Posted on 12/14/2014 8:11:06 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
(CNN) -- The debate over the "Redskins" name in sports isn't just at the professional level.
Students at an Oklahoma City high school were refusing to go into Capitol Hill High School on Wednesday morning because their mascot no longer has the controversial name, according to CNN affiliate KOCO.
Dozens of students stood on the lawn outside the building rather than heading into class.
The city's public school board voted Monday to change the name in response to Native American students' feelings that the mascot name was offensive. The vote to change the mascot, which has been in place since the 1920s, was unanimous.
School administrators will immediately start phasing out the Redskins mascot and will create a committee of current and former students and community members to pick a new mascot before the end of the spring semester, spokeswoman Tierney Tinnin said in a statement, according to The Oklahoman.
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Or the “Crackers”.
Change it to the Capitol Hill White Eyes. I’d be willing to bet that the easily “offended” would still piss and moan.
Peter Pan in Iceland?
They could have changed their mascot to a peanut and kept the name.
This is so asinine.
Our mascot was the “Red Devils” and we thought nothing about it being connected with Hades. It derived from a term that came about after a practice session played on a red clay field in the early 1930s. Someone on the sideline said “Look at those little red devils.” Someone who heard the remark thought the term “Red Devils” would make a great mascot name and it did.
School history...
http://www.gastonmuseum.org/
They were considering taking a jack hammer to a beautiful, 70 year old tile mosaic in the entry way. It is a head of Johnny Rebel.
Last I heard, it was still there but I don't expect it to last long.
Any disparagement of one particular race would be considered politically correct. Because whites are not victims, or don’t wear victimhood on their sleeves, makes them prime targets.
No the working whities
How about the “Capitol Hill Communists”? That’s whose running the country now, anyways.
They are too young and naive to realize how they are being manipulated. Young skulls full of mush who just need to be reeducated with the truth.
It has an Amish boy on right on the can. So you know it's raciss.
You can only be offended if you give other people power over your emotions. It's a dumb thing to do.
I have several Native friends including a shaman (and priest) and a tribal elder. They laugh and mock white liberals who make a big deal about the name “Redskins.”
Navajo Nation Reservation In Az. Calls Its High School Football Team 'The Redskins'
The Redskins are laughing at the Paleface.
Call the team The Oklahoman. Means virtually the same thing. They can even use the same mascot.
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