Dealing with Controversial Mascots

Teams in every sport, at every level of competition, have a mascot. It is the mascot that represents the competitive spirit and team identity, motivating players and fans alike. Does the symbol chosen have any impact on whether a team wins or loses? Unlikely. But the choice of a Native American mascot continues to ignite debate and controversy among athletes, fans and alumni, as well as those people who might otherwise be disinterested in sports. Utilizing an Indian mascot is nothing more than a veiled attempt at hate speech.

First you have to know what the agreement is all about. My research is found from the a article called "The battle over Indian mascot". Some say that when fans chant war crimes during games, it makes Native Americans seem like savages. Now first let me start by saying this I'm not trying to persuade you that teams should change their name, this quote is an agreement that could setup one side of an argument. People don't like the way teams make Indians appears, with the war chants and

Before this topic, I have no experience with the "Indian Mascot". After reading some of articles, I am very impressive by the argument in the article which is "Redskins, Sambos, and Whities - Racism in Sports Mascots." I am not a big fan of any sports, so I have ever not known about the meaning of a sport team's mascot. Now, I am opened my mind. I realize that after every mascot, it has a different meaning. Some are good, but some may hurt people's feeling. Some people said that they think the Indian American and supporters are too sensitive when they care much of a mascot. However, we can not understand someone if we do not stand on their position. The Indian Americans have a indigenous culture with a lot of things we have not known. The stereotypes

Why is a school mascot important to students ? Mascots are found in schools, sports and businesses and may date back a very long time. The word Mascot means “ A person, animal, or object believed to bring good luck, especially one kept as the symbol of an organization to illustrate a sports team. A mascot symbolizes courage, strength, speed and leadership. A Mascot is any person, animal, thought to bring luck, or anything used to represent a group with a common public identity such as a school.

Many professional and collegiate level sports teams bear native American name as there team names. Some native American’s find it offensive that sports team have names such as “redskins” while others take it as a compliment that professional team would choose that as there name.

Former chair of the Los Angeles Native American Commission, Jack Shakley, in his argument, “Indian Mascots-You’re Out!” disputes whether Native American mascots should be allowed to be the face of American sports teams. Shakley’s purpose is to convey the idea that is insensitive to have Native Americans as mascots. Jack Shakley uses a passionate tone to show readers that not only is using a Native American mascot racist, but it is wrong and should be changed to a less offensive mascot. Shakley starts off using pathos to the readers by telling a story from his childhood. In the article, Shakley demonstrates the ability to use strong pathos and logos arguments to support his claims that we should get rid of Native American mascots and steam names.

“Redskin” is a racial slur and the use of the word is one of the worst examples of a sport team having a offensive name. Nevertheless, “nearly four in five Americans” don’t think a name change for the team should be required (ap-gfkpoll.com). This lack of consensus about the fact that sports teams shouldn’t be racially insensitive reveals a larger epidemic. The name of these sports teams become so beloved to some people that they will not be able to change unless the fans realize that the names, logos and racism present in the teams’ impotence to modify these aspects are wrong. Fans need to learn to separate the racism of the monikers from their support of the

Should schools and sports organizations ban the use of controversial mascots and nicknames? I think we definitely should change mascots for schools and organizations. Many Native Americans think so as well. Although some mascots portray strength and quality of America, schools and sports organizations should ban the use of controversial mascots and nicknames because they are offensive, stereotypical, and racist.

Thus, it seems odd to suggest that naming a team after an Indian tribe is a calculated insult. A team or school embraces a mascot that represents the favorable traits and characteristics of its members. Such is the case with the Florida State Seminoles, who are named after a tribe with its origin in that southern state. The Seminole tribe optimistically favored the use of the Indian mascot and even facilitated the design of authentic dress that is proudly worn at sporting and community events. Similar to the Seminoles, the University of Illinois preserved their mascot, Chief Illiniwek, for almost 80 years. Named after the indigenous Illiniwek tribe, the Chief was a customary sideline figure at football and basketball games until 2007 when the NCAA forced the University of Illinois to remove this historic mascot. Unfortunately, the collegiate governing body failed to realize what this symbol meant to the collegiate Illinois community. Illini students were polled regarding the action and a majority disapproved of the decision. Sixty-nine percent of the students voted to keep Chief Illiniwek as their mascot. (Haugh). These students believed that removing Chief Illiniwek as the University of Illinois’ mascot would diminish the passion associated with their university. After the forceful removal of the Native American mascot by the NCAA, the students felt

     Many people do not consider themselves supporting Native American mascots that depict them in a bad manner. But when people walk around with a Atlanta Braves shirt on with a Indian with a tomahawk in his hand, it is degrading to the Indians. It is stereotyping them. School mascots and Sports team’s mascots are named after groups of people for no reason known. Notre Dame was founded by Irish Catholics, but their sports team was named the Fighting Irish. The name Fighting Irish has nothing to do with the Irish Catholics, it depicts them in a wrong way.(Price, 3). Team names can be changed to similar names that do not depict certain groups of people. Like the Redskins can be called the Red Hawks or the

Almost everybody loves going to sporting events and seeing all the excited fans as well as the energized mascots. There has been quite a variety of mascots and logos seen in schools whether it be high schools or colleges and in professional leagues. According to a search done by an ESPN FiveThirtyEight reporter through a database known as MascotDB, out of the 42,624 teams in the database at the time there were 2,129 sports teams that have reference to Native Americans (Munguia). That’s about a five percent of all mascots while Native American only make up roughly two percent of the population of the United States in 2014 (US Census). There has been much debate and controversy around mascots and team names that reference Native American throughout the years and gaining more attention especially with the most public debate regarding National

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Many races are unjustly victimized, but Native American cultures are more misunderstood and degraded than any other race. College and high school mascots sometimes depict images of Native Americans and have names loosely based on Native American descent, but these are often not based on actual Native American history, so instead of honoring Native Americans, they are being ridiculed. According to the article Warriors Survive Attack, by Cathy Murillo (2009) some “members of the Carpentaria community defended Native American mascot icons as honoring Chumash tradition and the spirit of American Indian Warriors in U.S. history and others claimed that the images were racist stereotypes” (Murillo, 2009). If people do not attempt to understand

I chose to write my country box essay over Great Britain’s Olympic toy mascot from 2012. The stuffed animal pictured above is the representation of the mascot from the 2012 Olympics. His name is Pride the Lion which came from a children’s television competition in 2008 to help pick the mascot’s name. Pride has red and blue colored mane with white coat. His patriotic mane represents colors of Great Britain, GB (6). He also has the symbol of GB on his stomach. His favorite quote is “Better never stops.” Pride was chosen as the mascot for the games to help strengthen the image of the British Olympic Association, BOA. He was created by the graphic designer named Lee Froggatt from Orford(8). BOA hoped Pride would be as successful as the other Olympic mascots, Wenlock and Mandeville. Wenlock and Mandeville are one eyed steel droplet mascots. They resembled aliens and helped target the younger age group for the Olympic games (6). Thus, Pride had major competition for revenue in the Olympic games. The revenue from the sales of Pride the lion would

Native American mascots should not be banned because the Native Americans receive assistance for the usage of the mascot . In the article “Insult or Honor” by Alessandra Potenza, the author states that “ the Seminole tribe granted permission to Florida State University to keep using its Seminoles name as well as its popular Chief Osceola mascot… in return the school provides scholarships and reduced tuition to tribe members.”the University did not have to asked the Indians and they kept their mascot. Instead, the University took the initiative to ask the tribe to give them permission. The University is giving back to the tribe members The University respected the tribe and did not want the tribe to believe that they were