Principal Suzanne Fortier says the Redmen name is not one the university would choose today, and it is not one that McGill should carry forward.
The name dates back to the 1920s and has been described by some as a tribute to the teams' red uniforms. But in the 1950s, men's and women's teams came to be nicknamed the "Indians" and "Squaws," and some teams later adopted a logo with an Indigenous man wearing a headdress.
Ridiculous
Ridiculous
Change to white men and then sit back and watch the heads explode
This is news ?
Sacrificing your history and identity on the altar of political correctness. What a shame, McGill.
Will Ottawa drop the Red Black's name?
Why don’t they call themselves The Eunuchs? That should satisfy the left wing nut jobs in eastern Canada and universities in general!
From now on they'll be known as soythings since we are not to assume their gender.
The colourless peoplekinds
I'll take 'Things That Should Have Happened Fifty Years Ago' for 800, Alex.
Redperson, right JustinTrudeau?
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