One more step toward banning the R-Word.
One more step toward banning the R-Word. California's Senate
Education Committee approved a bill in June that would ban state schools
from using the word "Redskins Redskins can refer to: - Redskin (slang), a controversial term referring to Native Americans
- The Washington Redskins, a United States football team.
- Redskin (subculture), a socialist or communist skinhead
- The Redskins, a 1980s English left-wing soul/punk band
" for their mascots Here is a list of several known mascots: College mascots
- See List of U.S. college mascots
Computing mascots
- Belenos, sun-god of Belenix
- BSD Daemon
- Devilette, women dressed like the BSD daemon
- Geeko, the Suse chameleon
. The applause
goes to Assemblywoman Jackie Goldberg Jackie Goldberg (born June 16, 1937) is an American politician and teacher, and a member of the Democratic Party. She is a former member of the California State Assembly. (D-Los Angeles), whose original
bill would have stopped the use of all American Indian American Indian
or Native American or Amerindian or indigenous American
Any member of the various aboriginal peoples of the Western Hemisphere, with the exception of the Eskimos (Inuit) and the Aleuts. mascots. That
bill got watered down to just banning the word, "Redskins."
The bill now makes its way to the Senate floor, where the Democrats
should approve it.
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