[MeekOneGOP]

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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.

[scan58]

While I don't care about the actual name change...'coons to raccoons, s'ok by me...the reasoning behind it is certainly to be pc. I heard about this a few days ago on the Dallas news.
I used to drive thru Frisco 10-12 yrs. ago. At that time, it seemed like just a small, quiet country town with a few older frame houses, a feed store, a local cafe, some old men in faded overalls...you know.
I remembered that when my family moved down to the Dallas area last year and I wanted that sort of older community. It's changed. The homes there are very expensive (too much for me) and it is the fastest growing part of the DFW metro. It's probably chock-full of 'liberal elites' now.

When I heard about the controversy, I was trying to imagine what it might be like to be a white person moving into a community of mostly black people whose HS team were called the "Crackers". That seemed an appropriate analogy, as the word "crackers" could be viewed with the same type of slant.
I dunno, it wouldn't bother me in the least.

[VOA]

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[_Jim]

North Dallas suburb

Wrong!

This is a North Plano suburb ...

(Stupid AP story writer)

Going North from Dallas you encounter the following communities: Richardson, Plano, Farmers Branch, Carrolton, Addison, Frisco ...

[MissAmericanPie]

I guess the word "coons" has been taken over like the word "gay". It's all in the ear of the beholder as to what it means. I guess now "coon dogs" must be referred to as "racoon dogs".

[Slyfox]

Frisco used to be a little town out in the middle of nowhere that had a Dairy Queen and a water tower with the school's mascot on it. I used to drive up there to feel like I was taking a drive out in the country. When the developers started building expensive houses just outside of town, the schools started having problems between the rich folks moving in and the regular folks who'd been there all their lives. Now, it is just one big middle class sprawl. It was just a matter of time before the Fighting Coons had to bite the dust.

[cake_crumb]

One ignorant student, who happens to be black, has never heard of a relatively small mammal which is fond of crayfish...and decides to take "offense" at the creature's name being used as the name of a high school sports team.

It's been a couple of decades since I heard the word "coon" used in any context other than a shortened version of "raccoon".

The name is axed by the equally ignorant PC crowd. I'm offended that one of our popular native wildlife species has been denigrated so.

What's next? Will we change the name of the raccoon? Does our illustrious government make the use of the shortened nickname "'coon" illegal?

SAY, how about we get rid of the word "pig"? We all know who THAT word has been used to describe! How about "cow"? Some obese woman might become offended. OOOooo...and DOG, too!! Where the heck does this P.C. B.S. END??

[TexKat]

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Coon

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black[1,adjective]black[2,noun]black[3,verb]black Etymology: Middle English blak, from Old English blæc; akin to Old High German blah black, and probably to Latin flagrare to burn, Greek phlegein Date: before 12th century 1 a : of the color black b (1) : very dark in color b (1) often capitalized : of or relating to any of various population groups having dark pigmentation of the skin (2) : of or relating to the Afro-American people or their culture (3) : typical or representative of the most readily attended parts of black culture 3 : dressed in black 4 : DIRTY, SOILED 5 a : characterized by the absence of light b : reflecting or transmitting little or no light c : served without milk or cream 6 a : thoroughly sinister or evil : WICKED b : indicative of condemnation or discredit 7 : connected with or invoking the supernatural and especially the devil 8 a : very sad, gloomy, or calamitous b : marked by the occurrence of disaster 9 : characterized by hostility or angry discontent : SULLEN 10 chiefly British : subject to boycott by trade-union members as employing or favoring nonunion workers or as operating under conditions considered unfair by the trade union 11 a of propaganda : conducted so as to appear to originate within an enemy country and designed to weaken enemy morale b : characterized by or connected with the use of black propaganda 12 : characterized by grim, distorted, or grotesque satire 13 : of or relating to covert intelligence operations - black·ish /'bla-kish/ adjective - black·ly adverb - black·ness noun

[Khepera]

We are all Coons on this bus!

[SpookBrat]

Mark Davis is talking about this subject this morning. Some guy just called in and said there were 100 people at the school board meeting and all of them were against the name change. No one stood up for it. Coon is short for Racoon. No big deal. People make mountains out of mole hills.

I'm off in my own little world I guess. The only negative terms I can think of for black people is the "N" word. I didn't even know "Coon" was a negative term for blacks.

My neighbor got a ticket for shooting a fire arm off in the city limits where we live. A Coon got in the house and they couldn't get it out, so they shot it. What else where they suppose to do? It was scared to death and was tearing up the house. How did I get off on that tale? Gotta go pack!

[mindprism.com]

OK, who is going to tell the environmentalists we must exterminate all the racoons because they are racially offensive?

Its for the children.

[antaresequity]

"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 dont understand this statment. Is it the dead guy that was bothered? or are we to believe there is a highschool student who has a friend that is alive and has "coon" etched in his chest.

Right...lets see a bunch of white guys got tegether 80 years ago to name a high school to piss off the black folks...I think they should petition that the word coon be stricken from the english language and censored from its books as well...then hold hands and sing kumbya

[xp38]

Still mourning the loss of Beaver College

[archy]

I have live in the Dallas Metroplex for 30 years now and I had never heard of this school's moniker/name before today.

The name of the town, and likely the team, comes from the St. Louis- San Francisco Railroad, popularly known as the Frisco [a name not real popular in some corners of California, BTW] the shape of whose logo is said to have been derived from a stationmaster who tacked a coonskin to the side of a depot to dry.

Though the Frisco railroad was later merged into the Southern Pacific, the politically correct will no doubt now want to burn down any surving restored depots....

[mn_b_one]

I would really like a fightin' coons t-shirt.

[Terriergal]

I tell ya. Let's decide to make "football" a racial slur. What will they change it to then?

[metesky]

I grew up in Boston in the 40's and 50's. I know enough racial epithets to make a Klansman blush. I'm not proud of it, that's just the way it was back then.

I got over it and so should everyone else.