Native American Names in schools
The Oxford Concise Dictionary defines mascot as a person or thing that is supposed to bring good luck, especially one linked to a particular event or organization. I find it incomprehensible why Native Americans would not find their names being used as good luck charms honoring. I would find it personally honoring to be used as a good luck charm. I see it being sort of like the rally monkeys at the last World Series. They were seen as good luck, so a little boy dressed up as a monkey and was brought back to every game. Do you think that little boy was ever offended by being a good luck charm? No, he was proud to be thought of as good luck. Schools have pride in their mascots; they are their good luck charms. It is very hard to throw away your mascot for a new on
He gave me some insight into the offensiveness and mean spiritedness of some Native American names or mascots. A chief is a name that is associated with great honor and respect. It is very mean spirited to use that term. I don't think that it is widely known how offensive the terms are to Native Americans. But name-calling will occur regardless of team names, it's a part of childhood. So I can understand that as a legitimate complaint. Some schools have changed their mascots altogether like Potomac High School in Oxon Hill Maryland who changed their name from the Braves to the Wolverines. I think that if we understood the historical background and its connotation we would not want to continue such uses. While other schools have altered their names like a school in New York that changed their name from the Redskins to the Red hawks. Maybe my lack of contact with people of Native American decent have led me to be rather ignorant about native American issues. It is very derogatory and has historical offenses related to it. What I do think is that not all Native American terms should be blanketed as inappropriate because some really aren't as long as they're presented in an elegant manner. He said that names like the Kansas City Chiefs with their mascot of an arrowhead is very flattering and honoring. We don't have a team called the Mississippi Ni@%*&!.
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