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PostPosted: Thu May 17, 2012 8:27 pm    Post subject: Oregon Board of Education Bans Native American Mascots Reply with quote

http://www.kptv.com/story/18506684/oregon-bans-native-american-mascots-in-schools

This will affect my school, since we're the Scappoose Indians. I honestly think this is bull sh*t and there is nothing wrong with this.
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PostPosted: Thu May 17, 2012 8:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The litigious PC police have to have their way.
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PostPosted: Fri May 18, 2012 1:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Crap I am banned in Oregon!
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PostPosted: Fri May 18, 2012 1:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Also "Orejon" was the spanish name for the local tribe of Native Americans in the Northwest because of their big ear onaments from which the state of Oregon recieved its name.

Soooo what is Oregon going to do to comply with its own mandate? hmmmm?

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PostPosted: Fri May 18, 2012 1:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Make up fictitious groups that happen to resemble Indians! Razz
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PostPosted: Fri May 18, 2012 2:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Make up fictitious groups that happen to resemble Indians! Razz


hmm well considering Orejon is a fictitious name for a real group...they may escape through a hidden loophole depending on how broadly it is enforced. So should the state of Oregon withold all state funding to the state of Oregon if its name is not changed to Jeremy in 5 years??

The irony is killing me.


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PostPosted: Fri May 18, 2012 3:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Maybe a school can call themselves Indians and their mascot be the Taj Mahal?
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PostPosted: Fri May 18, 2012 7:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Seriously. This is really ironic.

We're going to revert to the "Moose" in 2017, so the mascot will remain for our school until then.
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PostPosted: Fri May 18, 2012 8:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have to disagree here... Imagine if a team was named "the blacks", or "the jews"... But "the indians" is ok? Why?
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PostPosted: Fri May 18, 2012 8:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

scubasteve wrote:
I have to disagree here... Imagine if a team was named "the blacks", or "the jews"... But "the indians" is ok? Why?


Because the blacks and the jews where not killed off and had their land taken from them but the Indians btw I am cherokee where slaughtered like pigs I never find indian mascots offensive.
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PostPosted: Fri May 18, 2012 8:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think it's a bunch of PC bullsh*t.

I remember my freshman year of high school where they wanted to ban 'confederate' flags. That lasted for about a week. In reality, what is commonly known as the 'confederate' flag is actually the flag of the Army of Tennessee. But I doubt anyone knew that.

Now, just so we're clear, I'm not going to debate the civil war, etc.
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PostPosted: Fri May 18, 2012 9:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

CSBurks wrote:
I think it's a bunch of PC bullsh*t.

I remember my freshman year of high school where they wanted to ban 'confederate' flags. That lasted for about a week. In reality, what is commonly known as the 'confederate' flag is actually the flag of the Army of Tennessee. But I doubt anyone knew that.

Now, just so we're clear, I'm not going to debate the civil war, etc.


I knew that about the confederate army.
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PostPosted: Fri May 18, 2012 10:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Joker wrote:
Because the blacks and the jews where not killed off and had their land taken from them...


Confused You might want to check your facts on that one...
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PostPosted: Fri May 18, 2012 11:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

scubasteve wrote:
Joker wrote:
Because the blacks and the jews where not killed off and had their land taken from them...


Confused You might want to check your facts on that one...


The black where taken from their land Jews still fight to keep theirs us Natives had it taken from us my facts are right.
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PostPosted: Fri May 18, 2012 11:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Will it ever come down to white people caring that their are sports teams with names like Celtics, Fighting Irish, Vikings, Spartans, Trojans, etc?
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