I Love Sports I Hate Racist Sports Mascots

Check out this post over at Prairie Sociology by Erin on institutional racism and mascots.

I am a sociologists and I should know better, but I am always unpleasantly surprised by how adamant people are about holding on to their racist mascots. It always feels like it is such a small concession and in this world where sports stadiums change names every few years to match their naming-rights deals and players go wherever the hell they want thanks to free-agency and kids leave college early to make the cash that the NCAA is too ignorant to pay them (all things I have no problem with), it seems even lamer to try to claim that "tradition" dictates choices in the sporting world.