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  • Exploiting a stereotype

    04/09/2005 1:27:58 PM PDT · by Graybeard58 · 19 replies · 685+ views
    Waterbury Republican-American ^ | April 9, 2005 | Editorial
    Through their activism, they got TV stations to stop showing reruns of "The Lone Ranger" because of the way Tonto was depicted (by Jay Silverheels, an American Indian actor). If Indians had their way, the Cleveland and Atlanta baseball teams and the Washington NFL team would follow the lead of hundreds of high schools and colleges that were browbeaten into adopting non-Indian mascots. Indians don't even like being called Indians, preferring Native American to avoid, as they put it, "the dehumanizing stereotype of the bloodthirsty savage." (But they don't seem to mind their stereotype as scalpers of patrons to their...
  • Fighting Whites inspire imitators (freerepublic.com mentioned in unflattering terms)

    01/08/2003 4:17:47 PM PST · by HighWheeler · 58 replies · 354+ views
    Washington Times ^ | January 6, 2003 | Valerie Richardson
    <p>DENVER — Don't be surprised if the hottest ticket in college basketball this season turns out to be a match between the Fighting Whites and the North American Stealers.</p> <p>The pride of the University of Northern Colorado, the Whites won only two games in their intramural basketball league last year, but their idea of turning the tables on schools with American Indian mascot names has spread like wildfire.</p>