[MeekOneGOP]

Easy Link
http://www.dallasnews.com/texassouthwest/ap/stories/AP_STATEGS_0800.html

I have live in the Dallas Metroplex for 30 years now and I had never heard of this school's moniker/name before today. This story was on the radio this morning, 102.9 FM KDMX.

[MeekOneGOP]

Related:

Frisco board alters school's moniker
http://www.dallasnews.com/localnews/city/collin/stories/030502dnmetraccoon.9885f.html

[MeekOneGOP]

Oops! "live" s/b "lived"

[ImphClinton]

Glad they got rid of it. Racoon sounds better anyway. I became aware of this racial name when I moved to Phoenix. I do not believe this to be a proper thing to call a team. They also used the term spook. With all due respect to Casper the friendly ghost I hope this is also not used anywhere.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Did they say which lawyer represented the offended racoons?

The should change their name to the "We Bend Over And Take It Up The Wazoo For Liberals". I'll admit it's not a catchy name, but it's true.

[glc1173@aol.com]

Over 2/3 of black babies born last year in the U.S. were illegitimate - but let's worry about serious things like the nicknames of high-school sports teams!

[Teacher317]

Sounds reasonable. PC has gone WAY too far in many other cases, but the mascot isn't really changing in this case... just being clarified. The students will certainly continue to call themselves 'Coons just to be defiant and rebellious.

[MeekOneGOP]

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[mountaineer]

Duke, spokesdog for Coon Hounds of America, said his organization is not contemplating changing its name. "Naw, our members don't really care about such things," he said.

[Sloth]

This actually sounds like a reasonable change to me. I can't see getting up in arms about going from 'Coons to Raccoons.

[Lockbox]

Gee in NEW BRITAIN, Conn "educational value outweighed politics."

[Lockbox]

What do we do about Louisiana?

Many of the people who live in that state call themselves ‘Coon Asses’.

[ken in texas]

Frisco's just a couple miles up the road. My wife and I have been discussing for some years now how long we thought it would take before the name was changed.

A fellow I work with has a coffee mug emblazoned with "Frisco Coons". I guess it's now a collector's item.

[Brian Allen]

Psychopathological Projection Syndrome is a symptom of the mental illness -- Liberalism -- itself but a symptom of a far more serious malaise!

[al_c]

I have live in the Dallas Metroplex for 30 years now and I had never heard of this school's moniker/name before today. This story was on the radio this morning, 102.9 FM KDMX.

Probably because for the 30 years you've lived here, Frisco was just a little town until about 4 or 5 years ago. Now it's one of the fastest growing cities in the country.

IMO ... this case is a joke. I don't understand why some people are so over-sensitive about things like this. Sure, kids with no consciences from other schools may use it to pick on the kids from Frisco, but other than that, 'Coon has always meant Racoon as far as I'm concerned.

[IW]

A name can only become racist if one feels it applies to them. The name Coon is only short for Racoon, just like Jay is short for Blue Jay. Nothing more nothing less.

[Gaston]

But black student LaVaughn Oliver, a sophomore, said, "I have a friend whose grandfather was killed by a Klan member, and he had that etched in on his chest, and it bothered him."

I doubt that. Why would the Klan carve a racial slur on a dead man who is obviously black? Unless the man was mostly white and the "coon" carving was to describe what they thought he was. All though I could understand them carving KKK or something like that so as to take claim for the murder. I think this young man has seen too many holocaust movies where the victims are labeled Jew to distinguish them from the other white people. I think this is another case of invented racism.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

I found the comment by the young girl, that this was a problem for NEW people coming to town, to be enlightening.

Several years ago, we had a new Baptist Preacher in town. He objected to our Parent/Teacher organization name, which was Mother/Father/Teacher Organizaion.... and went by "MFT"

He worked very vocally to change the name because he felt it was "offensive"..... and I found it "offensive" a few years later when he was found shacked up with one of his parishoners at the Motel on the highway.....

I guess he learned "do as I say, not as I do" really well....

[DancesWithTrout]

Our local (rural) school hired a pc monkey fresh out of college last year. He felt our mascot was offensive because it projected a warrior mentality and that promoting war was wrong. He tried to begin a student movement to have it changed, but the student body and community managed to ridicule him back into his hole. We have a new teacher this year. small victories.

[Deguello]

So now we can't have coon dogs?

All on needs to do is add the proper punctuation to the word to make a contraction. The proper change is make it now 'coon. Pretty easy to do and to then be able to keep our Southern slang proper without question of the origin.

[Destructor]

"Some students and parents in the North Dallas suburb had complained the nickname was racially offensive, and the Frisco School Board agreed Monday night, voting unanimously to change the nickname from Coons to Raccoons."

Apparently, they have way too much time on their hands up the in Frisco!