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Originally posted by djtestudo
WHY NOW? The mascot has been at this school for a while, apparently, so why did this not happen years ago?
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not now?
I think sometimes we forget that only three decades ago the struggle for equal rights in this country was polarizing America. Now that we've come a bit farther over those decades, perhaps the time is now.
And I didn't originally post this as a right or wrong issue about the Confederate flag. Instead, I was impressed by the way the Chicago team acted. They put beliefs ahead of the game. They used a democratic process to decide their course of action. Again, i feel this is a story about what is correct with sports.