Eric Zorn addresses the Confederate Flag and Mascot being used by a high school in Southern Illinois. I agree with Zorn and Temkin, but the obvious point is that the University of Illinois still has a cartoon caricature of a mascot. It isn’t that the Illini use a Native American name, it is that the mascot acts like a fool in a costume. If we want to get school districts to see the importance of evaluating their mascots, shouldn’t our flagship educational institution do the same?
