New York State, a corrupt sewer so toxic that it just elected Cuomo’s Girl Friday who ran on a platform of letting junkies batter the elderly for cash like pinatas, has finally decided to crack down.
No, not on the criminals who have sent crime rates soaring to new highs while filling morgues and hospitals.
Gov. Hochul has made it clear that murderers, muggers and rapists, or as she changed the law to define them “incarcerated individuals”, will have the run of the place as long as they vote for her.
But Indian mascots, now that’s a bridge too far.
The New York State Department of Education (NYSDE) Thursday ordered all public schools in the state to stop using Native American references in team names, logos and mascots by the end of the 2022-23 school year, or face penalties.
The order, which was announced in a memo to districts statewide, characterized the use of Native American-themed imagery in schools as discriminatory.
Schools which fail to comply will be considered in willful violation of New York’s Dignity for all Students Act, Baldwin wrote. Consequences for violating the Dignity Act include “the removal of school officers and the withholding of state aid,” the memo read.
I suspect that school systems with Indian mascots are places with higher test scores and literacy rates than your average Bronx school which lacks Indian mascots, but has metal detectors.
This also strikes me as potentially a First Amendment issue. And a completely unneeded intervention in the running of local schools. So New York is getting its California regulatory fascism on.
This is coming from the same folks currently having meltdowns over Florida’s Stop Woke Act.
It’s wrong to tell schools not to sexually groom 7-year-olds, but individual autonomy and the educational system can go hang if there’s an Indian mascot on the premises.
What’s next? Demanding land acknowledgments, flag burnings and shouts of “Allahu Akbar” over the PA?
Canisteo-Greenwood, in Section 5, set a Dec. 12 Board of Education meeting to make a recommendation on whether to keep its Redskins mascot.
No decision has yet been reached about the future use of Indians as the name of teams at the Wappingers School District’s Roy C. Ketcham High School in Dutchess County.
“This is very, very preliminary at this point,” Wappingers Superintendent of Schools Dr. Dwight Bonk said of the state Education Department directive, explaining the district will both consult with its attorneys and seek more information from the state.
The Roy C. Ketcham High School ranks in “the top 10% of all schools in New York for overall test scores (math proficiency is top 10%, and reading proficiency is top 10%) for the 2018-19 school year.”
“The percentage of students achieving proficiency in math is 92% (which is higher than the New York state average of 54%) for the 2018-19 school year. The percentage of students achieving proficiency in reading/language arts is 94% (which is higher than the New York state average of 52%) for the 2018-19 school year.”
Need I say more? More New York schools need Indian mascots. Desperately.
It isn’t Native American Indians pushing such things, but leftist groups using Native Americans as cover.
I’ve got a solution. Just change all these Indian mascots to “the Rebels” with a short goofy little confederate colonel mascot and watch their heads explode like Martians hearing Slim Whitman. Don’t blink or you’ll miss the complete 180 in their ‘thinking’.
The Pansies would be my top pick for teams doing away with their Indian mascots. Who could be offended by a flower? And it would look nice on their helmets and jerseys. It could be the new most popular mascot.
lol
I think it was UC Santa Cruz who called their teams the “Banana Slugs”
Way back in 1970, well ahead of their time 🙂
Rescind the Red Spins.
Attenuate the Amerinds.
Scrap the Scalp Harvesters.
Abandon the Aleuts.
Euthanize the Utes.
Savage the Sioux
Banish the Black Feet.
Punish the Pawnee.
Negate the Naucets.
Minimize the Mic Mac.
Who the hell do these peoples think they are?
Part of some kind of national history?
To be memorialized?
Like they somehow belong here?
Well, no one gets written into the script without permission. The Guild of Organized Narrative Inventors said so. We voted on it.
Are you opposing democracy?
I think there are people who like to cause trouble that are behind the opposition to Indian names for sports teams, whether they be at schools or for professional sports teams. Rush Limbaugh once reported on members of the Navaho were in Washington DC for an observance celebrating the use of their language in WWII to prevent the Japanese from learning American plans. Several of the wore Washington Redskins jackets. This means that not all Native Americans find Redskins offensive as some have alleged.
My district has for years had the permission of the local tribe to honor them by having our mascot named after them.
My high school team was the Warriors, symbolized by the full eastern forest headdress.
My high school team was called the Vikings. Who could object to a bunch of white guys who ran around terrorizing coastal towns and isolated monasteries, inflicting murder and mayhem, taking slaves, and destroying irreplaceable artworks?
Someone could name their team the “Skraelings”. I wonder what the reaction would be?