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Long Island University to ditch ‘Blackbirds’ nickname: It’s ‘offensive’ and ‘racist’
College Fix ^ | May 14, 2019 | Greg Piper

Posted on 05/15/2019 7:58:09 AM PDT by C19fan

Long Island University-Brooklyn will be scrapping its 84-year-old mascot/nickname of “Blackbirds” this fall as a result of an athletics program merger with its Post campus.

But that’s not all: LIU President Kimberly Cline noted she “had heard” the nickname name “is an offensive racist mascot,” according to the New York Post. At the end of March, Cline had told a group of a dozen concerned LIU-Brooklyn alumni that “Blackbirds” was to be replaced “for a few reasons.”

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


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KEYWORDS: blackbirds; brooklyn; college; kimberlycline; longislanduniversity; newyork; university
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I guess we need to never mention the nickname of the SR-71.
1 posted on 05/15/2019 7:58:09 AM PDT by C19fan
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That was quick. LOL! My first thought too. Guess someone will sue Lockheed?


2 posted on 05/15/2019 7:59:06 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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Or the Beatles “White Album.”


3 posted on 05/15/2019 7:59:38 AM PDT by VR-21
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Blackbirds Lives Matter.


4 posted on 05/15/2019 8:00:16 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd ( Import the third world and you'll become the third world.)
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Or the Beatles “White Album.”

I can only think of the "Jimmy Stewart" version of that song.

5 posted on 05/15/2019 8:00:53 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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I respectfuly suggest the name, “Canary.”


6 posted on 05/15/2019 8:01:28 AM PDT by William of Barsoom (In Omnia, Paratus)
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Given the culture of the permanently offended, up next their favorite snack will have some name changes, red and black crayons along with yellow and .. .. .


7 posted on 05/15/2019 8:01:51 AM PDT by AmericanCheeseFood (Fox Shadowbans People On Comments)
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“Academics” are usually the most rigid, ideological and stupid people you will ever meet.

It seems a paradox, but the times have given it proof.


8 posted on 05/15/2019 8:02:18 AM PDT by PGR88
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But isn’t there an actual bird called “blackbird”?


9 posted on 05/15/2019 8:02:21 AM PDT by Innovative
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How about they replace the Blackbird mascot with a Black Panther?

Would that be racist? How stupid does one have to be to see racism in birds and animals?


10 posted on 05/15/2019 8:02:40 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd ( Import the third world and you'll become the third world.)
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I’m beginning to think it’s not the little bytchers and whiners that find racism in everything, it’s the idiots that give in to them and appease them. Not a dime’s worth of difference in them.......grrr


11 posted on 05/15/2019 8:03:01 AM PDT by Dawgreg
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McCartney would object.


12 posted on 05/15/2019 8:03:05 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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Anyone who even knows what an SR-71 Blackbird is, is not likely to be one who gives a shit about PC complaints from SJW losers.
13 posted on 05/15/2019 8:03:14 AM PDT by grobdriver (BUILD KATE'S WALL!)
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Now what about this bird, which is quite common in Lawn Guyland?!?


14 posted on 05/15/2019 8:03:16 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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Or ZZ Top “Mexican Blackbird”, you won’t be hearing that one on the radio no mo.


15 posted on 05/15/2019 8:03:52 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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many species of avians are called “blackbirds”. Most of them aren’t all black ...


16 posted on 05/15/2019 8:04:56 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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Birds of color?


17 posted on 05/15/2019 8:05:38 AM PDT by rivercat
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18 posted on 05/15/2019 8:07:35 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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In a related story, due to negative perception
of their team name, the Washington Redskins
board of directors is changing the team name
to the Andover Redskins.


19 posted on 05/15/2019 8:08:39 AM PDT by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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And another “university” admits that the inmates are running the prison.

And that the standards for admitting inmates are low, low, low. No, make that “non existent”.


20 posted on 05/15/2019 8:08:52 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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