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#1 | California school retires divisive Arab mascot datum

Mon Sep 01, 2014 9:28 am

California school retires divisive Arab mascot

Mural shows school mascot at Coachella Valley High School in Thermal, California, Nov. 14, 2013.
AP 9 hr ago | By Associated Press

THERMAL, Calif. (AP) � A Southern California high school has retired a controversial Arab mascot.

The hook-nosed, snarling mascot who wears a head scarf did not appear at Coachella Valley High School's season opening football game Friday. A belly-dancing genie that often appears with the mascot was also retired.

The Desert Sun reports (http://desert.sn/1B2qPVZ ) the change among the steps the Coachella Valley Unified School District is taking to give the mascot a makeover.

The Arab mascot has existed since the 1920s to recognize the desert region's reliance on date farming, a traditionally Middle Eastern crop. It came under fire last November when the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee complained that the mascot was stereotypical.

Read more: http://news.msn.com/us/california-school...ive-arab-mascot

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#2 | RE: California school retires divisive Arab mascot datum

Mon Sep 01, 2014 9:31 am

well I agree with this move.

times have certainly changed but this as a "mascot" is unimaginable

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#3 | RE: California school retires divisive Arab mascot datum

Mon Sep 01, 2014 9:39 am

Quote: ThirstyMan wrote in post #2
well I agree with this move.

times have certainly changed but this as a "mascot" is unimaginable

I wonder if it's pronounced Arabs or Ay-rabs?

The duty of a true patriot is to protect his country from its government. ~ Thomas Paine

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#4 | RE: California school retires divisive Arab mascot datum

Mon Sep 01, 2014 10:17 am

They should go with 'The Marauders'. It means the same thing.

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#5 | RE: California school retires divisive Arab mascot datum

Mon Sep 01, 2014 10:30 am

The duty of a true patriot is to protect his country from its government. ~ Thomas Paine

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#6 | RE: California school retires divisive Arab mascot datum

Mon Sep 01, 2014 10:46 am

Well, my high school - Alhambra High in Southern California - still uses the image. We're the Moors, which is very appropriate for Alhambra.

However, I don't think they've used their mascot, Joe Moor, for quite a few years. He was always a well-built gymnast wearing Arab garb who would do cartwheels and backflips on the field at football and basketball games. The student body loved him.

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#7 | RE: California school retires divisive Arab mascot datum

Mon Sep 01, 2014 10:57 am

Hi TK,
Certainly the community's imagination can improve on this Joe Moor image and mascot.
The morphing of the Islamic image from the olden days of Ali Babba and his 40 thieves - "Open Sesame!" and all that, to today's horror of 911 and the many, many terror events we've witnessed, makes it unthinkable that we're wishing a team success uder these terms, at least in my mind.
TM

Quote: truthkeeper wrote in post #6
Well, my high school - Alhambra High in Southern California - still uses the image. We're the Moors, which is very appropriate for Alhambra.

However, I don't think they've used their mascot, Joe Moor, for quite a few years. He was always a well-built gymnast wearing Arab garb who would do cartwheels and backflips on the field at football and basketball games. The student body loved him.