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    SJW Long Island University to ditch ‘Blackbirds’ nickname: It’s ‘offensive’ and ‘racist’

    The College Fix Staff




    Long Island University-Brooklyn will be scrapping its 84-year-old mascot/nickname of “Blackbirds” this fall as a result of an athletics program merger with its Post campus.

    But that’s not all: LIU President Kimberly Cline noted she “had heard” the nickname name “is an offensive racist mascot,” according to the New York Post. At the end of March, Cline had told a group of a dozen concerned LIU-Brooklyn alumni that “Blackbirds” was to be replaced “for a few reasons.”

    When asked by the alumni group about putting the mascot name up to a vote, Cline responded that a marketing firm had suggested the school just “wipe the slate clean.”

    From the Post story:

    They [the alumni] didn’t want to diminish Post in the merger.

    The school’s alums have started a Facebook group entitled “LIU Blackbirds Forever.” It has 112 members [370 as of today]. They have also tried to persuade board members and the school’s athletic director, Debbie DeJong, in their cause to no avail.

    “We’re in support of the president’s initiative in terms of combining the programs and doing different things between the universities and merging them in a concept she called ‘One LIU,’ ” former LIU Brooklyn athletic director Jerry Donner said in a phone interview. “But with respect to the Blackbird, it’s iconic. It’s unique. It’s the only mascot in the country like it. Most of the alums I’ve been in contact with are very passionate about the Blackbird. It’s special.

    The LIU Blackbirds Forever Facebook group’s content cannot be accessed unless one joins the group.

    Newsbusters reports that Post columnist Phil Mushnick was none too happy about the Blackbirds’ demise:

    This week, for real, LIU Brooklyn eliminated ‘Blackbirds’ as its 80-year mascot and nickname because the school determined it’s racist. Its magnificent, dignified logo — a blackbird clutching a dangling, interlocking ‘LIU’ — eradicated for a logo and mascot to be named later.

    Left for consideration, if not action, is the removal from radio stations of Paul McCartney’s gentle ode to a broken-winged creature, ‘Blackbird.’

    Among other things, Phil. The United States Air Force may have to alter the moniker of the fastest jet airplane of all time, the SR-71.

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    Just like us with the Redmen up here.

    Our university fully admits the name was given to the sports teams because of the RED jerseys.

    Let me guess....the blackbird in question is actually a bird.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hal-9000 View Post
    Just like us with the Redmen up here.

    Our university fully admits the name was given to the sports teams because of the RED jerseys.

    Let me guess....the blackbird in question is actually a bird.


    Yup

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    So I guess now the Calgary Klansmen will become a thing of the past too

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    No more Chinook Chinks either

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    TWEET! yellow card for going too far!


    Oh no...yellow card





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    Quote Originally Posted by Hal-9000 View Post


    TWEET! yellow card for going too far!


    Oh no...yellow card




    It's not like I brought up the Walla Walla Wops

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    I'm amazed no one talks about the Cleveland Browns.


    But after what you guys told me about the team, maybe no one cares


    What was that description...the disappointment factory?

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    Factory of Sadness



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    No more Chinook Chinks either

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    Quote Originally Posted by Teh One Who Knocks View Post
    I had no idea that was an actual reference

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    So wait, Asian basketball team...


    league superstars are around 5'1'', 5'2''?



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    Stop the Insanity!

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    Stop the Insanity!

    wow flash from the past...one of the first women to shave her head and attach a penis

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