Rutgers students say mascot is too white

[Papageorgio]

How about the Rutgers Riot or the Rutgers Coppers.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

I never cease to be amazed where the PC police have brought us to. It's a caricature you fucking morons !

RUSA passes bill to diversify Scarlet Knight mascot

Since the initial adoption of the Scarlet Knight mascot in 1955 and its several transformations in the succeeding decades, the mascot has stormed fields, courts and countless parades sporting largely Caucasian features. A recent student government bill is looking to diversify the Scarlet Knight by adding a couple of mascot friends, but questions linger in the air about student, staff and alumni responses.

The Rutgers University Student Assembly recently passed a bill intended to support ethnic and gender diversity by adding multiple Scarlet Knights that could be black, Latino, Asian, female or third gender in addition to the existing Caucasian Scarlet Knight, said Emmet Brennan, student assembly parliamentarian.

“What we were thinking — the way the bill’s laid out — it’s not defined that we need an Asian knight, a black knight, a Latino knight,” said Brennan, a School of Environmental and Biological Sciences first-year student. “That we would really leave it up to the different student organizations ... and basically the student body as a whole to determine how many knights they’d like and what these knights would represent.”

Brennan said he founded the idea behind the bill working as a press box server at a football game, where he noticed the mascot had blue eyes and light skin.

“This does not seem right,” Brennan said. “Our mascot does not represent how diverse we are as a school.”

Over this semester, Brennan educated himself on different ethnicities and genders and worked with friend Mohamed Asker, the assembly’s student affairs chair and a member of the Arab Cultural Club, to create a bill that was passed by a majority of the student assembly’s top players at their last meeting.

“The bill did pass the body, and it wasn’t by a slim margin,” Brennan said. “(But) there were some concerns over the mascot possibly being offensive if it wasn’t done properly.”

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The Daily Targum RUSA passes bill to diversify Scarlet Knight mascot

You know I expect this kind of shit with college students.
The problem is it's becoming part of the adult world as well.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

I bet they don't go out of their way to diversify the basketball teams.

 

[Defiant1]

It will be interesting to see what the Third Gender Knight will look like.

 

[ClosedCaption]

LOL The insanity of political correctness aka tyranny continues

Tyranny? by votes?

btw, this is dumb as shit

 

[ClosedCaption]

I bet they don't go out of their way to diversify the basketball teams.

Free market?

 

[ScienceRocks]

This thread is racist and make the democrats look like idiots.

 

[ClosedCaption]

This thread is racist and make the democrats look like idiots.

Since the majority of voters had to be white, it makes whites look like idiots.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

I bet they don't go out of their way to diversify the basketball teams.

Free market?

Right. But that isn't what this is about. This is about neofascist lefties on campus and their more-than-obvious inconsistencies.

 

[ClosedCaption]

I bet they don't go out of their way to diversify the basketball teams.

Free market?

Right. But that isn't what this is about. This is about neofascist lefties on campus and their more-than-obvious inconsistencies.

And you seek to emulate them? To show your disgust?

 

[Mac1958]

Too funny.

One can only laugh at this point.

Hey, they should make him plaid! Only plaid people would be offended! There aren't too many of those, are there?

 

[LuckyDuck01!]

Re-color the mascot.....blue. Doing so, will eliminate any complaints until such time as any smurfs come forward to complain.

 

[timslash]

Coffee is too black, Mascot is too white.
Screw these idiots who're trying to find racism everywhere! I'm sure that old rascal Al Sharpton payed for them, because normal people will never think that somebody or something is more racist than something/somebody else...