Posted on 03/09/2012 1:33:43 PM PST by ColdOne
SALEM, Ore. – Angry at a halftime show depicting a bare-chested Native American boy with a target painted on his skin, Che Butler set out to force the Molalla Indians and 14 other Oregon high schools to stop using mascots and nicknames that depict American Indians.
Oregon's Board of Education on Thursday took up Butler's plea for the second time, rejoining a longstanding national debate about racial tolerance and school traditions five years after issuing a nonbinding recommendation that schools stop using Native American regalia.
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In this ever changing PC world...How long ‘til our sons and daughters walk under a banner proudly proclaiming “Home of the Fightin’ Lesbians”.
Instead white people thought it was hilarious, and ordered up a bunch of shirts with the Fightin' Whiteys logo. Wish I had thought it up. It IS very funny.
Don’t forget about WET - White Entertainment TV!!! LOL!
This is a terrific idea!
Banning the use of Native American mascots will help everyone politely forget they ever existed and that many of them were brave people who valiantly gave up their lives for their land, tribes and families.
Eventually we can sweep the whole Indian mess under the carpet and quietly pretend a horrific wrong - worse than anything we did to the Africans as a whole - never happened.
Sounds like a win-win to me.
Che? Che Butler? How about we require he/she change his/her name?
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