Posted on 03/30/2025 7:37:50 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
Brentwood Union Free School District changed its teams’ names to the “Spartans” from the “Indians” after New York State banned public schools from using Native American mascots.
The district took a vote last April to choose a name to replace the Indians and selected the Spartans after “an inclusive process that involved input from students, staff and the broader community,” schools superintendent Wanda Ortiz-Rivera told Newsday.
The district’s then-superintendent estimated in 2023 that changing its teams’ names from the Indians could cost more than $400,000.
Now, the district is set to adopt the Spartans name at the conclusion of the 2024-25 school year after the school board voted unanimously in November to approve the new moniker.
However, William King Moss III, the head of the Islip-Smithtown branch of the NAACP, claims in a new lawsuit that the new name is problematic because the Spartans were a group of white people who enslaved others and did not allow women to serve in the military.
Moss, a former teacher in the Brentwood school district and a father of two girls who are students in the district, filed the lawsuit in state court earlier this month claiming the team name is a “symbol of White supremacy.”
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He knows this because he studied that documentary “300”.
Somebody looking for something to be offended about?
How about “The Slaves?” Probably fair to say they can’t be accused of keeping slaves themselves, and they’d be a great underdog to root for. Go Slaves! Kill Whitey!
They could change the name to the ‘Zulus’.
They should not have tried to appease these clowns and should have left the mascot name Indians.
They would have to check with the Michael Caine film to make sure it was historically palatable.
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I had that t-shirt for awhile. The front freaked people out, then I would turn around so they could read that the shirt was made by “Native Americans”.
YGTBSM.
Give the wokists an inch and they’ll take a mile. Idiotic to give in in the first place.
Spoken like someone who never picked a cotton ball in his life. Probably never did an honest days work either. His name reminds me of a silver spooner.
ROTFL! You can't make this crap up! I think they should name them the non-offensive mascot names, "The Trannies" or the "Man-Buns". Or the "Dylan Mulvaneys". LOL! Or how about "The National Angry Agitator Clown People."
I often wonder how the Minnesota Vikings have managed to survive this long. Another bunch of white people who built ships and explored other lands.
Are they protesting the spartan living and learning conditions the students have to endure?
This ‘Caucasians’ T-shirt is going viral for mocking NFL’s Redskins
https://nypost.com/2021/01/12/caucasians-t-shirt-goes-viral-for-mocking-nfls-redskins/
I’m rooting for “THE TURKEYS”. who could possibly be offended with a turkey as a mascot?
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William King Moss III, of the Islip-Smithtown branch of the NAACP,
claims that the new name is problematic...a “symbol of White supremacy”........
the “Spartans” were a group of whites who enslaved others and did not allow women in the military.
Moss, a former teacher in the Brentwood school district and a father of two students in the district,
filed a lawsuit earlier this month claiming the new team name is a “symbol of White supremacy.”
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