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Gov. Brown bans 'Redskins' name at public schools
Press Democrat ^ | 12 Oct 2015

Posted on 10/12/2015 1:01:14 PM PDT by rey

LOS ANGELES — Four California schools will be forced to change mascots after Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation barring public schools from using the "Redskins" name for sports teams.

It was one of three sports-related bills Brown approved Sunday. He also signed a measure that bans using or possessing smokeless tobacco on the playing field at professional baseball parks and another that recognizes competitive cheerleading as a high school sport.

The mascot legislation will prevent public schools from using a term that American Indians regard as offensive. It goes into effect in 2017.

Only four schools still use the name. Messages seeking comment from school officials were not immediately returned Monday, a federal holiday.

Brown rejected separate legislation that bans naming parks, schools and other public property after Confederate leaders.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: brown; california; columbusday; godsgravesglyphs; governormoonbeam; jerrybrown; losangeles; moonbeam; nativeamerican; ncaa; redskins; sacramento
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Do people ever consider there are things that can't be or shouldn't be legislated? In my discussion with average people, they believe that government can make a law about anything and tax anything.

Not long ago there was a federal legislature who wrote a bill limiting how loud late night commercials could be.

1 posted on 10/12/2015 1:01:15 PM PDT by rey
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So now the Governor is the final authority on what high school team names will be allowed?


2 posted on 10/12/2015 1:03:22 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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His state is overrun with illegal Mexican and South American refuse even their motherlands don’t want, his state is inundated with egregious extra costs for entitlements, schooling, social and criminal costs, and a plethora of other ills, and this a$$hole bans the name “Redskins” from school teams. Great job there, Brownie.


3 posted on 10/12/2015 1:04:32 PM PDT by Gaffer
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To: rey

At one time the 14th Amendment placed limitations on the power of states over the people. Now, the concepts of a constitutionally limited government and the Rule of Law are dead letters.


4 posted on 10/12/2015 1:04:56 PM PDT by henkster (Liberals forget Dickens' kids forged an Empire on which the sun never set.)
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Over 100 years of the Team Mascot locally, gone with a whim and a pen.


5 posted on 10/12/2015 1:07:01 PM PDT by easternsky
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Gov. Brown bans 'Redskins' name at public schools

Because Governor "moonbeam" has absolutely nothing more important to worry about.

6 posted on 10/12/2015 1:07:39 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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California Uber Alles.


7 posted on 10/12/2015 1:07:53 PM PDT by dfwgator
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How about calling them the "whiteskins"?

I wonder who would be outraged, and why?

8 posted on 10/12/2015 1:08:09 PM PDT by oldbrowser (The kangaroos have taken over the supreme court.)
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The Reseda Long-haired Make-up Wearing Alcoholics?


9 posted on 10/12/2015 1:09:23 PM PDT by EEGator
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Redskins is offensive to him but not giving free healthcare, drivers licenses and the right to vote to to criminal foreign invaders.


10 posted on 10/12/2015 1:09:27 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (B. Hussein Obama: 20 acts of Treason and counting.)
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Well...as long as his priorities are in the right order. PUKE

11 posted on 10/12/2015 1:11:50 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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That is not the worst bill that Brown signed in the last week. He signed another bill prohibiting all concealed firearms on college campuses. I assume that included off duty police officers. He also signed a bill that requiring all people getting California drivers licenses get registered to vote, unless they opt out. I think the SEIU purple shirts working in the DMV offices were doing that already. Of course the illegal aliens will be registered as permanent vote by mail voters, with the ballots mailed to SEIU controlled addresses.


12 posted on 10/12/2015 1:14:40 PM PDT by forgotten man
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Read those vaunted achievements one more time, and then consider that Gov. Brown is thinking of running for President.

And if he jumps in he could become the Democrat frontrunner.

Then be very afraid for your country.

Not like California has real problems to solve or anything.


13 posted on 10/12/2015 1:18:15 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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I would say 'redskin' already means white people as the only race that gets REAL red skin, is whites, ergo I am highly offended by the term Redskin! Where is my compensation! I am so sick of this racism and oppression against me by the man!


14 posted on 10/12/2015 1:18:17 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (B. Hussein Obama: 20 acts of Treason and counting.)
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There is a guy a couple of doors up the street who is always wearing an SEIU t-shirt. He is a singularly unpleasant fellow. The only guy on the block that you would not particularly care to have as a neighbor.

Always mysterious goings on in and around his garage late at night. Trucks dropping off and picking up packages. Other purple shirts milling about. Just sayin’.


15 posted on 10/12/2015 1:20:14 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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Nobody. Even conservatives have subconsciously bought into the rhetoric by using demeaning descriptions of our white skin, such as “pasty white”. It may seem a little insignificant thing, but if only the right understood the power of language and the redefinition of words as well as the left does, they wouldn’t succumb to this mess. I am white, I am pale-complexioned, I don’t tan and don’t try to or want to, and I would never describe my pale complexion as “pasty”. It is the complexion which women for thousands of years tried to have, and it is healthier to boot. If I need to use an adjective for my pale complexion, it will be something like “lily pale” or “magnolia texture” :)


16 posted on 10/12/2015 1:22:06 PM PDT by mrsmel (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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But just think about how good he feels about himself for doing this. He’s a “nice person”. A leftwing kook but still a “nice person”. LOL! It gives him warm fuzzies.


17 posted on 10/12/2015 1:22:13 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Normal people don't vote Democrat.)
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Don't see how a wealthy, powerful white man can be permitted to have the last name “Brown”.

#BrownNamesMatter
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18 posted on 10/12/2015 1:22:55 PM PDT by Bronzewound (© 2015 GOP. A Timid Little Division Of The Democrat Party.)
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Moonbeam strikes again.


19 posted on 10/12/2015 1:23:54 PM PDT by Daveinyork ("Trusting government with money and power is like trusting teenaged boys with whiskey and car keys",)
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My late mother always called pale,healthy complexions like yours “peaches and cream”.

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20 posted on 10/12/2015 1:24:06 PM PDT by Mears
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