Gene363 wrote:Indeed, well I hope you made a good showing for white guys.
At the High School I attended we were called the Aztecs. The majority of residents in the little town where the high school was located were Latinos. Lately, people from another town, not Latinos, are giving them shit for using the Aztec name, in spite of it being done respectfully, not in a cartoonish way.
My high school mascot was (are) the Huskies. Rather simple and benign until someone has an issue with a Husky being a work dog enslaved by humans and forced to pull sleds in the arctic or something.
The rival cross town high school has the mascot of Old Abe. Old Abe was a bald eagle and a Civil War Mascot for the 8th Wisconsin Infantry.
https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Article/CS2541 Hopefully Old Abe dodges the cancel culture too.
Both schools had large fiberglass sculptures of each mascot sitting on the roof of school.
https://tinyurl.com/2mjm7way Husky mascot
https://tinyurl.com/yckkm2t3 Old Abe mascot
Every year, seniors would try to desecrate the opposing team's mascot. One year they painted our Husky purple and gold (their school colors) and one year we filed off the toes of Old Abe.
Ahhh... fun times of cross town rivalries. To this day I despise the color purple. It's the color of my cross town rivalry in high school and my NFL rivalry of the Minnesota Vikings. I might need some professional therapy to overcome my disdain for the color purple.
The local Catholic High School were the Ramblers, mascot was the same dude as the Notre Dame Fighting Irish dude but I'm not sure they use it anymore.