Mascots

Mascots Offensive Mascots to be Banned What is considered offensive' Is it considered offensive to use obscenities around children' According to many people in the United States, it is sport team names and mascots that depict a certain group of people are considered offensive. People around the United States are trying to get professional sport teams to change their names and mascots because they feel it depicts their certain race in bad way. Teams should have to change their mascot and their name if they are named after a certain group of people. Aside from professional sports teams having offensive names, high school and college teams also have offensive names. In Greenly, Colorado at the University of Northern Colorado, their mascot is the Fightin’ Reds. Of course, this name sounds very racists, depicting Native Americans in a very harsh manner. Students on the basketball team renamed their team, The Fightin’ Whites. They were trying to depict the 1950’s style of the average American male. Their slogan for their team is “Every thang’s going to be all white.” By making this new mascot and new slogan, the basketball team was trying to get their city council to talk about the insensitive team mascots mascots, people, team, mascot, certain, named, name, after, offensive, names, changed, change, should, teams, sports, depict, way, trying, school’s, irish, indian, wrong, native, just, fighting, considered, because, along, about, world, tradition, someone, schools, school, said, rid