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High school students walk out over 'Redskins' name change
CNN ^ | Wed December 10, 2014 | Katia Hetter and Eliott C. McLaughlin

Posted on 12/14/2014 8:11:06 PM PST by MinorityRepublican

(CNN) -- The debate over the "Redskins" name in sports isn't just at the professional level.

Students at an Oklahoma City high school were refusing to go into Capitol Hill High School on Wednesday morning because their mascot no longer has the controversial name, according to CNN affiliate KOCO.

Dozens of students stood on the lawn outside the building rather than heading into class.

The city's public school board voted Monday to change the name in response to Native American students' feelings that the mascot name was offensive. The vote to change the mascot, which has been in place since the 1920s, was unanimous.

School administrators will immediately start phasing out the Redskins mascot and will create a committee of current and former students and community members to pick a new mascot before the end of the spring semester, spokeswoman Tierney Tinnin said in a statement, according to The Oklahoman.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Oklahoma
KEYWORDS: mascot; redskins
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To: MinorityRepublican

Maybe “The Weasels”?


41 posted on 12/14/2014 9:51:12 PM PST by SkyDancer (I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Only Leftists would think honoring a favorite sports team with a Native American name is racist.

Fans wear the team’s shirts, put the teams flags on their cars. Fans cheer the team name and Leftists think they would do all that for a slur???


42 posted on 12/14/2014 10:04:18 PM PST by RginTN
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To: MinorityRepublican

Stanford Indians had a hatchet.
Now they pretend that they are a bird can wield a hatchet.

stupid morons


43 posted on 12/14/2014 10:05:58 PM PST by bunkerhill7 (`("The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione."))
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To: Telepathic Intruder
How about then the "Blue Footed Boobies"


44 posted on 12/14/2014 10:13:38 PM PST by aquila48
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To: QT3.14
Navajo Nation Reservation In Az. Calls Its High School Football Team 'The Redskins'

Ha! What a great article.

Red Mesa (AZ) High School, which sits on the nation’s largest Native American reservation, is proud of its football team, named "The Redskins." The name was adopted by the school when one of its earliest students, Raymond Oldman, proposed it because he was a fan of the Washington Redskins.

To leftists, these aren't REAL Indians.

45 posted on 12/14/2014 10:44:44 PM PST by TChad (The Obamacare motto: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.)
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To: MinorityRepublican
THen suspend them for the rest of the law. They're breaking school rules and they're breaking the law.

I'm tired of this crap. They keep getting a pass because they're lefties. Enough of that!! Arrest them!

I'd be arrested if it was me. So much for Equal Justice Under Law!

46 posted on 12/14/2014 10:46:49 PM PST by HeartlandOfAmerica (An army of deer led by a lion is more to be feared than an army of lions, led by a deer.)
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To: aquila48
How about then the "Blue Footed Boobies"

And such attractive blue feet! :)

ala David Atenbourough

47 posted on 12/14/2014 10:51:51 PM PST by HeartlandOfAmerica (An army of deer led by a lion is more to be feared than an army of lions, led by a deer.)
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To: HeartlandOfAmerica

Sorry. Rest if the year.


48 posted on 12/14/2014 10:52:40 PM PST by HeartlandOfAmerica (An army of deer led by a lion is more to be feared than an army of lions, led by a deer.)
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To: Telepathic Intruder
“White Devils” has a nice ring to it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNSjt8lvWJA

49 posted on 12/14/2014 11:00:05 PM PST by cynwoody
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To: aquila48

That’s sure to offend a seabird or two. Even if it’s just one disgruntled malcontent of questionable sanity, everyone else should adjust their behavior to compensate.


50 posted on 12/14/2014 11:01:50 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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To: HeartlandOfAmerica

I didn’t know boobies had feet... or that they were blue.


51 posted on 12/14/2014 11:03:15 PM PST by aquila48
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To: IronJack

I would agree. Keep selling Redskins shirts...wear them to school and to games. Chant Redskins in the hallway as you walk from class to class. Put Redskins decals on your notebooks. Any game to take you down psychology in a class by teaching the terrible woes of saying Redskins....just start repeating the word in front of the teacher.


52 posted on 12/14/2014 11:43:34 PM PST by pepsionice
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To: SamAdams76

What is that? A Cave Fag???


53 posted on 12/14/2014 11:48:35 PM PST by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: aquila48

“Rednecks”


54 posted on 12/14/2014 11:51:12 PM PST by Pelham (Treason, not just for Democrats anymore)
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To: aquila48
Their marching band would be great. From Wiki: It is easily recognizable by its distinctive bright blue feet, which is a sexually selected trait. Males display their feet in an elaborate mating ritual by lifting their feet up and down while strutting before the female.
55 posted on 12/15/2014 2:48:22 AM PST by Portcall24
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To: F15Eagle

While they are at it, change Indiana, Indianapolis and Indianapolis Colts; North and South Dakota; Delaware; Seminole County, Florida and a whole host of other offensive names. Wait until PETA gets started.

Hereabouts, there are two schools that have awful nicknames and mascots: Auks and Pandas. BTW, what do they need a mascot if the students continue there protest.


56 posted on 12/15/2014 3:39:04 AM PST by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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To: txnativegop

So True....

My own little K-12 school on Cape Cod proudly wore the name “Blue Devils” with a little blue demon with pitchfork as the mascot. Apparently the wiccans thought that this was demeaning, so the mascot of 100 years was changed to the “Sharks”. Not was bad as the change of the Dartmouth College Indians to the Big Green, but the wiccans are happy now. And apparently no one cares what the sharks think.


57 posted on 12/15/2014 3:46:12 AM PST by T. Rustin Noone (the angel wanna wear my red shoes......)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Change the name to the Gippers and see if anyone objects...


58 posted on 12/15/2014 3:47:59 AM PST by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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To: MinorityRepublican

I think they should change the team to “The No Names”

Their mascot could be “Nothing”.


59 posted on 12/15/2014 3:53:15 AM PST by dforest
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To: MinorityRepublican

The story is the kids are UPSET about the name change. They ARE IN FAVOR OF BEING CALLED THE REDSKINS.


60 posted on 12/15/2014 4:11:40 AM PST by Brooklyn Attitude (Things are only going to get worse.)
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