Shawnee Mission School District s mascot policy could change
Native American leaders, teachers, students agree
and last updated 2020-12-21 20:09:47-05
KANSAS CITY, Mo. â Current and former students, along with Native American tribal leaders, demanded a new school mascot policy during Monday night s Shawnee Mission School Board meeting.
Speakers during the meeting s public comment session singled out the Indian mascot used by Shawnee Mission North High School. We are not caricatures, Shawnee Tribe Chief Ben Barnes told the board.
Barnes urged the board to take a stand at this moment in history. People are not mascots, he said
Glory Obi, a senior at SM North High School, presented a passionate argument for eliminating the Indian mascot at her school. Obi told the board the mascot is offensive and makes it hard to attend sporting events.
Anonymous
said.
The Celtics are pissed off and flying from Dublin to Boston right now to beat the crap out of the entire organization.
Anonymous
said.
There are rumors of a flotilla of Pirates sailing up the Missouri with rings in their ears, cutlasses in their teeth, and mayhem in their minds, about to rampage on the Park University Campus to wreak vengeance for denigrating their profession by choosing a Pirate as their mascot.
Is there no end to this fad?
Anonymous
said.
Haskell Indian Nations University is an inter-tribal Native American University. This means that only Native Americans can attend. So if us so called white people have no say over Haskell how about the Indians having no say over what we do.
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