USA Today Demands High Schools Change Racially Insensitive Nicknames

Newsbusters.org ^ | 1/1/2021 | Jay Maxson

[rktman]

USA Today is on the warpath against high schools with so-called racially insensitive nicknames. In separate stories, USA Today pressured Red Mesa High School in Arizona to drop “Redskins” and Robstown Early College High School in Texas to replace the nickname “Cotton Pickers.”

There’s a big catch to these stories. Red Mesa is a predominantly Navajo school located on the Navajo Reservation. Located near the U.S.-Mexico border, Robstown is 94 percent Hispanic or Latino. Minorities quoted in the two stories are proud of their schools’ respective nicknames and resist politically correct efforts to erase them.

[rktman]

Either we tell the objectors to pound sand, or, no more nicknames for ANY team. Arizona Public School #xxx football/baseball/basketball/track/soccer/la cross team. Same with all the pro sports. Seattle football team. In the case of two teams in the same area, #1 and #2 based on which franchise has seniority. I heard that wolves are upset because the University of Nevada Reno uses them as their team name. AWwwwWooooo!

[Karoo]

USA Today?

The power of the press.

[Highest Authority]

Political correctness is for brain dead a**h*les!

[HangnJudge]

A newspaper demands something, how rich with irony, better they search their own hearts and repent

[Fiji Hill]

If Cotton Pickers is somehow racist, then so is Cornhuskers, so the University of Nebraska football team must also change its name.

[AnglePark]

The only thing good USA Today ever produced was Baseball Weekly. Still miss it, and haven’t paid any attention to that paper since.

[nascarnation]

My high school's nickname was the Firebirds.

Unfortunately the school closed down in 2013 and the building was demolished.

If they were still operating today, it would be right on point for the times.

[Lazamataz]

Fine, we’ll rename them the “Drunk-Ass Injuns” and the “Lazy F***n’ N**gers”.

[ActresponsiblyinVA]

Does the media have any idea how much credibility they have lost?

[a fool in paradise]

Would Corn Pickers be less racist than Cotton Pickers?

It is a job

[EQAndyBuzz]

“The power of the press.”

The power of the presstitutes! There, fixed it.

[Fair Paul]

Their weather page was pretty good as well in it’s day.

[ealgeone]

The comic book newspaper.

[Fiji Hill]

At the University of Southern California, a statue of Rufus von KleinSmid, a president who had a hand in turning USC from a regional school into a world-class institution, was removed and his name was taken off the Von KleinSmid Center because of some articles he wrote early in the 20th century advocating eugenics.

The white horse that gallops around the field whenever the USC Trojans score a touchdown is now in danger because its name is Traveler, as was the name of the white horse ridden by Robert E. Lee. And so is Tommy Trojan, the iconic statue of a Trojan warrior in the center of the campus, because it was modeled after a white student.

[a fool in paradise]

Millennials. Worst trend in journalism in a long time.

https://analisbailey.myportfolio.com/about-analis

[a fool in paradise]

McPaper

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

I remember when Pekin Il. High school were the Chinks.

🤣

[AnglePark]

Actually, I’m being too harsh. Back in the 80s and early 90s they were probably the best national paper to pick up, especially when traveling. Much better than that monstrosity, the NYT, and I don’t mean in just their content but also the overall size of the paper. USA Today was short and readable — concise. And the presentation was always nice and colorful. Now they’ve been ruined, much like everything else.

[Da Coyote]

And both readers of USA today agree.

[Vision]

USA Today are commies.