Savage Country IV: Oklahoma Senate Bill 765 Anti-Discriminatory Mascot Act 2009

Quotes from the January 30, 2009 press conference in support of OK Senate Bill 765, which seeks to eliminate the use of savages and redskins as sports team mascot names in Oklahoma public schools, and further raise awareness about the misuse of American Indian imagery as sports mascots.
Speakers include the following, in order:
Speaker 1: Steve Cranford, President - Tulsa Interfaith Alliance
Speaker 2: Dr. Victor Orta, II, Pastor - Iglesia El Pueblo de Dio - Tulsa, OK
Speaker 3: Reverend Luis-Carlos Sanchez, President - Coalition of Hispanic Organizations (COHO)
Speaker 4: Maria Reyes, Director of Immigration and Refugee Programs, Tulsa YWCA
Speaker 5: Maggie Jewell, Director of Fund Development, Oklahoma Center for Community Justice (OCCJ)
Speaker 6: Sheryl Siddiqui, Director of Community Relations/American Outreach - Islamic Society of Tulsa
Speaker 7: Cindy Martin, TICAR
Speaker 8: Louis Gray, TICAR

Music courtesy Gary Lucas and Gerald Zbinden, from the CD _Down the Rabbit Hole_, published by www.borderrecords.ch

Category:

Education

Tags:

• 2009
• Activism
• American
• Indian
• Legislative
• Mascots
• Oklahoma
• Racism
• Session
• TICAR

[thwild1]

I wholeheartedly support this bill, and it's about time. Who are these people who are so full of hate?  I will never understand why anyone would oppose or say such terrible things. This hatred is scary and chills me to the bone.

[mybuddyrobin]

Wow beautiful. I love the multi religions that are represented to explain how our feather is like your cross...our regelia is like the priest's robes. There would never be a mascot called "Father Paul" dressed in priests robes and holding out a cross! (Muslim or Jewish kid). I myself would stand up agaist that. It is just an outrage. Institutionalized or not it is indeed wrong!

[PrisonerNumber9653]

@lion3p0 Sadly, no. There's a great deal of racism and bigotry still in Oklahoma, and right wing thugs who think anything showing respect for human beings is, to use their vapid vocabulary, "PC". They still use the hateful term "R**skins", and one of the top football programs in the nation is Tulsa Union, which uses that racial slur, getting a lot of national attention for their fine play and embarrassing Oklahoma with their rancid mascot. Should have disappeared decades ago.

[lion3p0]

was it passed or not?

[lloron74]

...meow...(...I do see why High Schools were being targeted for this type of change, especially in Oklahoma, because the atmosphere in the learning environment was being affected: the age of the students and views as stereotypes. This contrasts the adult professionalism of the NFL teams and viewpoints of equality: Mrs. Sainz and the NY Jets and the immediate response that indicated intolerance of discrimination...)

[lloron74]

...meow...(...no offense intended to Mr. Mike Shanahan - he was always such a "gentelman" to everyone in Denver...)

[lion3p0]

the schools and other teams can either do it voluntarily or me and my people can remove it for them,

[mybuddyrobin]

As you are misrepresenting the honored German service with the rascist leanings you hold and they do not...I have to call you out on your ignorance. I with my native heritage..and many of my friends full and partial blood do not in any way fell honored by your mascots. So you may lie to yourself... but be advised... it is a lie nonetheless.

[movetoaction]

wehrmachtsoldiers - how do you 'end up getting screwed by it'?