgator]

Hey Jerry, better write that check to BLM, they’re coming after you.

[4yearlurker]

I graduated from Buena N.J. high school in 1975. Home of the Buena Chiefs!

[a fool in paradise]

So now cowboy is racist too?

[ConservativeStatement]

Columbus Blue jackets is interesting on so many levels. These admins and their ilk are reactionaries.

[ConservativeStatement]

Columbus Blue Jackets

[Red Badger]

Most cowboys in the Old West were freed slaves from the South................

[KarlInOhio]

In the future all teams will be named after shades of medium gray.

Gauntlet gray is out because it is too dark and a "gauntlet" might scare some people.

[left that other site]

You Got A Problem?

Indian Chief Motorcycle

To all those who disparage History because it offends them, I got two words for you. And they ain't "Happy Birthday."

ML/LTOS

[Magnum44]

Smithsonian historians estimate 1 in 4 cowboys were black, which isn’t most, but is not insignificant.

[left that other site]

But “Dorian Gray” never fades or stains.

There is a paint swatch in the attic that does it instead.

[Leaning Right]

> So now cowboy is racist too? <

At the very least it’s sexist. The name might have survived had it been “cowperson”.

Oh, wait. That won’t work either. Some vegetarian might get offended. This is tougher than I thought it would be. Maybe they should just call themselves ‘The Pascack Hills People’.

[ClearCase_guy]

Attendance to these games may go down. No one is going to make money scalping these tickets.

[dfwgator]

You said “scalping”!

You in big heap of trouble now!

[ConservativeStatement]

I'm reminded of the USFL team in San Antonio named the Gunslingers. It was owned by a very politically liberal individual named Clinton Manges. Imagine that nickname today?

[NCC-1701]

I was wondering when the Dallas Cowboys were going to be targeted. Maybe not in the too distant future. I know this article is about high school teams but you’ve got to expand to to EVERY team with an “offensive” sounding name.

[BenLurkin]

bttt

[a fool in paradise]

Brokeback Shepherds

[bankwalker]

[EQAndyBuzz]

I get triggered by the NY Yankees. They have to change their name.