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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 thats 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.
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TOPICS: Education; Local News; Pets/Animals; Society; Weird Stuff
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.
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posted on
05/15/2019 7:58:09 AM PDT
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
That was quick. LOL! My first thought too. Guess someone will sue Lockheed?
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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?)
To: C19fan
Or the Beatles “White Album.”
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posted on
05/15/2019 7:59:38 AM PDT
by
VR-21
To: C19fan
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posted on
05/15/2019 8:00:16 AM PDT
by
Responsibility2nd
( Import the third world and you'll become the third world.)
To: VR-21
Or the Beatles White Album. I can only think of the "Jimmy Stewart" version of that song.
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posted on
05/15/2019 8:00:53 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: C19fan
I respectfuly suggest the name, “Canary.”
To: C19fan
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 .. .. .
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posted on
05/15/2019 8:01:51 AM PDT
by
AmericanCheeseFood
(Fox Shadowbans People On Comments)
To: C19fan
“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.
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posted on
05/15/2019 8:02:18 AM PDT
by
PGR88
To: C19fan
But isn’t there an actual bird called “blackbird”?
To: C19fan
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?
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posted on
05/15/2019 8:02:40 AM PDT
by
Responsibility2nd
( Import the third world and you'll become the third world.)
To: C19fan
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
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posted on
05/15/2019 8:03:01 AM PDT
by
Dawgreg
To: Innovative
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posted on
05/15/2019 8:03:05 AM PDT
by
DIRTYSECRET
(urope. Why do they put up with this.)
To: C19fan
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.
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posted on
05/15/2019 8:03:14 AM PDT
by
grobdriver
(BUILD KATE'S WALL!)
To: All
Now what about
this bird, which is quite common in Lawn Guyland?!?
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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)
To: VR-21
Or ZZ Top “Mexican Blackbird”, you won’t be hearing that one on the radio no mo.
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posted on
05/15/2019 8:03:52 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: Innovative
many species of avians are called “blackbirds”. Most of them aren’t all black ...
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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)
To: C19fan
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posted on
05/15/2019 8:05:38 AM PDT
by
rivercat
To: C19fan
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posted on
05/15/2019 8:07:35 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: C19fan
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.
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posted on
05/15/2019 8:08:39 AM PDT
by
sparklite2
(Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
To: C19fan
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”.
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