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Nooo not the computer.. politically correct. Where do we draw the line? I'm sitting here reading this and its ******* pathetic. Why on Earth is this even an issue? It's now racist to have a team with a native american name???




THE DAILY FIX
By CARL BIALIK AND JASON FRY


NCAA Bars Seminoles, Sioux;
How About Those Leprechauns?
August 8, 2005 5:07 p.m.

After decades of games between Fighting Illini, Fighting Sioux and Seminoles, college sports regulators have moved to eliminate Native American-inspired nicknames. Yet the new rule is, inevitably, complicated and selective.

For instance, Florida's Seminole leaders have given their blessing to Florida State's use of the Seminoles nickname, as the Tampa Tribune reported in June. Yet other Seminoles outside the state have opposed the nickname, as Suzan Shown Harjo wrote in Indian Country Today. "All the schools claim that their 'Native' identities are traditional, while at the same time missing that the tradition is racist," Ms. Harjo wrote. "The only righteous thing to do with such a dishonorable tradition is consign it to history and move on to an enlightened era."

But the National Collegiate Athletic Association is applying the rule, ostensibly barring "hostile or abusive" nicknames, only to Native American tribes from within the U.S. "It has already let San Diego State off the hook after the school argued that the Aztecs culture was not a 'North American culture, but a culture based in what is now Mexico,' according to a university spokesman," Bob Ford writes in the Philadelphia Inquirer. "That's a neat piece of scrambling, even if it doesn't say much for the geography department and would come as a great shock to the drafters of the North American Free Trade Agreement."
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The rule also applies only to championships, so teams can keep their names during the regular season, and throughout the Div. I football season, whose bowl games aren't regulated by the NCAA. "llinois Fighting Illini? You play in the NCAA Tournament, you're the Illinois Generics," Wendell Barnhouse writes in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. "Utah Utes? You're the Utah Youths. Florida State Seminoles? The Florida State Legislators, maybe?"

How about other cultural mascots? Chicago Tribune columnist Mike Downey is Irish, and likes Notre Dame's nickname Fighting Irish. "Yet if we get rid of some, mustn't we get rid of all?" Mr. Downey asks. "Can a school really get away with calling itself the Fighting Irish in the wake of this NCAA posse's vigilant PC crackdown? Doesn't this scurrilous nickname need to go? Isn't it time for the leprechaun to sleep with the fishes?"

To that argument, Bill Plaschke offers a cogent reply: "Many feel that allowing Native Americans to force nickname changes is as silly as allowing folks from Ireland to mess with Notre Dame. Yet few of those critics are from a culture that has been stolen, hidden and now demeaned. In other words, Notre Dame fans, leprechauns weren't real people."

Edited, Mon Aug 15 09:54:44 2005 by Katie

If I was a Native American, I'd be more upset about the Pontiac Aztek.

That is one ugly-*** chunk of metal.

If I had a lot more Indian (I have some Native American blood so I can say Indian) blood than I do, I might be able to figure out a way to be offended about those team names.

Of course it'd be way down on the list below bringing disease and drugs to my land and relentlessly herding my people Westwards to make room for Europe's rejects. But that's just me.

Most American Indians prefer that term to "Native American". Keep in mind that tribes have elected councils that are authorized to represent the tribe's registered members. Like any democracy, one individual's views (or two, in this case) don't hold much sway. An overwhelming majority of the tribes do hold this practice in some contempt, but I'm sure it doesn't match their contempt for the violation of their trust, the outrage at the BIA, the desperation at their poverty and high diabetes and alcoholism rates...

Then again, the greater US population can afford to ***** about the War Against Terror AND fur coats, so why the hell not?

Why do you continue to post Varrus? Its an honest question. You are almost always subdefault. Come on fess up, who's sock are you?

That was a quick sock, Bhod.

Not me, I do find it amusing that every obvious sock or troll since I left was some how attributed to me. When I troll I troll with my main.

I only have one sock and that is the one I use to post on the WoW boards and be all friendly and helpful without ruining my street rep of being an ***.

I second that emotion.

Thundra called. He wants his cross back.

I wrote to GM about that "auto-mobile" when it first came out...



It is quite apparent they didn't listen to my plea.

John Wayne's not dead, he's frozen! And as soon as we find a cure for cancer we're gonna thaw out the Duke and he's gonna be pretty pissed off. Why? Have you ever taken a cold shower? Well multiply that by fifteen million times, that's how pissed off the Duke's gonna be. I'm gonna get the Duke, and John Cassavetes, and Sam Peckinpah and a case of whiskey and drive down to Texas...