New York tells schools to ditch ‘racist’ Native American mascots or risk state funding

nypost.com ^ | November 18, 2022 | Zach Williams

[lowbridge]

New York’s Education Department is telling high schools to dump their Native American mascots by the end of the school year – or risk losing state funding in 2023.

The move follows a June 2022 ruling against the upstate Cambridge Central School District, which sought to hold onto its “Indians” identity, despite decades of advocacy by indigenous groups saying such monikers disrespect native people.

“Public school districts are prohibited from utilizing Native American mascots. Arguments that community members support the use of such imagery or that it is ‘respectful’ to Native Americans are no longer tenable,” reads a Nov. 17 letter from the State Education Department to local districts.

School districts who refuse to adopt less offensive athletic avatars could face “the removal of school officers and the withholding of State Aid,” the letter adds while acknowledging that Cambridge is now turning over a new leaf on the matter.

At least 133 schools in 55 districts had native-themed mascots as of March 2022, according to a report by the National Congress of American Indians, which noted that schools from Suffolk County to Western New York had given them up in recent years.

The State Education Department believes about 50 to 60 schools still have such mascots with a spokesman for the New York City Department of Education confirming there are none within the five boroughs.

[for-q-clinton]

Change the names to the Whities.

[Shady]

The New Havordord Milquetoasts vs the Old Sagebrush Twinkies.. 🙄

[immadashell]

What is Red Jacket School District going to do?

[MeganC]

New York liberals HATE NATIVE AMERICANS AND WANT THEIR NAMES ERASED AND FORGOTTEN!!!!

RACISTS!!!!!

[whitney69]

What’s next? Eagles since they hate the US so much?

wy69

[where's_the_Outrage?]

I went to Central Michigan who are the Chippewas, and they aren’t changing as they have a relationship with the tribe. Glad they didn’t buckle to this PC crap like the EMU Hurons (now the falcons).

[golux]

How about that?
New York’s Education Department let ‘em have the rights to those names,
and then they just took ‘em away.

[Gene Eric]

Rats and their historical genocide.

Rats are deranged. Rats are evil

[Impala64ssa]

Not just NY, this foolishness is natiowide

[Chode]

i live on Seneca Lake, gonna change the name of that now too???

[joma89]

Can we just ignore democrat party run government instead?

[No name given]

That’s because they’re not even human.

[Blood of Tyrants]

I heard an Indian once say that there was a 30% alcoholism rate and a 75% unemployment rate on his reservation and he had much worse problems than what a school mascot was in a town he never heard of.

[Blood of Tyrants]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2014/03/13/5-ways-the-government-keeps-native-americans-in-poverty/?sh=6298d7022c27

[Vision]

What they really want to do is change the identity of America, it's not about racism.

The Left's Core Strategy #1: “Pick the target and polarize it." *via Rules for Radicals

The Left's Core Strategy #2: Scream accusations of racism (or racist attacks) at anything you don't like or which slows your agenda. *Sexism, "homophobia", etc. are also opportunities.

The Left's Core Strategy #3: Intensely attack Republicans for doing what you are doing.

The Left's Core Strategy #4: Attack Republicans with shallow insults in an effort to negatively influence the public's view of their character. Do not attempt to explain the insults. Think drive-by shooter.

The Left's Core Strategy #5: When all else fails, censor speech and/or deploy violence.

Repeat

[EEGator]

LOL, classic.

[thegagline]

Replace all “racist” Indian mascots with whites any let the howling begin.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

For a long time I have been advocating that sports teams get licensed tribal art and names for their logos and even cheers. Which would mean that scoundrels who accuse the team of “racism” are instead indicting themselves for racism.

Tribes would be more than happy to do so, as their artists and writers would get small royalties, as would the tribe for using trademarked or copyrighted material on team merchandise.

[Rurudyne]

Time to bring back the versions of these mascots from the 30s and 40s.