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I think this echoes a lot of the sentiment that people getting offended to words does. These mascots have no more emotion or meaning that what you put behind them, if they make you uncomfortable it's because you have racist ideas that you associate with them.
In my high school the mascot wast he Red Devils, it happened to be the name of the concrete company that laid the foundation of the original high school, but every single year some self-righteous religious idiot would come along and try to change it, and every year the proposal would be defeated because the school charter requires that the students approve such a change. Just like the principal said, these mascots are a source of pride for these students, and I think that the govenor was right when he vetoed the bill. The senator has no exposure to these mascots other than what she chooses to expose herself to in an effort to make a statement that contradicts the position of almost everyone that is locally involved.
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