Should USC be forced to rename their horse mascot?
For the last 60 years, the USC Trojan guy has ridden a white Arabian horse around the stadium. You’ve seen him on TV. Since the beginning, the horse has been named Traveler.
Saphia Jackson, co-director of the USC Black Student Assembly says that the horse is an example of white supremacist racism, since Robert E. Lee’s horse was named Traveller.
Leave aside that California was admitted as a free state.
Also, leave aside that Lee’s horse’s name was spelled differently (Traveller Lee had 2 L’s)
Should this horse be renamed in response to the complaint?
As an aside, if they do rename it, isn’t a racist horse by any other name still a racist? Will they have to simply get rid of it?
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