20rtischer's Waterfall
I very much agree, because of one little piece of clothing could really hurt someone or offend them.
I agree because when they try to keep school a safe place you shouldn't have to worry about a mascot being the problem of not feeling safe.
I believe that Cultural mascots are very offensive and that their is no point in having them, this is why I disapprove of Cultural mascots.
I disapprove of cultural mascots not just because it is offensive because it also gets in the way of our normal lives that we want to live freely.
" (CNN) - “Suzan Shown Harjo remembers when she walked into a store with her grandfather in El Reno, Oklahoma. She wanted to get something cool to drink on a summer day. It was the early 1950s and the storekeepers told the 6-year-old she had to leave.
“No black redskins in here,” they said.
At that moment, Harjo felt small, unsafe, afraid. Because she was a dark-skinned Native American - Cheyenne and Hodulgee Muscogee - she was being identified by just her coloring. She wasn't even a whole human being. Not even her grandpa, whom she saw as all-powerful, could do anything to protect her.
Later in her life, that incident made her angry. Angry enough for Harjo to launch a lifelong mission to protect her people.” and that's not it this just makes them madder when you tease them with these mascots
“The most offensive example of a mascot, says Harjo, is the one used by Washington’s football team. She has been fighting for years to get the Redskins to change their name.” This shows that not only can it hurt your feelings but it can hurt your ways of living your normal life. For example talking to people, walking into certain stores, you being looked at differently because of your culture. These are things that should stop. And it's all just about a mascot. Is this really how life is going to be on earth? Have somebody WHOLE LIFE CHANGE, just because of a mascot? It's not the people being offended choice because trust me they tried to change it. It's truly yours.
“When we use imagery that makes an entire community feel excluded and diminished, exactly what tradition are we celebrating” do you really want to be a bully by discluding." This piece of evidence really has a lot of meaning in it. We are using mascots (imagery) and they are offending different cultures. Just think about it for a while, you may be throughing a party and celebrating, while other peoples feelings are being put down and hurt. And yet all you have to do is change your mascot or simply GET RID OF THEM. Are you really the type of person who would want to hurt someones feelings when their is a simple solution? This is why I stand against cultural mascots.
I believe that cultural mascots should be no more because they are very offensive to some people. It's not fair that their culture get mocked by the mascots and it's not fair that they get looked at differently because of them. My source is http://www.google.com/search?sclient=psy-ab&rlz;=1CASMAAenUS622US622&biw;=1280&bih;=665&noj;=1&q;=Cultural+mascots+indians+bad+&oq;=Cultural+mascots+indians+bad+&gs;l=serp.3...97225.102904.1.103818.11.11.
