[RWG]

a white man in a suit...hate crime?

[Sci Fi Guy]

Everybody needs to read this.

David Yeagley is great!!

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

'Now you know how it is, and now you can make a judgement.' "

I like it!!!

Only in America..........if it was a white team calling themselves Mighty Whities, the NAACP would be having the proverbial hissy fit. Thanks to Native Americans, we have our own team! I am humbled and honored.

[Always Right]

All three major colleges in Indiana are (possibly) named after white men.....fighting irish, hoosiers, and boilermakers.

[ODDITHER]

I wish every team in all of America who has a "racially charged" mascot name would change it to a White American name.

But............We all know what would happen then. Every race including Indians would be screaming to high heaven that we aren't sensitive to diversity.

Bring em on. How about the Alfred Packard team. If we can't beat you will eat you.

[Semaphore Heathcliffe]

This is hilarious. I'm so offended. Not. Haven't read the whole thread, hope I'm the first to suggest another team call themselves the Flighting Whities.

[Boucheau]

Truly an excellent choice of team name and mascot! Way to go lefties! You pathetic clods!

They even chose a businessman! Perfect!

[stripes1776]

Teams pick mascots that have some virtue that they want, for example courage, intelligence, strength, power, skill.

If some American Indian on this team needs a white guy as a mascot to give him an identity with a virtue that he is in need of, then let him have the mascot. He is really flattering white guys.

[freebilly]

If they want to offend white folk they could've called their team "The Wimpy Whities" or "The Dumb White Crackers" or "The Ignorant Red-Necked Honkies".

[Bullish]

Doesn't bother me a bit. In fact, this country could use more fighting whities.

[Michael2001]

Finally, we white men get the recognition we deserve! (What, I was supposed to be offended?)

[Nakota]

For many years the nickname of the Wahpeton, ND high school was the "Wahps". Then, to be PC, they changed it to the Huskies. I suppose if you combined the names you could manage to offend two identity groups at the same time.

[babble-on]

U. of Pennsylvania Quakers

Fight! Fight! Inner Light!
Kill, Quakers, Kill!!

[mountainfolk]

And that point is ? They need a WHITE mascot to win? They apparently weren't doing too well on their own.

[Is2C]

Don't you know that if all mascots across the country were named after a white person of some kind that all the minorities would be shouting racism because there WEREN'T any minority mascot - GEEESH.

[Pablo64]

I think I just found a new team to root for!!

I've never bought all this crap that all the Native Americans (by the way, all my "Native American" friends in college referred to themselves as Indians) were all so outraged by all this. The college I attended in the early 80's had quite a large Indian representation in the student body due not only to its proximity to several reservations, but also due to the fact that if you could show that you were at least one-quarter "Native American" you could attend without having to pay tuition.

My "Native American" friends were all too busy studying and trying to earn a degree to worry about the PC crap. They thought it was mostly started by some dumb white kids with too much of mommy and daddy's money and too much time on their hands.

Perhaps the climate has changed there over the years. I haven't set foot on campus in quite some time, but I believe this whole issue over a team mascot being offensive has been blown way out of proportion.

[mcenedo]

"Fighting Whities" is fine with me.

[Cowboy Bob]

My brother's intramural team back in high school (mid '70's) was composed of both Blacks and Whites. Their name was the "Afro-Whities".

For those who don't get the humor, it was a play off the name Aphrodite!

[1Old Pro]

What a great name, I wish them good luck. Are the Caucasions on their schedule? I hear they're the team to beat.

[1Old Pro]

Bump as Rush discusses this....