Posted on 08/10/2019 4:44:06 AM PDT by Levy78
A group of mothers started an online petition to change the logo and the mascot at one of the elementary schools in the Round Rock Independent School District.
The mascot at Double File Trail Elementary School is currently the Braves.
Its represented by a logo of a round, smiling cartoon face that has long hair and a headband with a feather sticking out of it.
Heather Snaman told KXAN that that logo has always bothered her since she started taking her daughter to school there more than three years ago.
Its a great school. Weve had great teachers and great administrators, and I really dont want to take away any of that, Snaman said. I just want the logo and the mascot to be something thats also at that level.
Her daughter wont be a student at Double File Trail anymore, but Snaman created a petition with two other women whose children are enrolled there.
(Excerpt) Read more at kxan.com ...
No friends but she’s asking for birthday donations to the ACLU. Sad.
You name a team what you name it because there is something about what you named it after that you admire and want to be and have for yourself, whether it’s Tigers or Eagles or Braves or whatever.
What does she have against the native Americans? The Comanche and Apache ruled the area of Austin and Round Rock for centuries. What a racist!
Just plain weird.
Abbott is all out against the Austin mayor with his allowing the homeless to camp and poo anywhere just like SF.
Let it be known to Native American artists that it’s offensive for their works to be displayed in white privilege homes and businesses and see what happens.
Sam Bass! Growing a bunch of little outlaws who will die young is closer than you think.
It’s also an interesting school name (”Double File Trail Elementary School”) in that it doesn’t honor a person or some local feature, but a trail wide enough for two people abreast. I suppose the “Double File” name also respects Indian trails from centuries ago, so if “Braves” has to go, then shouldn’t “Double File” have to go, too?
They could rename the place the “Bland Gray Generics.”
I once hiked the entire width of the Appalachian Trail.
Whew! I’m exhausted just thinking about it. How long did that take?
Abbott is all out against the Austin mayor with his allowing the homeless to camp and poo anywhere just like SF.
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Glad to hear for sure. But, wondering if he (Abbott) has any authority to put a stop to it?
I am beginning to question the wisdom of women sufferage.
So that’s Round Rock in Texas, where the city Indians live.
Here’s Round Rock in Arizona, where the country Indians live:
County: Apache District: Red Mesa
School: Round Rock Elementary Mascot: Braves (Hmmmm)
School: Red Mesa HS Mascot: Redskins
So, lighten up while you still can.
When you grill a sacred cow, you get holy hamburgers.
Reminds me of the guy who changed his name
from Elmer Eatsadick to Lester Eatsadick.
They’re changing the wrong thing. What kind
of a name is Double File?
Oh, hell no. I was raised around Apache and Navajo kids, so realized early why they are called warrior tribes.
N.B.: Apache girls are often honey badgers in human form.
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