Wisconsin: Republicans stand tall for racism (trigger alert: 'N-word')

[Scuba]

http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/controversial-mascots-mining-bills-on-deck-tuesday-in-state-senate-b99135399z1-230665311.html

Madison — Amid accusations of racism, Republicans in the state Senate passed a measure Tuesday making it much easier for Mukwonago High School and others around the state to keep their Indian team names.

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"You can't call me a nigger and it's OK," Sen. Lena Taylor (D-Milwaukee), who is African-American, told her colleagues on the Senate floor. "We should not be able to call them savages, redskins or even Indians."

But Sen. Mary Lazich (R-New Berlin), the bill's sponsor, said she was trying to make the law fair because currently schools have virtually no way to retain Indian team names if a complaint is filed against them. "They are presumed guilty and there is no way they can prove they're innocent," Lazich said.

The bill would scale back a law — the first of its kind in the nation — that Democrats put in place in 2010 when they controlled all of state government. That law requires the state Department of Public Instruction to hold a hearing and decide whether to allow schools to keep race-based mascots and team names whenever it receives a complaint.

[Jackpine Radical]

1. I wonder how the Waukesha Honkies feel about this…?

[Half-Century Man]

2. I don't know about the honkies, but the Madison Klansmen (AKA the legislature)

seem okay with it.

[Jackpine Radical]

3. Are the Kenosha Kluxers and the Racine Racists on board?

[Jimbo S]

5. This Waukesha Honkie

does not approve.

[Half-Century Man]

4. I suggest

That every questionable team names be put to a vote in each respective county. The ones who get to vote on the names are the ones racially targeted by the names.