What do you think about the use of "Lady", "Rebel" or "Indian" as mascot names?

[underarmor]

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Okay, today I heard of a mascot that could easily be considered insensitive.  A kid checked into our school from Freeburg, Illinois, home of the Mighty Midgets.  So, I ask him why the Midgets, and he said that quite a long time ago, the Freeburg HS basketball team went to the State playoffs, and the press called them the fighting midgets because all the BB players were less than 5'4" tall.  The students liked the name so much, they adopted it as the mascot, and they probably changed "fighting" to "mighty" for alliterative effect.  Mighty Midgets--wonder if there's a thread up in IL criticizing that community.
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I transferred to that school back in the 60's. They wouldnt let me on the team cause I was too tall.5'7"
they said they didnt want to feel like the freak of the team :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

[elhector1]

Having come from a high school in far West Texas that had one of those "insensitive" names, I can tell you that sometimes, a high school's mascot ahs something to do with the people in the area. 

In El Paso, there is a part of the city called the Lower Valley, and it is home to a part of El Paso named Ysleta.  Ysleta is a misspelled Spanish word meaning "small island" (the correct spelling being Isleta).  It got it's name from the southern New Mexico village ("pueblo") of Tiwa Indians that were part of the Pueblo nation.  Many of the tribe moved to or were forced to come to the El Paso area after the Pueblo revolt against the Spaniards in the 1600s.  Most settled along the banks of the Rio Grande, and continued the practice of Christianity for which they were persecuted in their original home, while retaining most of their Indian customs.  This resulted in the establishment of the Mission Trail in the El Paso area, with the main mission being the one in the Ysleta area called "Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo" (Ysleta, Village in the South).  Initially, the school mascot was the Bears, but changed to more accurately reflect the make-up of many of the citizens of the area.  The Tigua tribe has given enthusiastic permission for the use of the mascot name, both to remind people of the struggles such as "carpetbaggers" coming and stealing Indian land grants, to honoring the tribe which still has a reservation in the area.

Seriously, the Tribe is less worried about the team being called Indians, than they are about the state of Texas closing Speaking Rock Casino, whcih enabled the tribe to be self sufficent...all in the name of "no gambling in Texas"...lol...yeah, right. 

CLASS OF 1977

"ONCE AN INDIAN...ALWAYS AN INDIAN!"   

[warpaint101]

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Here is my opinion of this:

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I agree, this Soviet garbage needs to go.
[/quote]I am sick of all of this every year ...who cares