The pussification of America continues - Illinois retire Chief Illiniwek

[pr_capone]

I am SICK of this PC crap. Watch out tho... the Braves and Chiefs are next.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/news/story?id=2796923

URBANA, Ill. -- The University of Illinois swept aside the last vestiges of Chief Illiniwek on Tuesday, voting to retire the mascot's name, regalia and image.

The school will continue to call its sports teams the Fighting Illini under the resolution. Chancellor Richard Herman is to decide how and when Chief Illiniwek's name and image will stop being used and licensed to apparel makers and others.

Activists and some American Indians have long complained the chief is demeaning. Backers defend him as an honorable tradition.

The school decided in February to end performances of the chief, leading the NCAA to lift sanctions that had barred Illinois from hosting postseason sports since 2005. The NCAA had deemed Illiniwek -- portrayed since 1926 by buckskin-clad students who danced at home football and basketball games and other sports events -- an offensive use of American Indian imagery.

Trustee David Dorris offered the only dissent Tuesday among the 10 voting members.

"When you look at Chief Illiniwek and you see hate, shamefulness and embarrassment, perhaps you should sit down and consider where those feelings come from," he said before the vote.

Board chairman Lawrence Eppley voted for the resolution but said he agreed with Dorris' assessment that the chief had been a proud tradition for many years.

"Certainly my vote is not intended to dishonor anybody's memories or to deny the fact that it's been a great tradition," Eppley said.

The board Tuesday also took the unusual step of ratifying the February decision. The earlier decision came without a vote from the board, which Eppley has said wasn't needed. Nonetheless, board spokesman Thomas Hardy said voting now could blunt any legal action claiming there should have been a vote.

A state lawmaker asked the attorney general's office whether making the decision without a vote was legal.

Board members also voted down Dorris' resolution that would have directed the university to join a lawsuit filed by the last two students to portray the chief. The suit asks a judge to determine whether the NCAA could sanction Illinois over the mascot.

Board member Robert pterling told Dorris his resolution would only postpone the inevitable.

"The time has come," he said. "[The chief] bothered a whole lot of people for a long time."

Graduate student Genevieve Tenoso, a Lakota Sioux, told the board before the vote that by not doing away with the chief sooner, they helped create an atmosphere in which she sometimes didn't feel safe.

"I haven't had one single day on this campus when something didn't remind of the Indian you prefer me to be rather than the living, breathing native person that I am," she said.

WTF?!?!?!

She did not feel "safe" because of the mascot of the school??? Also, I love the "the Indian you prefer me to be rather than the living, breathing native person that I am" quote there. ****ing priceless.

[Eleazar]

Activists and some American Indians have long complained the chief is demeaning.

I wonder what the ratio is between the two?

[crazycoffey]

The mascot threatened to scalp her, it was from a rival Indian tribe.



-Indians = America's first Gangs

[RealSNR]

Meanwhile the UND Fighting Sioux have the written consent of THREE Sioux tribes in the region and the NCAA refuses to look at the evidence.

Stupid.

[Reerun_KC]

Originally Posted by SNR

Meanwhile the UND Fighting Sioux have the written consent of THREE Sioux tribes in the region and the NCAA refuses to look at the evidence.

Stupid.

It is an actual college where the majority of the students are INDIANS... Go on NCAA, show your ass to America and try and fight that one.

****ing sickening. I am of indian heritage, on the roll in OK, have benefits etc.. And I am offended and outraged at these people removing our history for some liberal ****ing douchebag!

[penguinz]

who cares.

[crazycoffey]

Originally Posted by penguinz

who cares.

I do, cause very soon after this accepted practice of revolt takes away names like the chiefs, PETA will be all over the Tigers and the Jayhawks then where will it end?

[Saulbadguy]

Hi how are ya Hi how are ya Hi how are ya?

[penguinz]

Originally Posted by crazycoffey

I do, cause very soon after this accepted practice of revolt takes away names like the chiefs, PETA will be all over the Tigers and the Jayhawks then where will it end?

You do realize that JayHawks has nothing to do with a bird don't you?

[crazycoffey]

Originally Posted by penguinz

You do realize that JayHawks has nothing to do with a bird don't you?

You do realize I was just being stupid, don't you (look at my track record)

the mascot is a bird, that's where I was coming from anyway.



go watch some fat jiggle.....

[nychief]

pussification?

I would be more concerned with the education in America.

[penguinz]

Originally Posted by nychief

I would be more concerned with the education in America.

[KCWolfman]

Originally Posted by penguinz

You do realize that JayHawks has nothing to do with a bird don't you?

Yup, originally it was associated with thiefs and looters in 1848. It was a combination of two birds, the blue jay (a noisy quarrelsome bird) and a sparrow hawk (a thief of other birds).

Both sides, prior to the Civil War, took the name Jayhawk - it eventually stuck with the Northern Cavalry.

However, since it's roots are deep in lawlessness and the confederacy, one would think their mascot could be rendered impotent by the NCAA as well.

[Skip Towne]

So what are the Fighting Illness going to use for a mascot?

[Braincase]

Replace them with Vikings. We don't mind. Really.