Posted on 07/27/2015 6:53:52 AM PDT by bob_denard
ALBANY -- They removed the Confederate battle flag from South Albany High School 20 years ago. A Confederate soldier does not dance during football games. This year, one of the school's 10 black students led the cheers.
But every year, South Albany students and alumni ask themselves: Can we still call ourselves the Rebels?
The world has changed in the 40 years since the Linn County school broke away from Albany Union High. Earlier this month, South Carolina lawmakers even removed the Confederate battle flag from their state capitol grounds.
As South Albany has tried to craft a more generic Rebel, the community that surrounds it still fights to keep or give up the mascot. It's a symbol of the underdog, blue-collar workers they are, some say. It's offensive, others say, and has even scared off sports opponents from urban schools.
The perennial debate brings up questions of racism, school pride and the power of symbols. Can their mascot, symbolized by a Civil War-era soldier with a floppy mustache, ever signify something other than a uniformed defender of slavery?
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They can call themselves the 1776 Rebels and use the 13 star Flag? They better hurry, before someone finds that offensive too.
NAACP wants SC high school’s “Rebels” mascot name changed
http://wbtw.com/2015/07/21/naacp-want-sc-high-schools-rebels-mascot-name-changed/
They could change their mascot to James Dean and be rebels without a cause
You mean Rebels without a Clue.
I want the name of the NAACP changed .... COLORED PEOPLE?
Even scared off sports opponents from other schools? Are you kidding me?
Not one in a hundred even know the true meaning and history of the CBF.
But when American Indians are used as mascots, according to the folks who hate the Battle Flag of the Army of Northern Virginia, this supposedly shows contempt for the group “mascotized”. Ergo using the Rebels as a mascot is showing contempt for the Confederacy, and is anti-racist. If not, leave the folks who want to honor the hardihood of North America’s aboriginal population alone and keep all the Indian mascots.
Liberal canard. 8% of the population owned slaves in 1860. Try getting someone to fight for something that they probably will never have. The men of the Confederacy fought for States rights against what was a tyrannical Federal imposition.
Why not just go for the jugular and tear out all the pages from all the history books from 1860-1865.
Title the black pages as...
“The years that shall not be mentioned.”
“Ye villains, ye Rebels, disperse; Damn you, disperse!”
Americans have always had a rebellious streak.
Could they change the team name to the COLORED PEOPLE? Would that satisfy the National Association for the Advancement of COLORED PEOPLE?
Could they change the team name to the COLORED PEOPLE? Would that satisfy the National Association for the Advancement of COLORED PEOPLE?
The United Negro College Fund prefers to stay out of this debate.
Give what they want and the bar immediately gets raised.
Exactly like the homosexuals. They will never stop.
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