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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

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To: C19fan

All the real racist names were eliminated 10 years ago, and now they’re moving on to the names that are not racist. The goal is to make it so that anything that comes out of the mouth of a White is racist and gets the White fired.

WAIT! We’re already there!


41 posted on 05/15/2019 8:15:03 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Islam, not a religion, a totalitarian political ideology aiming for world domination. -Wilders)
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To: C19fan

99% of the internet and computers are racist for supporting black print.. Black ink pens are offensive.

Why on earth are some (mostly liberal) folks so obsessed with what they think someone needs to be offended by..?? That in itself should offend!


42 posted on 05/15/2019 8:15:25 AM PDT by jughandle (Big words anger me, keep talking.)
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To: VR-21

Oh no,....
The Cracker Album....


43 posted on 05/15/2019 8:15:36 AM PDT by gathersnomoss (Grace and Dignity Will Win The Day.)
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To: dfwgator

I vaguely remember this song.

Mexican Blackbird
ZZ Top

If you’re down in Acuna and you ain’t up to being alone
don’t spend all your money on just any honey that’s grown.
Go find the Mexican blackbird and send all your troubles back home.

They all call her her “puta” ‘cause no one really knows her name.
She works the cantina, dancin’ and a-lovin’s her trade.
Her mama was Mez’can and her daddy was the ace of spades.

Oh, let’s drive that old Chrysler down to Mexico, boy.
Said, keep your hands on the wheel there.
Oh, it sure is fine, ain’t it?
Now, ya got it! Hand me another one of them brews from back there.
Oh, this is gonna be so good.

Mm, she’s hot as a pepper but smooth as a Mexican brew.
So head for the border and put in an order or two.
The wings of the blackbird will spread like an eagle for you.

Oh, one more time,
can you roll me another Bull Durham, please?
Can’t you do it with one hand, boy?


44 posted on 05/15/2019 8:16:10 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd ( Import the third world and you'll become the third world.)
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To: C19fan
Long Beach State University was founded in 1949, so naturally they chose "49'ers" as their mascot. But someone figured that the nineteenth-century gold seekers known as 49'ers were somehow racist, so the school dropped the name, Last week it was announced that the school will now be known as the Sharks.

Undoubtedly, the cost of the name change--from renaming the Nugget cafe and other 49'er-themed institutions to removing the huge statue of 49'er Pete--will be enormous.


49'er Pete

45 posted on 05/15/2019 8:16:21 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: C19fan

“Long Island” is offensive to shorter islands and “university” is offensive to colleges. Rename everything.


46 posted on 05/15/2019 8:16:54 AM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: C19fan

How about Crows? Grackles? Or, as well call them in Baltimore, Ravens?


47 posted on 05/15/2019 8:17:19 AM PDT by VietVet876
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To: Innovative

Yes. And that must be racist, too. No more blackheads, blackboards, blackberries or blackouts, either. Lol!

Liberals. Are. Stupid.


48 posted on 05/15/2019 8:17:33 AM PDT by AmericanMermaid
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To: C19fan

How about Black Crows....
Or The Heckle & Jeckles
Lighten up AHoles.


49 posted on 05/15/2019 8:18:07 AM PDT by gathersnomoss (Grace and Dignity Will Win The Day.)
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To: William of Barsoom

So now you are favoring all Asians?? (kidding)

I guess the term White House will be next in line to be in question -— if it isn’t already!!


50 posted on 05/15/2019 8:19:07 AM PDT by Exit148 ( (Loose Change Club founder) Put yours aside for the next Freepathon!)
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To: dfwgator

RACISSSSSSSS....


51 posted on 05/15/2019 8:19:35 AM PDT by gathersnomoss (Grace and Dignity Will Win The Day.)
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To: William of Barsoom

Long Island Do Do Birds


52 posted on 05/15/2019 8:19:50 AM PDT by RatRipper
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To: sparklite2

Bwahaha


53 posted on 05/15/2019 8:20:04 AM PDT by gathersnomoss (Grace and Dignity Will Win The Day.)
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To: gathersnomoss

The Cracker Album....

Great Band...

Cracker - Teen Angst (What the World Needs Now)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42V8CqWw0xM


54 posted on 05/15/2019 8:20:25 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: gathersnomoss
“Nondescript bird singing in the dead of night....” Yeah, that’s the ticket.... EFFING IDIOTS....

Yep, PC is nuts.

55 posted on 05/15/2019 8:20:38 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: gathersnomoss
"Oh no,.... The Cracker Album....

laughing, That should be Bing Crosby's White Christmas.

56 posted on 05/15/2019 8:20:47 AM PDT by VR-21
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To: C19fan

Insanity Gone Wild


57 posted on 05/15/2019 8:21:17 AM PDT by samtheman (To steal an election, who do you collude with? Russians in Russia or Mexicans in California?)
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To: C19fan

Sing a song of sixpence,
A pocket full of rye.
Four and twenty blackbirds,
Baked in a pie.

When the pie was opened
The birds began to sing;
Wasn’t that a dainty dish,
To set before the king.

The king was in his counting house,
Counting out his money;
The queen was in the parlour,
Eating bread and honey.

The maid was in the garden,
Hanging out the clothes,
When down came a blackbird
And pecked off her nose.

There was such a commotion,
that little Jenny wren
Flew down into the garden,
and put it back again.


58 posted on 05/15/2019 8:21:34 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Berlin_Freeper

I was just singing that in March when we visited an old plantation in Jamaica. There was a counting house on the property, and nobody had ever heard of that before.


59 posted on 05/15/2019 8:23:07 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: C19fan

“Bye Bye Blackbird” - Gene Austin (1926)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX_75D0lC2o


60 posted on 05/15/2019 8:25:10 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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