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USA Today is on the warpath against high schools with so-called racially insensitive nicknames. In separate stories,
USA Today pressured Red Mesa High School in Arizona to drop “Redskins” and Robstown Early College High School in Texas to replace the nickname “Cotton Pickers.”
There’s a big catch to these stories. Red Mesa is a predominantly Navajo school located on the Navajo Reservation. Located near the U.S.-Mexico border, Robstown is 94 percent Hispanic or Latino. Minorities quoted in the two stories are proud of their schools’ respective nicknames and resist politically correct efforts to erase them.
In the story by Analis Bailey, fourth-generation Robstown grad Bianca Prado says of Cotton Pickers, “It’s merely a label that is accurately portraying what your grandmother did.” Prado was furious over an outpouring of social media opposition to the nickname, as she believes the name carries a sense of pride and admiration for migra
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