Marquette's naming mess

Marquette University in Milwaukee and the naming mess...

Here's my take. About 2 months ago, a group of students organized a fundraising event at Marquette to raise money to help support the troops. The part of the military they were supporting? The Sniper corps. Well guess what? Marquette booted the event and wouldn't let it go on.

My grandfather always used to say, "There's the good reason and then there's the REAL reason.”

The whole Warriors issue could be settled easily. What is a Warrior? Does it have to be an Indian? No! A warrior can be just about anything, from a Zulu, to a Roman, to a US Marine. So, just change the mascot from an Indian. Make it a knight or a Roman warrior and the whole offensive mascot argument goes out the window. My alma mater's mascot is The Warrior. It's a knight, and no-one has any problem with it. Just change it away from Indians and problem solved.

The aversion to Warrior has absolutely nothing to do with Indians. The Indians are the "good" reason. It has to do with political correctness and a general disregard for anything related with the military or things militaristic. Further evidence of this can be seen in that they wouldn't even allow the word "War" to be used, such as "War Eagles."

It's so self righteous and pompous too. The liberal university board doesn't like that militaristic name or the connotations it brings with it, so they create this smoke screen and tell everyone it's because it "offends the Indians," when in actuality, the people that it truly offends is themselves and their political leanings.

So they would rather offend almost 100,000 alumni and faculty than choose a name that would be universally liked. They have their committee approved list of ten names that no-one is excited about. It's like Henry Ford used to say about the Model T, "You can have a car painted any color that you want, so long as it's black."

Most of the voters will write in Warriors too, just out of irritation. The board will disregard those write-ins and not release the tally numbers either. So a small percentage will end up choosing a name few will like, and the board will claim how "fair" they were with their decision while at the same time, claiming they were respecting the Indian community. They get to claim a bogus moral high ground while feeling good about themselves about how they just managed to pull the wool over everyone's eyes.

Of course, if I can figure it out, so can everyone else. Marquette's "diversity" front is a sham and has more to do with people in power being offended by the United States military than any real concern about Indians.

Disgusting really. Here our military men and women put their lives at risk daily to help protect this country and their sacrifices as warriors are like filthy rags to the pompous liberals at Marquette. What really cheeses me is that they think me and others are too stupid to figure out exactly what they're doing.

Thank Heavens I'm not an alum from there. I'd be pretty damn embarrassed if I was.

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