Listening to the radio this morning I heard a story how Wisconsin is creating a law to encourage the removal of Native American mascot names and image usage at colleges, high schools and middle schools. Many schools throughout the United States have sports' mascots like "The Braves," "The Redmen" and "The Chieftains," matched with very exagerrated caricature (cartoonish) looking images of an American Indian. The names and the images are often very stereotypical and do not depict the culture…
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Now and again, when I scan past Comedy Central on my way to Bravo's ridiculous Housewives or VH1's Sober Houses, I see this ventriloquist Jeff Dunham doing his stand up. He's got multiple puppets. Achmed the Dead Terrorist, Jose the Jalapeno on a stick and another named Peanut which resembles the minstrel cartoons of the 30's, 40's and 50s which portrayed African American's as ape-like buffoons. It's hard to say which one is more offensive. The Dead Terrorist yields laughs as he talks of his…
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