Professional sports teams are rapidly getting rid of their Native American mascots. And here in Massachusetts the Barnstable, Acton-Boxborough, Braintree, Quincy, and Walpole schools have all addressed them in recent months.
But some Massachusetts towns are clinging to their racist mascots as desperately as others do their Confederate monuments. Dartmouth is one of about two dozen towns in Massachusetts that still won’t give theirs up.
While these towns and school boards root around their cupboards for the moral courage they seem to have misplaced, the Mass Mascot Coalition notes that the mascot bill (SD.417 / HD.646) has been refiled in both the state Senate and House.
Please note their co-sponsors:
https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/SD417
https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/HD646
The Coalition is asking that people contact only state senators at this time to urge them to co-sponsor the bill. Dartmouth folks should contact Mark Montigny at Mark.Montigny@masenate.gov. Here are several other senators from Bristol County:
John Keenan
Marc Pacheco
Mark Montigny
Michael Brady
Michael Rodrigues
Paul Feeney
Rebecca Rausch *thank you for sponsoring!
Walter Timilty
