Taking Sensitivity Issue Far Too Far
Re “Irvine School Expels Mascot,” May 18:
Woodbridge High School bends over backward to appease American Indians’ objections to their mascot, but it wasn’t enough for activist Eugene Herrod, a board member of the Fountain Valley-based Southern California Indian Center.
I am up to my eyeballs with the petty sensitivity of issues like this, which tend to make mountains out of less than molehills. The next thing you know there will a federal fund to study the number of organizations with Indian mascots, Indian names etc. which “offend” others like Herrod.
Bob Ball
Anaheim
So Eugene Herrod of the Southern California Indian Center wants to see the removal of all American Indian imagery in school sports. He should visit Kayenta, Ariz., located on the Navajo Indian reservation. The mascot of the local high school: “the Indians.” Has Mr. Herrod complained about Kayenta High School, or does this issue, like so many issues of race and ethnicity, rest on a double standard?
Thomas A. Butterworth
Balboa Island
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