Michigan legislative action thread
Wouldn’t we have to change the names of a whole bunch of Michigan towns and cities.
After all, one explanation of the name “Saginaw” is where the Sauk were (Before they were exterminated by the Ojibwa indians)
that’s racist, what about the offense to the spartans, vikings, trojans, celtics..?
Where does the US Constitution authorize the Feds going after mascots? Isn't that part of freedom of speech?
And wouldn’t the removal of Indian mascots be counted as a way to erase the memory of Indians in America. You know, like the Muslims erase any prior civilization to lands they conquer?
Oops, ignore my prior 2 posts, I read what I expected to see. The Feds were actually shutting down a State of Michigan effort to elimination Indian mascots.
If that's the case, shouldn't the University of Notre Dame change its mascot because it hurts Irish-Americans' self-esteem and learning?
That's strange, because according to the story, the effort to get rid of Indian mascots was by the Michigan Department of Civil Rights, which appears to be an executive department agency within a Republican state administration.
But the U.S. Education Department's Office of Civil Rights has denied the state's complaint, according to the Associated Press. Federal officials say Michigan officials provided no specific examples of racial incidents or American Indian students suffering specific harm because of the reported discrimination.
Talk about oversized federal government. It's totally absurd when the feds presumably have the power to determine what the mascots of the local schools in Michigan are going to be!
BTW, how many students in Michigan schools consider themselves American Indians, anyway?