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Political Correctness of the Day: The state of Oregon has put eight high schools on notice — their Native American mascots have got to go. A 5-1 vote Thursday by the Board of Education gives the schools five years to make the change, or their state funding is withdrawn.
The decision came after months of emotional debate about tolerance and tradition.
“It is racist. It is harmful. It is shaming. It is dehumanizing,” said Se-ah-dom Edmo, vice president of the Oregon Indian Education Association.
On the opposing side are people like Jim Smith, the principal of Banks High School — home of the Braves — who grew up on the Fort Peck Reservation in Montana. “It’s a chance for us to talk about family and tradition and loyalty,” he said.
Wisconsin is the only other state with restrictions on Native American mascots. The law there requires school boards to prove that their mascots don’t promote discrimination, harassment, or stereotyping if someone complains. Regardless, Native American mascots still abound.
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I fucking hate how this debate is being framed in terms of political correctness. It evokes an image of unctuous insincerity for the sake of appearances, and it provides fuel for the fires stoked by shrill right-wing demagogues who would attack measures like this from that direction.
Banning the use of redfaced depictions of indigeneity from being used in the educational system is a political solution to a well-documented and widely-recognized problem where these depictions do contribute to widely held anti-Native sentiment.
This isn’t a question of limp-wristed liberal tolerance. Nor is it a matter of ‘reverse-racism.’ What it comes down to is a question of respect, and if the hue and cry of the Native community over these depictions can be boiled down to a visceral reaction to blatant disrespect, then this really isn’t a politically correct measure.
It’s the State of Oregon saying “just stop being assholes about it and move on, white people.”
And no amount of whiteboy Jim Smiths who-lived-on-a-reserve-once-and-totally get-the-indians will change the fact that this shit is disrespectful and harmful, and the best step anyone could take is to fucking stop doing it.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m48jjl7N051qzpwi0o1_500.jpg)
Political Correctness of the Day: The state of Oregon has put eight high schools on notice — their Native American mascots have got to go. A 5-1 vote Thursday by the Board of Education gives the schools five years to make the change, or their state funding is withdrawn.
The decision came after months of emotional debate about tolerance and tradition.
“It is racist. It is harmful. It is shaming. It is dehumanizing,” said Se-ah-dom Edmo, vice president of the Oregon Indian Education Association.
On the opposing side are people like Jim Smith, the principal of Banks High School — home of the Braves — who grew up on the Fort Peck Reservation in Montana. “It’s a chance for us to talk about family and tradition and loyalty,” he said.
Wisconsin is the only other state with restrictions on Native American mascots. The law there requires school boards to prove that their mascots don’t promote discrimination, harassment, or stereotyping if someone complains. Regardless, Native American mascots still abound.
[newsday]
I fucking hate how this debate is being framed in terms of political correctness. It evokes an image of unctuous insincerity for the sake of appearances, and it provides fuel for the fires stoked by shrill right-wing demagogues who would attack measures like this from that direction.
Banning the use of redfaced depictions of indigeneity from being used in the educational system is a political solution to a well-documented and widely-recognized problem where these depictions do contribute to widely held anti-Native sentiment.
This isn’t a question of limp-wristed liberal tolerance. Nor is it a matter of ‘reverse-racism.’ What it comes down to is a question of respect, and if the hue and cry of the Native community over these depictions can be boiled down to a visceral reaction to blatant disrespect, then this really isn’t a politically correct measure.
It’s the State of Oregon saying “just stop being assholes about it and move on, white people.”
And no amount of whiteboy Jim Smiths who-lived-on-a-reserve-once-and-totally get-the-indians will change the fact that this shit is disrespectful and harmful, and the best step anyone could take is to fucking stop doing it.
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Excuses.
- The following is how I picture a face-to-face conversation between God and me.
- Me: I know its been a while...
- God: Yeah.
- Me: So I'm not going to make an excuse this time.
- God: Okay.
- Me: I just don't know why it's been so difficult lately.
- God: You said you wouldn't make an excuse.
- Me: I'm not, but-
- God: There you go again.
- Me: Seriously, I'm only trying to understand what's been going on for myself.
- God: That's your problem. It's not about you understanding it by yourself. If you're praying to me about it, then it has to be about us working together on it.
- Me: Then why does it seem like every time I do look to you for help, I end up in the same place again.
- God: Because I'm not saying I'm going to do everything for you! You're not a child anymore. You know what you have to do.
- Me:
- God:
- Me:
- God:
- Me: I've been so busy-
- God: No excuses.
- Me: I'm tired.
- God: No excuses.
- Me: I'm annoyed with church.
- God: No excuses.
- Me: Fine, I just don't want to alright!
- God: There we go. What are you afraid of? That it won't work? That I'm going to tell you to settle? That once you're golden I'm going to tell you to go to the other side of the globe? What is it?
- Me: I guess it's that I don't know if I'm enough.
- God: No excuses.
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Lack of First Nation Self-Governance
When it comes to self-governance, Canadian First Nations are both ahead of and behind their counterparts in the United States. The comparisons are enlightening. So are the contrasts.
In the U.S., for example, no court or government agency…
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