I think that this mascot debate is kind of ridiculous. It’s sort of hard to solve an issue like this when both sides are being equally as silly. The NCAA is trying to ban all mascots and team names that contain anything involving Native Americans. This is already in itself a stretch; they are asking the teams to cross out their names from any previous achievments, and change their symbol and name. The teams shouldn’t have to cross out anything, but they also have to admit that some of the names are pretty racist. Not all of them, like the Braves, but the Redskins specifically catches my attention. That’s like having a team with a black guy as their mascot and calling them the Blackskins. It’s pretty blatantly racist.
Also, their doesn’t seem to be much word from the party in question: the Native Americans themselves. The Florida Seminole tribe seemed to be fine with it, but that’s all we’ve heard from. They don’t really get a say themselves, but they also don’t have an evident problem with the names. Right now it seems like the argument is probably a group of white dudes arguing with another group of white dudes about another race. I think they should actually get an opinion from the Native Americans to proceed.
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