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High school students walk out over 'Redskins' name change
CNN ^ | Wed December 10, 2014 | Katia Hetter and Eliott C. McLaughlin

Posted on 12/14/2014 8:11:06 PM PST by MinorityRepublican

(CNN) -- The debate over the "Redskins" name in sports isn't just at the professional level.

Students at an Oklahoma City high school were refusing to go into Capitol Hill High School on Wednesday morning because their mascot no longer has the controversial name, according to CNN affiliate KOCO.

Dozens of students stood on the lawn outside the building rather than heading into class.

The city's public school board voted Monday to change the name in response to Native American students' feelings that the mascot name was offensive. The vote to change the mascot, which has been in place since the 1920s, was unanimous.

School administrators will immediately start phasing out the Redskins mascot and will create a committee of current and former students and community members to pick a new mascot before the end of the spring semester, spokeswoman Tierney Tinnin said in a statement, according to The Oklahoman.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Oklahoma
KEYWORDS: mascot; redskins
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1 posted on 12/14/2014 8:11:06 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

the madness continues . . .


2 posted on 12/14/2014 8:15:47 PM PST by txnativegop (Tired of liberals, even a few in my own family.)
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To: txnativegop

It is without end.


3 posted on 12/14/2014 8:16:34 PM PST by deadrock (I am someone else.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

“White Devils” has a nice ring to it.


5 posted on 12/14/2014 8:18:02 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Refuse to comply. Continue to call the team the Redskins. What can the PC gestapo do to you?


6 posted on 12/14/2014 8:18:11 PM PST by IronJack
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To: MinorityRepublican

I vote for “The Kennewick Men”


7 posted on 12/14/2014 8:19:14 PM PST by Scrambler Bob (/s /s /s /s /s, my replies are "liberally" sprinkled with them behind every word and letter.!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

“...The vote to change the mascot, which has been in place since the 1920s, was unanimous...”

About 90 years of history did not have a single defender?


8 posted on 12/14/2014 8:20:49 PM PST by Monterrosa-24 (...even more American than a French bikini and a Russian AK-47.)
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To: MinorityRepublican
Oklahoma City High, meet your new mascot, officially sanctioned and guaranteed not to be offensive, except for the intolerant among us...


9 posted on 12/14/2014 8:21:43 PM PST by SamAdams76
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To: Telepathic Intruder

>>“White Devils” has a nice ring to it.<<

The fighting “My Grandmother was Dutch”s


10 posted on 12/14/2014 8:22:45 PM PST by freedumb2003 (AGW: Settled Science? If so, there would only be one model and it would agree with measurements)
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To: MinorityRepublican

If a few American Indians get their indignation up over Red Skins and “our guilty, morally superior betters” cave on this, just wait until the muslims get rolling. There is nothing that muslims are not offended by.


11 posted on 12/14/2014 8:26:34 PM PST by Enten (I don't have islamophobia...I do have islamonausea)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Devils?

Well, denial of its existence is one of cuts main goals

But I would not even allow my kids to attend a school whose mascot is a devil much less root for the team

Un believable


12 posted on 12/14/2014 8:31:10 PM PST by stanne
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To: txnativegop
No longer The Rebels as in Johnny Reb at Denver's South High School. Its the Gargoyles now. Pretty silly and sad at the same time.
13 posted on 12/14/2014 8:31:42 PM PST by dhs12345
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To: SamAdams76

Is that a boy or a girl? Or somewhere in between?


14 posted on 12/14/2014 8:32:41 PM PST by Veggie Todd (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. TJ)
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To: Scrambler Bob
I vote...


15 posted on 12/14/2014 8:33:31 PM PST by Ken H (What happens on the internet stays on the internet.)
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To: MinorityRepublican
The new Capitol Hill HS mascot:


16 posted on 12/14/2014 8:35:47 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: Ken H

16 seconds.....


17 posted on 12/14/2014 8:36:49 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: dhs12345

the old Southwest High School in Fort Worth were the Rebels.

mascot was a Confederate cavalry officer.

large black student body — name and mascot have to go, racist.

Now the school is (or was the Cavaliers)and mascot was dressed as a 17th century English cavalry officer.

I never could figure out why they did that. It cost a lot of money essential for a minor semantic change.


19 posted on 12/14/2014 8:37:47 PM PST by txnativegop (Tired of liberals, even a few in my own family.)
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To: SamAdams76

Call me naive.

I never realized that people were so angry and suspicious of everyone else. I am starting to become angry and suspicious of them. So much for racial harmony.


20 posted on 12/14/2014 8:38:35 PM PST by dhs12345
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