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University of Illinois Scalps Chief Illiniwek

2007-02-16 at 7:08 pm · Filed under Current Events

The PC stampede rolls on:

The University of Illinois will drop its 81-year-old American Indian mascot, Chief Illiniwek, following the last men’s basketball home game of the season on Wednesday, officials said.

The move makes the school eligible to host postseason NCAA championship events.

So far, this mascot madness seems to be confined to anything related to native Americans, because Notre Dame’s drunken Irish guy picking a fight doesn’t seem to be going away.

An obviously intoxicated leprechaun could be offensive to those of us of Irish ancestry– hey, we don’t all pick fights. Nobody seems to care about that though.

So, Chief Illiniwek has been fired, and offered the dignity and respect that the government and today’s PC culture feels is due Native Americans: He’ll probably have a casino named after one of his relatives where people can lose their life savings, and a pittance of that windfall will buy him a lousy house on a lousy piece of property in some nowhere place. Indian heritage intact, compliments of the government and the NCAA.

Unacceptable mascot: