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Title: "The world needs more cowboys."
Post by: rangerrebew on March 18, 2019, 04:26:16 pm

Professors Protest University Of Wyoming Slogan Praising Cowboys. Then This Happens.
"The world needs more cowboys."
 
 
By Hank Berrien
March 18, 2019

In the summer of 2018, roughly two dozen professors at the University of Wyoming (UW) railed against the school’s new slogan, “The world needs more cowboys,” making claims that the term "cowboy" had racist, sexist, homophobic and genocidal undertones. But instead of backing down, the university’s Board of Trustees stood unwavering, voting unanimously to keep the slogan, and that decision paid off. As The Wall Street Journal reported:

https://www.dailywire.com/news/44773/professors-protest-university-wyoming-slogan-hank-berrien?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=idealmedia&utm_campaign=dailywire.com&utm_term=68980&utm_content=2343719 (https://www.dailywire.com/news/44773/professors-protest-university-wyoming-slogan-hank-berrien?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=idealmedia&utm_campaign=dailywire.com&utm_term=68980&utm_content=2343719)

Title: Re: "The world needs more cowboys."
Post by: thackney on March 18, 2019, 04:29:14 pm

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Title: Re: "The world needs more cowboys."
Post by: rangerrebew on March 18, 2019, 04:30:28 pm

Here is the crux of  the argument: "  Christine Porter ranted, “I am not the only person for whom the word ‘cowboy’ invokes a white, macho, male, able-bodied, heterosexual, U.S.-born person."  In other words, "TOXIC MASCULINITY,"

Title: Re: "The world needs more cowboys."
Post by: catfish1957 on March 18, 2019, 04:35:38 pm

In my lifetime, the nuetering of America has been an absolute shock.  Some days I am glad I'm not young.

Title: Re: "The world needs more cowboys."
Post by: Smokin Joe on March 18, 2019, 05:00:46 pm

Good on the University Board of Trustees!

What crap! A significant number of the real (working) cowboys I have known were Indians, some were Black, descendants of Buffalo Soldiers or others who had moved west. I have known women who could rope and ride better than a lot of men who would even try.

Apparently, the image the professor has in her head has come from Hollywood, not facts.

Title: Re: "The world needs more cowboys."
Post by: thackney on March 18, 2019, 05:41:34 pm

The Oldest African-American Trail Ride In Texas
http://stylemagazine.com/news/2017/feb/24/oldest-african-american-trail-ride-texas/ (http://stylemagazine.com/news/2017/feb/24/oldest-african-american-trail-ride-texas/)

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https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/2017/03/02/190197/from-the-border-to-houston-los-vaqueros-rio-grande-ride-to-the-rodeo/ (https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/2017/03/02/190197/from-the-border-to-houston-los-vaqueros-rio-grande-ride-to-the-rodeo/)

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