LOL ok NM... I guess I forgot they were called Dropdead.
― Frobisher the (Viceroy), Thursday, 1 November 2012 15:44 (eleven years ago) link
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― Kickboyface, Tuesday, 6 November 2012 12:34 (eleven years ago) link
http://youtu.be/60DUeV9y5mA
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ole-students-hold-candlelight-march-counter-anti-obama-demonstration-article-1.1198946
― Knut Horowitz, Able-Bodied Investment Banker and Ladies Man (Hurting 2), Friday, 9 November 2012 03:03 (eleven years ago) link
You can't paint all of Ole Miss with the same brush, but every time something like this comes up, I think back to this paragraph written a few years ago when racism reared its ugly head in Oxford for the 239847th time.
It is not that Ole Miss itself condones this or isn't trying to eliminate it. The chancellor, for example, has asked the band to stop playing "From Dixie With Love" if fans don't stop chanting, "The South will rise again."
They say Ole Miss is "The Harvard of the South". I mean, I'm sure the Chancellor up there has had to deal with the same issues, amirite?
― pplains, Friday, 9 November 2012 03:21 (eleven years ago) link
The entire "hey, I told them not to do that" thing with southern universities is some apply-head-to-desk shit. When my friends were at LSU the administration kept telling people not to bring the little flags to the football games that people saw as team-supporting: purple and gold versions of a confederate flag
― d-_-b (mh), Friday, 9 November 2012 14:52 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.myspace.com/unclebuck504/photos/30994483
dying here, perfect expression
― d-_-b (mh), Friday, 9 November 2012 14:53 (eleven years ago) link
my high school's mascot was "the rebels" and all our shit had rebel flags on it! i was on the soccer team, and this was v annoying to deal with. when my friends and i protested it we got loads of shit! a pal of mine was slammed between a door+wall repeatedly by the football team. it was a huge hoopla. 10 yrs later they finally re-evaluated it
― flag this post and die (roxymuzak), Friday, 9 November 2012 16:37 (eleven years ago) link
this was all complicated by the fact that our top football rival was a mostly black high school
GO MHS!!!!!!!
― flag this post and die (roxymuzak), Friday, 9 November 2012 16:38 (eleven years ago) link
I never got the UNLV Rebels. Is that supposed to be some sort of Utah Jazz thing?
― pplains, Friday, 9 November 2012 18:51 (eleven years ago) link
my mom's suggestion during that controversy was to just be rebels like marlon brando in the wild one and everyone start wearing leather jackets and caps, soooo embarrassing mom still smdh
― flag this post and die (roxymuzak), Friday, 9 November 2012 19:00 (eleven years ago) link
rebel without a costume
― crüt, Friday, 9 November 2012 19:03 (eleven years ago) link
lol roxmom
― mookieproof, Friday, 9 November 2012 19:06 (eleven years ago) link
bless her heart
― flag this post and die (roxymuzak), Friday, 9 November 2012 19:15 (eleven years ago) link
I can't beleive that after all that nonsense was said and done, they came up with the Black Bear mascot.
Like, no, of course I'm not now thinking of Paul Winfield or anyone.
― pplains, Friday, 9 November 2012 21:29 (eleven years ago) link
utah black bears are sooo cute. they are fatter than the ones here
― flag this post and die (roxymuzak), Friday, 9 November 2012 23:45 (eleven years ago) link
wait we arent talking about utah anymore and possibly never were. ole miss has no claim to black bears imo and have mishandled this situation and indeed all situations
― flag this post and die (roxymuzak), Friday, 9 November 2012 23:46 (eleven years ago) link
i really do wonder when washington of all places will decide to change their team's name, i mean they changed their nba team from the bullets to the wizards because it was controversial.
― sug ones (omar little), Friday, 9 November 2012 23:54 (eleven years ago) link
i was just talking about that earlier! it fuckin boggles the mind. our nation's capital! i know washington city paper doesnt print the name anymore, maybe other media too
― flag this post and die (roxymuzak), Saturday, 10 November 2012 00:04 (eleven years ago) link
tbf dan snyder probably charges them to use the name
― mookieproof, Saturday, 10 November 2012 00:08 (eleven years ago) link
they call them the pigskins, lol
if ole miss is gonna get right with the world they probably need to stop referring to themselves as ole miss while they are at it. im sure thats been covered here
― flag this post and die (roxymuzak), Saturday, 10 November 2012 00:10 (eleven years ago) link
should change it to olé miss
― mookieproof, Saturday, 10 November 2012 00:12 (eleven years ago) link
washington city paper conducted a reader poll to rename the team and pigskins won. the washington half smokes did p well as i recall. would become a mega fan and buy all their merch and move to washington if they were actually named that
― flag this post and die (roxymuzak), Saturday, 10 November 2012 00:14 (eleven years ago) link
olé ms. to be really PC.
xp
― nickn, Saturday, 10 November 2012 00:15 (eleven years ago) link
can never never ever get over the cleveland indians logo
― zvookster, Saturday, 10 November 2012 00:35 (eleven years ago) link
I seem to remember the Washington Dukes (as in Ellington) got a bunch of votes. If a professional sports team had Duke Ellington as their logo, I would do as roxymuzak re: megafandom.
― 5-Hour Enmity (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 10 November 2012 01:25 (eleven years ago) link
When Arkansas State was changing its name from the Indians, there was a lobby for the "Engines", because, you know, Jonesboro is such a train town and has the locomotive engines and whatnot.
And everyone else went Riiiight, that's very clever of you.
― pplains, Saturday, 10 November 2012 02:08 (eleven years ago) link
ha that took me a sec
― goole, Saturday, 10 November 2012 17:45 (eleven years ago) link
gawd
― 乒乓, Saturday, 10 November 2012 17:54 (eleven years ago) link
barf
― well if it isn't old 11 cameras simon (gbx), Saturday, 10 November 2012 18:30 (eleven years ago) link
It's so embarrassing but it seems like this whole "maybe we should be sensitive to Native Americans" thing has only hit the mainstream like really recently (like the past couple of years)
― goya cézanne (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 10 November 2012 21:32 (eleven years ago) link
I have been feeling shitty about the Redskins name for over two decades.
― how's life, Saturday, 10 November 2012 21:35 (eleven years ago) link
on the bright side, native americans are the only minority gwen stefani has apologized to, out of the half dozen or so she's dressed up as over the years
― a man d'Balmer (some dude), Saturday, 10 November 2012 21:37 (eleven years ago) link
Maybe nationally, but every few years it seems like there's a flareup surrounding a high school or college mascot. I remember frequent bullshit around Chief Illiniwek (University of Illinois mascot), all about "No no, the mascot is respecting and honoring Native American tradition!"
― 5-Hour Enmity (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 10 November 2012 21:44 (eleven years ago) link
Same thing with my high school... the Boise Braves. Don't remember the name of the mascot but the school's old gymnasium used to have a mural on the side of it with a "brave" looking tough and holding a tomahawk. It eventually got painted over sometime in the late 90s.
― Frobisher the (Viceroy), Saturday, 10 November 2012 22:59 (eleven years ago) link
And there's always the "Some teams are called the Vikings, but you don't see any Norwegians protesting!" people. (NB: my high school team was the Vikings)
― nickn, Saturday, 10 November 2012 23:04 (eleven years ago) link
My middle school mascot was the Trojans, but I see it has been renamed the Comets, no doubt due to protest from Turkish-Americans.
― how's life, Saturday, 10 November 2012 23:15 (eleven years ago) link
I was all about doing the tomahawk chop for the Atlanta Braves when I was 6.
― crüt, Saturday, 10 November 2012 23:28 (eleven years ago) link
tom a. hawkchop would be a good name
― Albert Crampus (NickB), Saturday, 10 November 2012 23:45 (eleven years ago) link
for a racist
lol
― Tome Cruise (Matt P), Saturday, 10 November 2012 23:45 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah Tomahawk Chop was huge growing up. The Atlanta Braves mascot (Chief Noc-a-Homa) is pretty racist. But i really feel like it's not going away anytime soon cos it's so embedded in the Brave history. And now the Black Lips have a song about him and you see him on stickers at bars and stuff. Hipsters love their kitschy retro Native American racism.
http://bibliothecarianovella.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/chiefnocahoma.jpg
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 11 November 2012 17:30 (eleven years ago) link
Is it racist to wear a traditional Indian saree or sherwani for an engagement photo when not Indian?
― *tera, Sunday, 11 November 2012 23:50 (eleven years ago) link
probably not if your partner is Indian, and you're having an Indian wedding.
― Infamous dickbiscuits (silby), Sunday, 11 November 2012 23:55 (eleven years ago) link
Neither is the case....
― *tera, Monday, 12 November 2012 00:17 (eleven years ago) link
what's the motivation for wearing the sari?
― Inconceivable (to the entire world) (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 12 November 2012 00:19 (eleven years ago) link
No clue, just seemed odd for a white couple to dress this way for an engagement photo. Friends of friends on FB. Bindis and everything, looks like a poorly casted Bollywood film still.
― *tera, Monday, 12 November 2012 00:30 (eleven years ago) link
i think it's a little weird. when i saw rachel getting married i went through a mini-cycle of irritation, questioning and qualified acceptance about that kind of thing, though. like i could kind of see just taking a magpie approach to wedding customs and admiring the aesthetic of indian wedding clothes and incorporating them in your wedding, if i tilted my head and squinted. like i guess it's still cultural appropriation, but of the banal kind we all participate in daily to some extent--i ended up talking myself into viewing it no differently than my love of mexican food, or something. definitely depends on the execution--no one in the movie affects a comedy accent or anything.
i used to be more militant about this kind of thing (90s gwen stefani bindi shit) (harajuku girl thing is still unacceptable) but i don't know. i'm old and tired.
― horseshoe, Monday, 12 November 2012 00:44 (eleven years ago) link
yeah that's racist imo
― Inconceivable (to the entire world) (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 12 November 2012 00:50 (eleven years ago) link
We were considering serving indian food at our wedding, is that racist?
― ya bish called wanda (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 12 November 2012 01:22 (eleven years ago) link