I'm almost a little offended by that.
Posted on 11/15/2010 1:37:51 PM PST by Fiji Hill
Edited on 11/15/2010 2:36:07 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Published: Monday, November 15, 2010 at 2:37 p.m. Last Modified: Monday, November 15, 2010 at 2:37 p.m.
GRAND FORKS, N.D. - Duke without the Blue Devil? Notre Dame without the Fighting Irish? Most students and alumni at those proud universities wouldn't dream of dropping those enduring symbols of school pride.
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I'm almost a little offended by that.
I interpret this to mean the Sioux are too weak to be seen as inspiring collegiate mascots.
“hey NCAA: how ‘bout checking out STFU?”
Better yet, get serious and find out how much Awburn paid Cam Newton for his services. As they’re starting to say down here in Alabama, “Cam Newton - the best QB that money can buy!”
How about “Sioux your butt off”
What bull. They should change their name to the Aborigines.
Remember, one of the tribes actually liked it.
They should just assign all teams a number and eliminate names, and, of course, there will be no #1 team.
See my #5. “The Welfare-Recipient, Casino-Operating Sioux”?
If we remove all these ‘nicknames’ from our school mascots, then the NCAA is removing all memory of American Indians, as free-spirited, family protective, strongly competitive human beings from the early educational years of our children.
What these children will be left with, as they turn adults, is only a memory of the Indians as being the guy at the gambling casino who takes their parents money.
Way to go, NCAA.
The entire country has been infested with Political Correctness for the last 50 years, tho I prefer to call it Pavlovian Conditioning.
These things are plain and simply idiotic and frankly none of the NCAA’s business. Also those stupid Indian tribes don’t understand that it is done to honor them.
Actually the Florida Seminole Tribe does understand.
Just change it to Fighting Sue. Worked out OK for Johnny Cash.
“after the NCAA concluded the 80-year-old Fighting Sioux nickname was hostile and abusive. “
Well, I guess if you are a passel of politically correct weasely wussies, the “Fighting Sioux” WOULD seem “hostile” and “abusive”.
But were I a Sioux, or Lakota or Dakota or whatever you call that tribe, I would view an attribute like “fighting” as a positive one. After all, under such illustrious chiefs like Red Cloud, Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, and others, they made an illustrious defense of their homelands, families and way of life. (As contrasted with modern day Americans and western Europeans when confronted with the threat of an insane predatory ideology called “Islam”).
Why, once upon a time, you could have even referred to the “Fighting Americans.”
So when’s the NCAA gonna jump down Illinois’ throat?
How ‘bout Fighting Sue
In ancient times, it was a common practice to remove the names of unpopular kings by chiseling their names out of the stone of their monuments, or ‘obliterating’ them. In more recent times, various totalitarian regimes have done the same thing to those who ran afoul of the regime. I think that any self-respecting Sioux would be very concerned about his erasure from popular culture.
Hereafter the “Fighting Sioux” shall be known as the “Pigmented Prairie Pansies,” demonstrating that they are non-White, living in a natural environment, and peaceful in the extreme.
Will they be forced to change their name too?
NCAA.
I doubt whether those running the NCAA are even real Indians.
They don’t give a darn about the ‘feeling’s or ‘image’ of actual American Indians.
They care about one thing. The same thing Jesse Jackson cares about.
M O N E Y
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