USC’s black student group says white horse mascot is racist
The real racists are the idiots who are completely obsessed with race because it allows them to be a “victim” to excuse evil behavior.
Man this is pathetic. A black student group at USC is demanding that their horse mascot’s name be changed because it’s offensive and they simply cannot live their lives fully under such terrible oppression.
hen Richard Saukko galloped his chalk-white Arabian horse named Traveler around the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum almost 56 years ago, it was supposed to be a one-time stunt.
Instead, the brief performance before USC kicked off its season against Georgia Tech turned into one of college football’s iconic traditions. A succession of white horses named Traveler have followed — Traveler IX debuts this fall — trotting out of the tunnel as “Conquest” plays and the costumed Trojan warrior atop the horse waves a sword. But during a rally earlier this week to show solidarity in the aftermath of the violence in Charlottesville, Va., a USC campus group linked the name to Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, whose favorite horse was Traveller.
At the rally, according to the student newspaper the Daily Trojan, Saphia Jackson, co-director of the USC Black Student Assembly, asked students not to be quiet, and reminded that “white supremacy hits close to home” and referenced the name of the Trojans mascot.
The Black Student Assembly did not respond to requests for comment, but questions about the name’s provenance have increased on social media in the midst of the national discussion on race.
Whoever is spreading that crap should be utterly ashamed of themselves. Instead they actually believe they’re making society better through this petty silliness.
Unbelievable.
http://therightscoop.com/uscs-black-student-group-says-horse-mascot-is-raaaaacist/
