Editor,
This letter is in response to University of Illinois at Urbana faculty member Stephen Kaufman's letter about NCAA colleges and universities having American-Indian mascots, which are racist or oppressive in some way, shape or form.
I would like to join Kaufman and add to his claim. I would like to ask UNM faculty members and students to establish a policy to preclude our athletic institutions from competing with any school that has an Anglo mascot. I find this offensive, being an Anglo myself. There are far too many schools with these Anglo mascots, and I believe it to be wrong to support these schools until they change their mascots to non-Anglo mascots.
An example is our state's own NMSU Aggies, with "Pistol Pete," and recently the more politically-correct "Lasso Pete." The support of UNM would be much appreciated. Thank you.
Peter Gentry
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