Mrs. Hagmann's Ace Debate

One of the only reasons why they would be called the redskins is because of the background. Most people don't think that the term redskin is offensive because they know about the history of Native Americans. And just because someone dressed up as a Native American, and danced around, doesn't mean anything. It doesn't mean that they are making fun of Native Americans. They are dancing around because it's their job, and they enjoy being a part of the redskins. People should be proud to be a redskin, and not offended by a redskin. Also, you shouldn't need to be Native American in order to be proud of the past. You could be African American and like the idea behind the redskin mascot. Overall, it shouldn't be offensive to people, it should encourage people to be who they are.

I believe that school mascots should stay the same for many reasons. One reason is that it is from their background, it shouldn't be offensive because it was from their background. Another reason is that kids even want it to stay the same. Of 452 students at Mascouten school, 90% of the kids wanted the mascots to stay the same. "The Mascouten Indian tribe is what the Berlin Indians were named after and they no longer exist. So I believe it's a good memory that honors them. That's just my belief and that's the belief of, obviously, more than 90% of the people who live here," said Troy Westphal, who is on the school board of Mascouten school. Also, everything is just getting out of hand and violent. In a meeting, talking about changing the mascot or not, it was loud and noisy, but after the meeting, a women found a nail in the tire of her car. She said that she expected this because of how the people were reacting over this topic. Another person voted to keep the Indians the same, and he got his car keyed (when someone scratches a car with a key). It got so bad that the feds had to come and sort this out