sportschick said:
CollegeJournalist said:
I've never understood the whole controversy about Indian/Native American mascots...
It's OK to run their asses out off their own land, so long as we don't name a sports team after them 300 years later.
Just like Ole Miss no longer uses Colonel Reb...whatever.
The thin skin of people in this country is amazing to me.
The problems is that most people claim they're "honoring" native Americans with these bullshirt team nicknames.
In general, it's in no way an honor and much closer to being a racist stereotype. Course then they say people who object have "thin skins."
Until they become Native American and have those stereotypes shoved at them on a regular basis, they can shove it.
But, my question is are there really that many outraged Native Americans making vocal outcries against team nicknames or is this a bunch of spineless stuffed shirts trying to do some political correctness public relations all in the interest of making themselves look good?
If there really is that much pain and anguish caused to the Native American community, then ok, let's discuss changing nicknames. But, if this is Miles and his Armani thugs dreaming this up, well, F off. And my guess is it's way more of the latter than the former.
And also---where does one draw the line in the proverbial sand? Are we one more nasty storm season away from removing Hurricanes, Tide, Green Wave from our lexicon? Or do we have to eliminate Rebels and Yankees at some point to avoid offending Civil War sensibilities? Seems like there's bigger fish to fry out there (my apologies to any fish who may take offense at that remark).
Full disclosure: I'm an Illinois grad, so I'm certainly not an impartial observer on this topic.