USC black student group: Mascot horse ‘Traveler’ is ‘white supremacy’ because … Robert E. Lee

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 USC black student group: Mascot horse ‘Traveler’ is ‘white supremacy’ because … Robert E. Lee
Dave Huber - Assistant Editor •August 19, 2017
 

You can always count on progressives to take a situation to the Nth level in terms of utter absurdity.

In the wake of the Charlottesville racial violence, politicians, college officials, and student groups have been falling all over themselves in terms of virtue signaling.

https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/35725/

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Traveler, USC's mascot, comes under scrutiny for having a name similar to Robert E. Lee's horse

Nathan Fenno
Los Angeles Times
August 18, 2017

When Richard Saukko galloped his chalk-white Arabian horse named Traveler around the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum almost 56 years ago, it was supposed to be a one-time stunt.

Instead, the brief performance before USC kicked off its season against Georgia Tech turned into one of college football’s iconic traditions. A succession of white horses named Traveler have followed — Traveler IX debuts this fall — trotting out of the tunnel as “Conquest” plays and the costumed Trojan warrior atop the horse waves a sword. But during a rally earlier this week to show solidarity in the aftermath of the violence in Charlottesville, Va., a USC campus group linked the name to Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, whose favorite horse was Traveller.

At the rally, according to the student newspaper the Daily Trojan, Saphia Jackson, co-director of the USC Black Student Assembly, asked students not to be quiet, and reminded that “white supremacy hits close to home” and referenced the name of the Trojans mascot.

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Another article:

Traveler, USC's mascot, comes under scrutiny for having a name similar to Robert E. Lee's horse

Nathan Fenno
Los Angeles Times
August 18, 2017
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2/3 of Texas rep Shelia Jackson Lee's name has Civil War Generals in it.  I think she must resign immediately.