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  • Long Island University to ditch ‘Blackbirds’ nickname: It’s ‘offensive’ and ‘racist’

    05/15/2019 7:58:09 AM PDT · by C19fan · 106 replies
    College Fix ^ | May 14, 2019 | Greg Piper
    Long Island University-Brooklyn will be scrapping its 84-year-old mascot/nickname of “Blackbirds” this fall as a result of an athletics program merger with its Post campus. But that’s not all: LIU President Kimberly Cline noted she “had heard” the nickname name “is an offensive racist mascot,” according to the New York Post. At the end of March, Cline had told a group of a dozen concerned LIU-Brooklyn alumni that “Blackbirds” was to be replaced “for a few reasons.”