North Dakota decisions end Fighting Sioux nickname
We read:
"A state Supreme Court ruling and a Board of Higher Education decision have retired for good the University of North Dakota’s Fighting Sioux nickname after a four-year legal battle.
The court ruled Thursday that the board had the authority to dump the nickname at any time. The court rejected an appeal that sought to delay action.
A motion Thursday at the board’s regularly scheduled meeting in Mayville to reconsider its vote in May to retire the nickname died after nobody seconded it.
Claus Lembke, of Bismarck, the board member who made the failed motion after the court handed down its ruling, said the board was “giving in to a minority of people on the issue.”
In their ruling, the justices said the board had the authority to change the nickname before a Nov. 30 deadline set in a settlement with the NCAA. A group of eight Spirit Lake Sioux tribal members who want the school to keep the nickname were seeking to have the court bar any decision before the deadline.
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So the Left have a win on the ground that the name offends Indians, even though the Indians are not offended. It's just Leftist hate of other people's customs.
8 comments:
JJ, you should know by now that leftists always knows what's best for everyone.
And the irony in all this is that the tribe loses because its name is now stricken from history (OK, at least the university's history.)
Maybe the new nickname could be the Panty-Waisted Sissy Mary's in honor of effeminate transsexuals. They have proven they do not deserve the nickname Fighting Sioux.
I personally prefer "Negotiating Susans", but that's just me.
I could just imagine what a team defeated by North Dakota in an athletic contest would say if they adopted the name suggested in the third comment: "I can't believe we lost to a bunch of Panty-Waisted Sissy Marys!" That would certainly be embarrassing...
It would be interesting to know just what percentage of the tribe actually wanted this change.
The North Dakota Inoffensive Persons! Go team!
(Gawd, they'd actually sell a ton of merchandise of the first year or so if they went with some the suggestions in this thread, wouldn't they?)
The Non-Judgmentals would be good, too.
How about the Dakota Custers. A mascot of Col. Custer, or hell, put a star on him and say you are honoring General Custer, a liberator of American Slaves during the Civil War.
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