rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

LOL ok NM... I guess I forgot they were called Dropdead.

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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ole-students-hold-candlelight-march-counter-anti-obama-demonstration-article-1.1198946

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?

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

http://www.myspace.com/unclebuck504/photos/30994483

dying here, perfect expression

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

this was all complicated by the fact that our top football rival was a mostly black high school

GO MHS!!!!!!!

I never got the UNLV Rebels. Is that supposed to be some sort of Utah Jazz thing?

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

rebel without a costume

lol roxmom

bless her heart

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.

utah black bears are sooo cute. they are fatter than the ones here

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

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.

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

tbf dan snyder probably charges them to use the name

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

should change it to olé miss

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

olé ms. to be really PC.

xp

can never never ever get over the cleveland indians logo

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.

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.

ha that took me a sec

gawd

barf

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)

I have been feeling shitty about the Redskins name for over two decades.

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

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)

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!"

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.

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)

My middle school mascot was the Trojans, but I see it has been renamed the Comets, no doubt due to protest from Turkish-Americans.

I was all about doing the tomahawk chop for the Atlanta Braves when I was 6.

tom a. hawkchop would be a good name

for a racist

lol

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

Is it racist to wear a traditional Indian saree or sherwani for an engagement photo when not Indian?

probably not if your partner is Indian, and you're having an Indian wedding.

Neither is the case....

what's the motivation for wearing the sari?

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.

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.

yeah that's racist imo

We were considering serving indian food at our wedding, is that racist?