Comments on: BANNING INDIAN MASCOTS AND OTHER STUPID IDEAS

By: ativan

ativan — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 01:36:28 +0000

ativan…

aku azowiwu…

By: terri jean

terri jean — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 09:21:41 +0000

You’re right. The mascot issue is a stupid idea. To continue this racist, hateful tradition is absolutly stupid… and for all those who turn a blind eye to it, poking fun at those fighting to right indigenous wrongs, are also quite stupid. Various forms of racism have been accepted by Americans for hundreds of years, but that does not make them right. Women had to fight for their rights, as did African Americans and so on. Now it’s time to FINALLY do the same for indigenous people. The mascot issue is a step in the right direction and with time, it will be seen as the racist act that it is.

By: Francine

Francine — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 19:41:23 +0000

The NCAA are in their right minds when they say that thery want to ban the native american mascots. Its tright. Unless you actuall yask if you can use their name in anything, It shouldn’t be legal. Its just like the music business, your not suppose to copy the labels names in any way. Its the same. take a look in their shoes.see how it feels to be ,is directed with your own culture. The ncaa has the right. I’m with them 100%.

By: Macmind - Conservative Commentary and Common Sense

Macmind - Conservative Commentary and Common Sense — Mon, 08 Aug 2005 16:31:43 +0000

It’s time to shoot an arrow at the NCAA

The NCAA has long been out of control and working beyond it’s intended purpose. I am glad that my alumni FSU isn’t taking this sitting down:

By: Jo's Cafe

Jo's Cafe — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 10:50:03 +0000

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By: LKM

LKM — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 05:19:59 +0000

From what I’ve read elsewhere, it’s not just school symbols, but traditional names too that the NCAA doesn’t like….Florida Seminoles and Fighting Illini would be unnacceptable along with the Utes. What is next, will whole states named to honor Indian tribes such as Illinois and Utah be considered politically incorrect also? And what about Indiana, for goodness sakes, which means Land of the Indians?

I graduated from the University of Illinois and collect vintage university memorabilia. Among my treasures are a pair of 1920’s era heavy iron bookends in an Indian Chief motif made and signed by the Mining and Metallurgy Dept. and a wonderful Indian in headdress dish constructed and signed in the Dept. of Ceramic Engineering in the 50’s. These are not caricatures or “mascots” but beautiful, thoughtful representations of Native Indians such as Remington might have sculpted. Where is the harm?

And why is any of this the NCAA’s business?

By: protein wisdom

protein wisdom — Sat, 06 Aug 2005 18:41:58 +0000

Concerned, guilt-ridden Whitey to Native Americans: "WE'LL tell you when you're outraged, Chief."

Half Canadian reminds me of this 2002 John Miller piece, which references a famous (and now ignored) Sports Illustrated poll gauging Native American opinion on the use of Indian nicknames, mascots, characters, and symbols by amateur and professional sp…

By: MD

MD — Sat, 06 Aug 2005 17:33:58 +0000

This ideological conformism has reached the juvenile. The NCAA has appointed itself as the protector of the sensitivities of people the NCAA couldn’t give two hoots about: Native Americans.

Wasn’t it the communist party that said that “all will be judged politically?”

It’s no longer enough to participate and play basketball well; one now has to be ideologically pure.

By: Fritz

Fritz — Sat, 06 Aug 2005 17:02:47 +0000

Rick,
Also, the Sooners is another reminder of how we stole the land of the native Americans, a double insult! It is only a matter of time when athletes will be prohibited from play at Augusta National.

By: docdave

docdave — Sat, 06 Aug 2005 16:22:50 +0000

RE: BANNING INDIAN MASCOTS AND OTHER STUPID IDEAS

For the NCAA pc has taken a turn further to the left. I smell the ugly stink of the ACLU in this ban. I wonder if the NCAA is being advised or pressured by them.