Home to the largest number of American Indians in the country, California is now the first state in the nation to ban the use of “Redskins” as a school team name or mascot.
Gov. Jerry Brown signed the ban into law on Sunday, marking a victory in a more than 50-year national campaign by Native Americans to remove race-based team names from schools and sports groups. Many Native Americans and school climate advocates consider “Redskins” a racial slur.
The successful passage of Assembly Bill 30, known as the California Racial Mascots Act, was the third legislative attempt to eliminate “Redskins” as a school team name and mascot in California. Earlier efforts in 2002 and 2003 were unsuccessful.
[For more of this story, written by Jane Meredith Adams, go to http://edsource.org/2015/calif...-school-mascot/88948]
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