David Yeagley responds to the NCAA’s recent ban on Indian mascots. The entire column is a paragraph-by-paragraph demolition of the daft idea. Let this excerpt serve as an example:
The use of Indian names, logos, or mascots is “abusive” and “hostile” toward Indians, say these non-Indian committeemen. Of course, they’re basing their theoretical righteousness on the presumptuous statement created by another non-Indian committee, United States Commission on Civil Rights (2001). Elsie Meeks, the blue-eyed, white-skinned “Indian” from South Dakota served as the first (and last?) such Indian on the USCCR, and was responsible for the much doubted and disputed research allegedly forming the foundation of the artificial statement.
