“An Arab-American group has protested ‘orientalist stereotyping’ and circulated an online petition demanding the ‘offensive’ mascot be changed.”
Other local schools and mascots: Indio High School Rajahs, “represented by a turban-wearing Indian prince,” Palm Desert High Aztecs and Palm Springs High Indians.
http://www.joannejacobs.com/2013/11/angry-arab-mascot-stirs-controversy/#sthash.LQ6qwIUv.dpuf
Found at http://captaincapitalism.blogspot.com
(Here is a solution. Pay attention. This is complicated.
(‘A football team from Coachella High School defeats a football team from Palm Springs’
(PALM SPRINGS – The football team from Coachella High School defeated the football team from Palm Springs 21-18 Friday night at the Palm Springs’ football team’s stadium.
(No ‘Arabs lance Indians,’ nor ‘Aztecs stampede Rajahs.’ Just “A football team” defeated “A football team.”)
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