1742...Vancouver School Board Wastes Time/$

While the rest of the Lower Mainland was doing the right thing and watching Canada medal and/or celebrate such at the Vancouver Olympics the mamby pamby political correct losers that make up the Vancouver Board of Education voted last night to encourage school boards province-wide place a ban on aboriginal-themed mascots.

No more Redskins, Redmen, Braves, Seminoles.

The high-school grad rate, quoted in this morning's article in the Globe and Mail, among aboriginal students in B. C. sits around fifty per cent.

The above is, of course, a non sequitor.

Native kids don't flunk out coz their sports teams are called the Braves; they flunk out for a myriad of reasons but that ain't one of them.

A question I have is why don't the school boards, in their quest for political correctness and non racialism in sports mascots, also go after the schools that call themselves the Irish or, worse, the Fighting Irish?

Fighting Irish is a negative stereotype if there ever was. The tiny leprechaun in the green suit that is often used as a mascot is a double negative. Further, unlike native nicknames, I would posit that there is not a city with more than 100,000 people in Canada and the United States that doesn't have a school that styles its self in that manner.

Work on that, why doncha?

WFDS