My mascot editorial was recently published, and I figured I'd share it with the YouthNOISE crowd to gauge a response from the pro-PC kids.
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Mascot politics
Schools being ripped for "ethnically offensive" team names
BY JOEY DAUBEN
The Ellis County Press
WAXAHACHIE - The Indians' mascot became emroiled in controversy a few years back.
Supporters of local Native American tribes and the politically correct crowd argued such a name was offensive and intolerant.
The same people stated the Waxahachie Independent School District should choose a name that fits a more inclusive, tolerant view of the nation's first settlers.
I wonder if they gave any thought to the city's name.
Spruce, a Dallas high school, was pressured to get rid of the "Apaches" mascot and adopt "Timberwolves" instead.
Just recently, Frisco High School had to re-name their mascot from "Coons" to "Raccoons" after several black students and parents found the name "offensive."
In California, it is now against the law - that's right, illegal - to name a high school mascot after "ethnically insensitive" characters.
Indians, Warriors, Apaches, Redskins, Braves, Scalpers, etc. are now banned as a result of the state legislature's pro-PC law.
After University of Northern Colorado refused to bow down to the PC-pushers and drop the "Fighting Reds" mascot, a group of outspoken Native Americans decided to get even and name their intramural basketball team the "Fighting Whities."
The mascot was depicted as a 1950s-style white man in a suit and tie, carrying a briefcase. The team also adopted the slogan, "Every thang's gonna be all white!"
But the plan backfired.
Instead of "showing them who's boss," the Fighting Whities were saturated with e-mails, phone calls and orders from white people, asking them for the team's t-shirts and merchandise.
"Some people don't realize what we're trying to do," said Solomon Little Owl, who helped organize the team.
People seem to be missing the other side of this entire argument, however.
The debate shouldn't be devoted to what mascot name is "offensive," but rather, the attention should be focused more along the lines of, "What is the state [and in some cases federal] government doing dictating what mascot names schools should adopt?"
Decisions such as these should be left up to the parents, school board members or coaches and players themselves.
It's bad enough state and federal governments force your children and teenager to cut the junk food out of your diet, restrict recess for "teaching to the test," and in turn, tax the fire out of parents and local property owners.
Bad enough government runs education in the first place, but you know it's getting bad when laws ban mascot names.
"Having a team named after people that were once thought to be lower than everyone else should stand as a sort of praise, not a racial slur," said friend and Rockwall High School senior Heather White, using the most common anti-PC mascot defense. "People blow things out of proportion."
White, also the school newspaper editor, said school officials wouldn't even allow an editorial calling for the changing of Rockwall's orange Yellow Jacket to um, yellow.
She said the school district would find the idea "historically insensitive" to the city.
Like the mis-colored Ferris Yellow Jackets, Rockwall's Yellow Jackets are orange and white.
However, these liberal, PC wimps are skipping the whole "white" ethnic mascot group.
"White" mascot names such as Vikings, Gladiators, Trojans, Spartans or Marauders aren't even subject to the change.
So much for being "tolerant" of all races.
If the vocal minority groups are upset and want to complain, then let the local school districts and/or voters decide.
If anything, this just goes to show you how low the PC-pushing liberals will go.
Now if you'll excuse me, I've got to get my Atlanta Braves t-shirt out of the dryer.
Joey Dauben is a free-lance writer from Ovilla. This and other "insensitive," "intolerant," and politically incorrect editorials can be found at http://www.joeydauben.com. 
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