Next for Notre Dame get rid of the mascot, which offends some Irish-ancestry people?

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Yes, after whiting (?) out the inaccurately designated Indians from the Christopher Columbus murals, white out Columbus while you’re at it. As for upsetting Italian-ancestry people, well . . .

via Offensive murals must go, say Native American Notre Dame students and others | National Catholic Reporter

And the name Fighting Irish, by which immigrants said blank-you to the native Americans designated as nativists, you don’t like it? Hey, it’s on you.

Published by Jim Bowman

Jim Bowman covered religion 1968-78 for the Chicago Daily News, since then has written books, articles, etc., mostly on corporate history but also on religion (Company Man: My Jesuit Life, 1950-1968), and more recently on politics (Illinois Blues: How the Ruling Party Talks to Voters -- Lulu.com, Kindle). Longtime Oak Park, Illinois, resident, he lives now on Chicago's North Side, where four of his and Winnie's six children live close by.

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