Partial list of racist college sports teams names; racism is a cultural message hammered home daily.
This is just the Native American racist names:
Amateur and school teamsEdit
Colleges and universities
Current Usage
Alcorn State University – Lorman, Mississippi (Braves) Logo is a large A, no indication of Native American imagery being used.
Bacone College – Muskogee, Oklahoma (Warriors) was founded as a Cherokee Baptist Mission school and retains a connection to several tribes.[5]
Bradley University – Peoria, Illinois (Braves)
Central Michigan University – Mount Pleasant, Michigan (Chippewas)
Chowan University – Murfreesboro, North Carolina (Braves)
Florida State University – Tallahassee, Florida (Seminoles) – Use of the Seminole name and imagery is supported by representatives of the Seminole Tribe of Florida and some members of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma, two of three federally recognized Seminole tribes.[6]
University of Hawaii at Manoa – (Hawaiʻi Rainbow Warriors) and (Rainbow Wahine) Since 2000, each team has been allowed to select its own mascot name; most notably, the football team has been simply known as "The Warriors".
Mississippi College – Clinton, Mississippi (Choctaws)
Ottawa University – Ottawa, Kansas (Braves)
San Diego State University – San Diego, California (Aztecs)
University of North Carolina at Pembroke (Braves) – representing a college originally created to educate American Indians
University of Utah – Salt Lake City, Utah (Utes)
Prior Usage
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign – have removed all official university sanction of Native American imagery, but unofficially, still widely used by students and fans – there is considerable controversy over whether the term "Illini" as originally used at the university was directly related to Native American culture at all, or whether the imagery was added after the fact; documentation tends to indicate that "Illini" refers to the state of Illinois itself and not its indigenous peoples.[7]
Eastern Michigan University Hurons – changed to Eagles in 1991.
Texas Tech University Red Raiders have never used Native American imagery.
University of North Dakota dropped its Fighting Sioux nickname in 2012.
William & Mary Tribe – no longer uses any imagery related to indigenous peoples
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sports_team_names_and_mascots_derived_from_indigenous_peoples
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"Reparation" would include getting rid of these cultural ghosts of hate and colonization, otherwise it is all still being subtly encouraged. Repairing the damage of the past is not reverse discrimination, it is just and it costs nothing but a change in attitude.
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"Many teams and fans support the continued use of these names as a long-standing tradition, and citing public opinion polls indicating the names are not offensive to a majority, including Native Americans. The usual statement is that "We are honoring Indians with our mascot", which is disputed for many reasons:[3]
Why, if the intention is to "honor," are non-Indian schools themselves not named, more often, after an Indian leader? Why is it just the schools' mascots?
If having an "Indian" mascot is a way of "honoring" Indians, why are not other entire racial groups scrambling to be so honored?
Is it possible that there's a subconscious cultural pathology involved in White people who decimated Indian culture turning around and making them and their culture a mascot for sporting events?
Is making Indians into one-dimensional mascots a not-so-subtle way of further humiliating Indians while using the language of "honor" to hide that fact, even from ourselves?
Why, if the intention is to "honor" Indian heritage is that same heritage put into the position of being dishonored by the opposing team and fans at a sporting event?
Isn't the premise upon which a mascot is chosen based more on expressing one's power to defeat the opponent than to 'honor' the mascot itself.
Is it possible that the use of the term "honoring" is simply a way to delude oneself into thinking that taking someone else's culture and trivializing it at a sporting event is acceptable?
Do your students integrate into the school's life and curriculum the study of Indian sovereignty issues, US abrogation of treaty obligations, forced removals, Wounded Knee, or the long trail of suffering we who make them our mascots exacted on American Indians?
Is it possible that the fact that "Indians" are used so often as mascots while other racial groups are not, is simply a reflection of modern day White privilege exercising its majority power over a small, relatively powerless minority?
If one is truly "honoring" Indians by using their imagery as a sport mascot, why does that "honoring" not extend to hearing the representative Indian organizations express the desire not to be stereotyped as violent and "savage" and not to have their sacred culture used for fun and games? Where is the "honoring" in turning a deaf ear to these concerns?
Is not the real purpose of a mascot to put fear in the opponent, provide the fans with a means for smashing the opponent's team? Does placing Indian culture in that position "honor" that culture or perpetuate TV Western's stereotype of American Indians?
How is it not paternalistic to say one is "honoring" Indians by using "Indian" mascots when it has stated clearly that such use of Indian imagery and logos in public school mascots is offensive and harmful to Indian students?
How can one defend using an "Indian" mascot by pointing to approval by a single Indian student or a single Indian teacher when the Congress of American Indians, the National Indian Education Association, the Society of Indian Psychologists, and many other Tribal organizations have urged educators to re-think and retire these images?"
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