Posted on 09/22/2016 6:07:00 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
Cornell University Football Coach Roy Istvan apologized to students who were offended by an image he tweeted: an image of two of his players wearing sombreros.
Why were they wearing sombreros? Istvan awards the big hat to the player or players who best represented team spirit on the field after a game.
This practice has displeased some members of MEChA de Cornell, a Mexican student group.
"They're appropriating a culture that isn't theirs and using it as a joke," wrote one student on MEChA's Facebook page, according to Campus Reform. "It's disgusting and I'm ashamed that you can't see that."
The Facebook page's administrators posted a link to Cornell's Bias Response Team and encouraged students to file a complaint against Istvan.
Another person demanded action from the student-government.
"What is your [the Student Assembly's] response to this?" asked the student. "So many of your fellow students' culture is being used as a prop consistently on this campus and it is supported publicly by this university. Will you pass a proposition to recommend a faculty/staff diversity and cultural sensitivity training? Or will you just push it under the rug as you did the Cinco de Octubre event? I expect a response to this from the Minority Liaison."
You'll be hearing from the Minority Liasion! was apparently enough of a threat to persuade Istvan to apologize.
"I am truly sorry for the cultural insensitivity and understand how our expression of pride came at the expense of others in the Cornell community," he wrote on Twitter.
The image was initially retweeted by Cornell's official Twitter account, which prompted one member of student-government to seek an apology from the university.
"Publically supporting this is absolutely unacceptable, and I request that you remove this immediately," the student wrote.
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Hey snowflakes go back to Mexico.
Why doesn’t some coach or administrater EVER defend themselves? How about just simple disagreement? A challenging of accusations?
SOMETHING.
I would see this as an honor but the Mexican students must be ashamed of their culture.
What do I know I’m just an ignorant Texan.
If you're using an electrically-powered computer to access MEChA's Facebook page you're appropriating a culture that isn't yours and using it as a joke.
THAT is why so many comedians now don’t do college campuses:
NO SENSE OF HUMOR.
They’re literally WAITING AROUND for chances to be offended by stuff.
Pepetrually-offended snowflakes of all varieties need a serious beatdown. The ones of the MEChA variety need one-way bus ticket to south of the border. ....after the beatdown.
You mean people of Mexican heritage want to come to America and say Americans are not free to award excellence. Talk about appropriating a culture. Eff off hombres.
Good thing I own a Kleenex factory, right..?
Sombreros and student loans. These little snowflakes will never be able to survive life as adults. I can understand why so many of them are out there pimping anarchy, lawlessness and communism with the BLM thugs. They want the government to tuck them in every night.
The Real World will eat them ALIVE
We need an unapologetic, vain and proud MAN in the White House NOW. Tired of wimps, snowflakes, and criminals leading this country down the toilet.
Deplorable! My eyes.
HERE'S a sombrero.
Is this for real?
I told my feminist colleague that I considered
voting for Hillary, but didn’t want to appropriate
her political culture.
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