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U of Florida to officially drop the "Gator Bait" cheer...
From El Presidente' Kent Fuche:
"While I know of no evidence of racism associated with our ?Gator Bait? cheer at UF sporting events, there is horrific historic racist imagery associated with the phrase. Accordingly University Athletics and the Gator Band will discontinue the use of the cheer."
Nice.
http://statements.ufl.edu/statements...st-racism.html
"It is not courage to resist TUSK; It is courage to accept TUSK."
No.
Easy there buddy. Tusk is...well Tusk is Tusk. Tireddawg 12.20.17
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Last edited by ShotgunDawg; 06-18-2020 at 01:28 PM.
CAN'T PUT A SADDLE ON A MUSTANG
Quit Your Bi$&$&?!, He's Not Going to Run the Ball More
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Last edited by ShotgunDawg; 06-18-2020 at 01:28 PM.
CAN'T PUT A SADDLE ON A MUSTANG
Quit Your Bi$&$&?!, He's Not Going to Run the Ball More
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Originally Posted by
TUSK
From El Presidente' Kent Fuche:
"While I know of no evidence of racism associated with our ?Gator Bait? cheer at UF sporting events, there is horrific historic racist imagery associated with the phrase. Accordingly University Athletics and the Gator Band will discontinue the use of the cheer."
Nice.
http://statements.ufl.edu/statements...st-racism.html
Anyone ask Fuche where is "fuche-ing" back-bone went?
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Originally Posted by
Dawg-gone-dawgs
Anyone ask Fuche where is "fuche-ing" back-bone went?
Word out of Gainesville is that he "woke" up, and it was gone.
"It is not courage to resist TUSK; It is courage to accept TUSK."
No.
Easy there buddy. Tusk is...well Tusk is Tusk. Tireddawg 12.20.17
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Can someone not as blinded by white privilege explain to me what "horrific historical racist imagery" is involved with the Gator bait chant?
Edit: Never mind I googled it. Never heard of that before and I'm quite sure everyone knows the chant has nothing to do with that. But I guess we live in a world where a senior adult depression awareness campaign turned meme about marital stress can be considered racist, so I can't be too surprised.
Last edited by RiverCityDawg; 06-18-2020 at 01:20 PM.
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I thank god every day that I don?t wake up looking for something to be offended by. That has got to be a miserable existence when we only have so many years on this wonderful earth given to us by GOD.
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Habitually offended.... Must be addictive.
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Originally Posted by
ShotgunDawg
Holy sheet. That turned my stomach.
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Good on Florida for being proactive.
The last thing you want to do is have to be reactive to the backlash. *looks at mississippi flag*
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Jesus...I never knew that's where that came from. Terrible history to that term. Good on them for getting rid of it now.
That's sickening.
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SOON...
Someone is going to start talking about the Louisiana Tigers being an elite Zouaves unit during the Civil War. They did not fight for the north, so they gotta go.
Francis Marion, the "Gamecock" owned some slaves. They are gonna need to make Banastre Tarleton the good guy in the "Patriot" movie.
Tennessee Volunteers were important to the war of 1812. Found the vulnerability of Spain in Florida, few actual settlements, just "dispensable" Indian refugees from Georgia and Alabama. The Vols formed the nucleus of the eventual Texas filibusters (Davey Crockett) that took Texas from Mexico. But between all that, the Vols fought lots of Indians in the Southeast. Basically, the Volunteers were ethnic cleansers, specifically the Red Stick war was nasty business. Basically the Vols are the bad guys in the movie Avatar. Further on, the Spanish and later Mexican government gave them land grants in East Texas to "control" the Comanches....Seems weak to simply drop a school nickname but not give Texas back to Mexico. I mean, if you are so offended, right? How can you be a committed SJW and just change school nicknames but keep the actual spoils?
Meanwhile in Starkville, we are adorable Bulldogs.
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Originally Posted by
Dawg-gone-dawgs
Anyone ask Fuche where is "fuche-ing" back-bone went?
No need. He did the right thing. Wish everyone has the set of balls this dude does.
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This is LSU’s chance to get ahead of things and officially change their mascot to the Corndog
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Originally Posted by
Rick Danko
I thank god every day that I don?t wake up looking for something to be offended by. That has got to be a miserable existence when we only have so many years on this wonderful earth given to us by GOD.
Amen to that brother. If we dig deep enough, I'm sure most anything can be traced back to a point in history when things were bad. I'm not saying all things need to remain the same(because they don't) but some people are just plain ridiculous with this stuff. I'm glad I don't live my life that way. Also, we may not have as many years as we think if God keeps seeing the way the world is going and how we are treating others.
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Originally Posted by
Lord McBuckethead
No need. He did the right thing. Wish everyone has the set of ovaries this dude does.
FTFY
"It is not courage to resist TUSK; It is courage to accept TUSK."
No.
Easy there buddy. Tusk is...well Tusk is Tusk. Tireddawg 12.20.17
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Im very much in favor of a lot of things changing right now actually (looking at you Aunt Jemima) but... this.. it had no direct connection with those images. I just can't make the connection... that's too far for me
Do we ban cotton because it was historically harvested by slaves, same with peanuts?
This is the one where i say.. how far does it go i guess. unless someone can prove to me a connection.
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