Poor little LaMallori. All of the crying will cause the sea levels to rise and flood Lousiana.
This should not surprise us. For years, mascots have come under attack and have been dropped, no matter that the criticisms were absurd. The Washington Redskins is the only team that I recall of saying NO. And they were even criticized by members of U.S. Congress. iirc, Sen. Reid went after them.
William T. Sherman would be turning over in his grave for seeing where LSU went after his leadership.
Any southern name for anything that predates about 1960 is ipso facto racist and Southern and must be eradicated. In ten years I expect that any visible sign that there was a Southern history at all and any references to anything of the southland that is from a time before the RE-RE construction will have disappeared from American discourse. Books from the expunged period or that makes reference to it, even derogatorily, will become less and less available.
The habitat that “Mike the Tiger” lives in is hardly a cage. It is a huge outdoor area with trees, boulders, cliffs, trees, a running stream and a large pond. It is also connected to a large indoor area where the LSU Veterinarian School provides 24 hour care. You can see his enclosure at mikethetiger.com
Ooops! Better call Tennessee State University, HBCU, that their mascot, Tigers, is scary and racist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_State_Tigers_and_Lady_Tigers
Ping
They can be the Corndogs
They could drop the tiger and go with the Katrina looter guy. He’s from Louisiana, he’s the right color, and he’s clearly preparing to engage in the favorite pastime of LSU undergraduates.