Delightful story at Legal Insurrection:
Native American Lawsuit Challenges Colorado Ban On Native American “Mascots” As Discriminatory
The banning of Native American (American Indian) depictions for sports teams gets a lot of press, most famously the Washington Redskins renaming themselves the Washington Football Team.
There’s a side to this issue that I had not thought of, but is argued in a lawsuit just filed in Colorado. That when the government is involved in such name bans, it is discrimination against American Indians because it deprives them of the ability to have things named after them. It is, according to the argument, the worst form of cultural appropriation, more like cultural depravation.
In Colorado in 2021, legislation was passed banning the use of American Indian mascots, broadly defined. Now the law is being challenged in a lawsuit filed on November 2, 2021, on behalf of the Native American Guardians Association (NAGA) and individuals by the Mountain States Legal Foundation, which summarizes the case on its website:
The Complaint is at the site and is a fun read. #8 especially:
8. “[I]n a society in which [racial] lines are becoming more blurred, the attempt to define race-based categories also raises serious questions of its own. Government action that classifies individuals on the basis of race is inherently suspect and carries the danger of perpetuating the very racial divisions the polity seeks to transcend.” Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, 572 U.S. 291, 308 (2014).
That pretty much smacks down a lot of the liberal arguments. All the race warlords and poverty pimps will be out of a hustle. "Rev." Jackson please call your office... I wonder if the woke ninnies that took the Indian woman off the Land-O-Lakes butter package will put her back.
Aunt Jemima. Aunt Jemima to the white courtesy telephone please...
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