A football team by any other name
It took a marathon school board meeting. It followed months of divisive debate, including two student walkouts. It came after the student newspaper opted for change for similar reasons.
“It” is another high school dropping its longtime “Redskins” mascot, with this one in Idaho proving a particularly contentious exercise.
Hm. Maybe we could shorten these exercises with a new plan: all teams named “Redskins” will alternate between that and “Whiteskins” every week until people get the point.
As reported by the Washington Post, Teton High School (Driggs, Idaho), which sits just outside Yellowstone Park and the Wyoming border, announced Tuesday evening it would retire its “Redskins” mascot at an undetermined date in the near future. The decision followed a formal school board vote in which four of five board members voted to discontinue the Redskins moniker, which has been in use at the school since 1929.
So it actually took the people of Driggs, Idaho 90 years to figure out that calling the high school football team a racist epithet is not a particularly useful or benign thing to do. Humans are so disappointing.
The story is from July; I hope football season isn’t being too painful for the bereft fans of the old name.
But splutter but TRADITION!
But splutter but Political Correctness Gone Made
But splutter splutter It Doesn’t harm Anyone
But splutter But It’s Just A Football Team Name
But but but …. yeah, OK we get it, calling the Team “Niggers” wouldn’t be a good look.
But but but we love our Injuns. We even have Injun friends who come to the games.
MAGA MAGA MAGA USA USA USA
Years back, someone came up with very convincing team merchandise (pins, flags etc.) for the ‘New York Jews,’ the ‘Birmingham Negroes’ etc.