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Houston school board votes to ban 'offensive' mascots
Fox News/AP ^ | December 13, 2013

Posted on 12/14/2013 6:59:23 AM PST by Zakeet

The Houston school district board has given preliminary approval to a new policy that would prohibit offensive or culturally insensitive mascots.

The new policy calls on schools to show respect and cultural sensitivity in nicknames and mascots. The use of any race or ethnic group will be prohibited, the Houston Chronicle reported.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: education; houston; loonyleft; mascots; politicallycorrect; schoolboard
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To: afraidfortherepublic
EEEEUUUUU! I thought they ATE bananas I didn't know they looked like a banana a rotten banana! Well if that's what kids think of their team and their school who are you to interfere....... :)
41 posted on 12/14/2013 9:35:59 AM PST by Ditter
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To: afraidfortherepublic

“Well, the University of California at Santa Cruz Banana Slugs offend me! Have you ever seen a banana slug? They are as big as a banana and disgusting.”

Have you ever been to UC SANTA CRUZ? The student body there all make Banana Slugs look positively inviting. Our daughter’s ex-husband went there, so we really understand that UCSC is the crap hole of the UC system which in and of itself is a sad truth.


42 posted on 12/14/2013 9:38:32 AM PST by vette6387
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To: vette6387; Ditter

You both make good points!

Funny thing — I have cousins who live in Santa Cruz and they have all turned out to be VERY conservative. Didn’t start out that way, but when they grew up...


43 posted on 12/14/2013 9:45:01 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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It’s about time. I have always found Indians to be utterly and totally offensive


44 posted on 12/14/2013 9:57:03 AM PST by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
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To: dsrtsage

BORED with the Board


45 posted on 12/14/2013 10:02:01 AM PST by mason-dixon (As Mason said to Dixon, you have to draw the line somewhere.)
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To: Venturer

Never met a mascot that didn’t offend me—goes back to when I was a kid and the school I started out in called themselves the WheatRidge Farmers Most of them kids had NO idea what a real farmer was. And those schools that called themselves the Wildcats—or the Panthers aint no way none of them would have scat to do with the real thing. One school I went to even called themselves the Miners.Have you ever been down inside a mine. Those I’ve been in were cold enough my bones ached. And dark Love to see any of them try to shoot hoops — or play a single quarter of football in any of the mineshafts I’ve seen. And none of the kids I knew at that schools could have handled a shift in a mine. So I’m all with banning offensive mascots.Maybe part of my problem is the school ignored my suggestion we be known as the teenage skirt and booze chasers.Can you believe they ignored that excellent suggestion from one of their own?


46 posted on 12/14/2013 10:35:02 AM PST by StonyBurk (ring)
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To: broken_arrow1
The names “Lee” and “Jackson” have offensive Civil War connotations,

Actually, that's HONORABLE Civil War connotations -- and she's a disgrace to both of those last names.

47 posted on 12/14/2013 10:37:59 AM PST by Fast Moving Angel (A moral wrong is not a civil right: No religious sanction of an irreligious act.)
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To: Zakeet

“The use of any race or ethnic group will be prohibited.”

So by those criteria, any mascot representing a human of any kind will be prohibited, I suppose. Every single one of us has a race and ethnicity, after all.


48 posted on 12/14/2013 10:55:42 AM PST by unseelie
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To: Zakeet

I suggest the Houston High Trayvons.

One of my first memories was the political purging of my elementary school’s mascot “Red Devils.” One of the local megachurches started that fight.


49 posted on 12/14/2013 3:08:55 PM PST by Organic Panic
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To: Organic Panic

How about:

Katrina Refugees!!!


50 posted on 01/24/2014 4:00:02 AM PST by rfreedom4u (Your feelings don't trump my free speech!)
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To: Zakeet
"You should be spending your money, time and attention not on changing mascots but on educational matters," said Joe Koch, a 1968 Lamar graduate.

Yeah but where's the outrage in that?

51 posted on 01/24/2014 4:05:38 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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