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4 Connecticut school districts will break state law to keep Native American mascots
Yahoo ^ | June 15, 2022, | Liz Roscher

Posted on 06/15/2022 6:10:24 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement

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To: ConservativeStatement
I think it would be great if EVERY team representing D.C. or any other liberal city be renamed the “CUCKS”...

It would solve the stigma of competing names and any hostilities that might be assigned to them...

that way Sports reporters could just refer to the city name...

as in Los Angeles lost an overtime thriller against D.C...however LA Cuck Lebron James scored all the points for the LA Cuck team...../s

21 posted on 06/15/2022 7:30:17 PM PDT by M-cubed (The MSM is now the 4th Branch of Government.....)
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Why make it so tough. Just ask the schools to have the mascot identify as a rabbit, or a dove, or anything they want. And if the government doesn’t like that then they can change the costume and have the new character identify with the original Indian name so it may be a rabbit identifying as warrior. It isn’t that difficult. And it is no longer a warrior that way.

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22 posted on 06/15/2022 7:37:29 PM PDT by whitney69
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This seems like an attempt to wipe out traces of our native American heritage.


23 posted on 06/15/2022 7:49:36 PM PDT by xxqqzz
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To: Redcitizen

From what I’ve heard I think you are in the majority.


24 posted on 06/15/2022 7:56:12 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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[...] the state law which bars schools with Native American mascots from receiving tribal funding [...]

Unbelievable!

How do you define "N.A. mascot?"

What if the mascots are "The Warriors?"

Is that enough to qualify as "Native American?"

What if the mascots wear "frontier-sy" garb (leather jacket with frills, etc.)? What if they have straight, jet-black hair? At what point does a mascot "cross the line" and become a "N.A. mascot?"

Conversely: What if the school's sports team is called "The Palefaces?"

Regards,

25 posted on 06/15/2022 11:21:25 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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Wonder what North haven will do. Our mascot was the North Haven Indian.


26 posted on 06/16/2022 5:31:16 AM PDT by KosmicKitty (i am not responsible for gremlins attacking this tagline)
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I think you are correct. This is an attempt to erase all memory of the respect people had for the Indians.
To further the lie that America has only had hatred and disrespect toward them.
Why would any town or school name their mascot after a thing or people that they look down on? They do not, they name it after something they respect.


27 posted on 06/16/2022 7:17:46 AM PDT by penguinhunter
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The Pequots need to get rid of the word Pequot, because their tribe is named after themselves. Also, get rid of the name “Connecticut” since it is culturally appropriated from the word for “land along big river”.


28 posted on 06/16/2022 7:26:21 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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How, in a free country...theoretically free speech, can mascots be banned? Names made illegal? On its face, this is fascist lawmaking.


29 posted on 06/16/2022 4:31:18 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts ((“If there are no absolutes by which to judge society, then society is absolute.” Francis Schaeffer,)
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Sort of dumb with the state name being “Connecticut”.

U.S. state, originally the name of the river, said to be from Mohican (Algonquian) quinnitukqut “at the long tidal river,” from *kwen- “long” + *-ehtekw “tidal river” + *-enk “place.”


30 posted on 06/17/2022 8:53:30 AM PDT by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Support our troops by praying for their victory. )
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