Are members of the various Lakota tribes offended or is this just the concern of the politically correct crowd? I expect that soon this idiocy will expand with groups like PETA demanding an end to sports teams named Lions, Tigers, Bears etc.?
Here’s the solution -
they set up a fund with a goal of the $750,000.
Those who are “concerned” may contribute to this fund,
and when it reaches the goal, the renaming can begin.
end to sports teams named Lions, Tigers, Bears - Oh my!
It is not cartoon-cute, and is not demeaning in any way.
The Spirit Lake Sioux have been pretty aggravated--but not over the nickname, they are mad that it is being 'forcibly retired'. Check out the articles Spirit Lake Sioux committee warns of ‘severe’ consequences if nickname goes and here and the website www.savethefightingsioux.com
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) – The artist who created the University of North Dakota’s current Fighting Sioux logo says he is proud of it and disappointed by its imminent demise but that life goes on .Bennett Brien, a Chippewa Indian who created the current Fighting Sioux logo for the University of North Dakota, says the politically correct crowd has “misinterpreted” what it symbolizes.”
“There are so many other problems we’ve got, real problems. Why spend all your energy on this?” Bennett Brien told the Grand Forks Herald.
Brien, who is Chippewa, created the American Indian head emblem for UND in 1999, when controversy over the school’s nickname was heating up and critics objected to earlier logos they found to be demeaning.
nothing will satisfy the leftist moonbat PC bedwetters.