This should be dropped immediately because it is a symbol of terrorism ... and because those people are so arrogant and uppity!
Posted on 09/19/2011 4:41:39 AM PDT by Zakeet
City officials in Osceola, a southwest Missouri town of about 950 people, are asking The University of Kansas to drop its “Jayhawk” mascot because the name refers to a group of domestic terrorists that nearly destroyed the city 150 years ago.
In a resolution approved earlier this week, the Osceola Board of Alderman also asks the University of Missouri to educate Kansas on the history of the “Border War” and let people know there was more to it than William Quantrill’s raid on Lawrence, Kan., in 1863.
Resentment still runs deep for residents of Osceola over the Sept. 22-23, 1861, siege by U.S. Sen. Jim Lane and a band of about 2,000 “Jayhawkers” that left a dozen men executed on the town square and the community itself a smoking ruin
“I grew up here, and it is all I heard about when I was attending grade school and high school,” Mayor Larry Hutsler told the Columbia Daily Tribune. “Everyone knew who was responsible.”
In the resolution, the city condemns “the celebration of this murderous gang of terrorists by an institution of ‘higher education’ in such a brazen and malicious manner.”
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The Osceola resolution asks Missourians to stop spelling Kansas or KU with a capital letter, since “neither is a proper name or a proper place.” In the resolution, both words are lowercase throughout.
Rick Reed, of Osceola, who brought the resolution to the aldermen, doesn’t think the measure will persuade The University of Kansas to dump the Jayhawk.
“I don’t expect them to do anything,” he said. “They are so arrogant and uppity.”
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This should be dropped immediately because it is a symbol of terrorism ... and because those people are so arrogant and uppity!
Shouldn’t it be U of K or, at least, UK?
Yea, right. And we are concerned about this cartoon character for what? This loon really needs to get a life and start complaining about things he can change now because he is never going to change anything about history.
Just another arrogant and uppity narcisit who thinks todays standards are retrogradable to what life was lived by 150 years ago.
I just look at things lihe this as another example that Americans have way too much time on their hands.
[Shouldn’t it be U of K or, at least, UK?]
No, because UK is the University of Kentucky Wildcats.
It's this kind of backward thinking that spurs the disciples of allah to look for revenge over some slight that happened hundreds of years ago.
It's like the bruthas being "mentally hurt" because of slavery and because of the Confederate Flag.
It was 150 years ago, get over it.
It seems that some of you folks don’t get the joke.
Obviously they didn’t rid the landscape of whiny little pricks.
Wouldn’t want to confuse it with The United Kingdom, Ukrania, or the University of Kentucky.
My point is, it’s like if your name is John Smith and you say your initials are SJ
They can’t even get rid of the right mascot in their home state;
http://www.tigerdroppings.com/rant/p/28036283/K-State-ECO-CAT.aspx
Rawk, chawk, politically-correct Hawk.
Now that’s got a real ring to it.
Just a bunch of retro-Confederates who are angry that most of the people in Kansas wanted to form a Free state.
I starting to think we should deport American Citizens...?
I’m starting to think we should deport American Citizens..?
Actually, the resolution does suggest a solution to the problem- use a lower case “k”. So the University of Kentucky, United Kingdom et al, would be UK and the University of Kansas would be Uk or, better yet, just use a lower case “u”, as well- uk
And you grew up to be a politician and a dinglebob. What a surprise! Imagine what you might have been if you'd heard about physics, calculus, or Shakespeare ...
I don’t think the body count stacks up to Lawrence, which was also burned to the ground.
And how come the Missourians coveniently forgot Centralia and Bloody bill Anderson, Baxter Springs, and all the scalped bodies the Bushwhackers left behind?
I don’t believe that large birds ever attacked Missouri.
KU football is enough of a punishment for Kansas.
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