I strongly urge you to instruct Pinson Valley to drop "indian" from their school name and to forbid the use of a race of people as their mascot.
I strongly urge you to instruct Pinson Valley to drop "indian" from their school name and to forbid the use of a race of people as their mascot.
Why this petition matters
I am a person who strongly opposes American Indians as sports mascots. This petition was spurred from the McAdory "Trail of Tears" banner on Nov 15th, 2013. The McAdory team was taunting the opposing team with their offending banner. The opposing team was the Pinson Valley Indians, whose homecoming float carried a child complete with fake leather fringed shirt and pants, wearing a dyed chicken feather headdress while standing next to his teepee. Also on the float was a paper chain made with white, black, red and yellow links, the four colors of the medicine wheel. In Native American spirituality, the Medicine Wheel represents harmony and connections and is considered a major symbol of peaceful interaction among all living beings on Earth. This is another shining example of how Indian mascots are in no way "honoring" any native American Indian, living or deceased, and is just a blatant form of accepted racism that needs to end.
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Decision Makers
- Superintendent Dr. Stephen NowlinJefferson County Board of Education