When actual Native Americans call out the state’s silly mascot bans, you know progressives have lost their way.
The Native American Guardian Association last week called barring indigenous school mascots “the dumbest law of all time” and vowed to take its case against the state Board of Regents all the way to the US Supreme Court.
NAGA believes identities like “the Massapequa Chiefs” promote respect for Native American culture and values: You don’t name your team for something you hold in contempt.
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And of course the town itself is named for a Native tribe.
Unlike the Regents and their minions at the State Education Department, the vast majority of Americans think “cultural appropriation” is appreciation.
NAGA’s lawyer, Chap Petersen, calls the ban “racially discriminatory” and notes the “Supreme Court has been so solid on this idea that there is no concept of good discrimination.”
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Even the federal judge who nixed NAGA’s bid for a preliminary injunction against the ban saw that it “may have serious constitutional defects,” including abridging “the First Amendment free speech rights of Massapequa School Board members and District employees.”
The Regents are as out of touch on this one as they are in mandating that girls’ sports teams accept boys.
Of course, the Regents these days are wrong about everything — embracing one anti-education policy after another.
Let’s hope a harsh slapdown from the high court on the mascot ban will snap them out of all their perverse ways.