Posted on 06/15/2022 6:10:24 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
Native American mascots are being phased out around the country at every level of sports, but four Connecticut school districts are still hanging onto theirs for dear life. And it's going to cost them.
School districts for Derby, Killingly, Windsor, and Woodbury/Bethlehem are choosing to defy the state law which bars schools with Native American mascots from receiving tribal funding, Alex Putterman of CT Insider reported Wednesday.
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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
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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This seems like an attempt to wipe out traces of our native American heritage.
From what I’ve heard I think you are in the majority.
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,
Wonder what North haven will do. Our mascot was the North Haven Indian.
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.
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”.
How, in a free country...theoretically free speech, can mascots be banned? Names made illegal? On its face, this is fascist lawmaking.
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.”
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