Oh what a tangled web the Democrats weave when they seek to mislead . . . looks like they may have a 14th Amendment fight on their hands for purposefully excluding Native Americans, and only Native Americans, from participation.
A Native American-backed advocacy group fighting for representation in schools, including Massapequa High School, announced last Wednesday that it is prepared to take its case to the Supreme Court following a lower court dismissal last November.
The Native American Guardian’s Association (NAGA) argued that the New York Board of Regents’ 2023 rule banning the use of Native names or imagery by public schools is discriminatory and violates the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of equal treatment under the law.
"Winning this case should lead to the wholesale voiding of ‘Name Ban’ laws, including the cancellation of the ‘Fighting Sioux’ name and symbol in North Dakota," NAGA President Clayton Anderson, who is enrolled in the Hidatsa Tribe, said in a statement.
In the announcement, NAGA said the New York ban is "misleadingly titled" the "mascot ban," arguing that it unfairly targets Native Americans while no similar prohibition exists for other ethnic names such as the "Vikings," "Patriots" and "Yankees," which are commonly used for team names and symbols.
"It had nothing to do with mascots, it was literally trying to eradicate any image of a Native American from a New York school and Massapequa," NAGA attorney Chap Petersen said in a post.
They really are trying to erase Native Americans from everyday life.
My high school had a Native American mascot, and a reservation in Wyoming housed our sister school. We even had Spring Break trips there to learn their history.
Now my high school are European Knights.
The Left is white washing America.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
