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Post by hcpride on Jun 15, 2022 18:44:03 GMT -5
The George Washington University “Colonials” will soon be no more: the college announced on Wednesday that it’s officially dropping its long-held moniker, which has been criticized for glorifying colonialism, slavery, and racial discrimination.
The news was first reported by GW’s student newspaper, The Hatchet.
Students have floated possible alternative mascots like the “Hippos,” “Riverhorses,” and “Revolutionaries,” dcist.com/story/22/06/15/george-washington-university-changes-colonial-nickname/It’s too easy to point out that ‘George Washington’ himself is quite problematic to the woke crew. Slaveholder. Maybe the school will change/cancel its name. And looking at the name of their student newspaper, it may be time to bury the hatchet too.
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Post by Crucis#1 on Jun 15, 2022 18:51:39 GMT -5
I would suggest the new nickname as the “Monuments”. It would be perfect for the basketball team when they play as a bunch of stiffs 😂
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Jun 15, 2022 19:04:11 GMT -5
The insanity continues. I guess the implication is that we should not honor the men and women who helped us break free from George III’s yoke?
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Post by Sons of Vaval on Jun 15, 2022 19:13:15 GMT -5
When will the school change its name?
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Post by Non Alum Dave on Jun 16, 2022 4:43:27 GMT -5
When will the school change its name? Maybe to The American University Too (Two)
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Post by rf1 on Jun 16, 2022 8:27:33 GMT -5
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Post by Wormtown Railers Fan on Jun 16, 2022 12:21:40 GMT -5
So the Colonials, which the school was named after kicked the colonizers out of this country. But, we have to change the name of the school because of colonialism. Got it.
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Post by gks on Jun 16, 2022 12:26:05 GMT -5
This is a real stretch for the PC crowd.
Shame on GWU for caving.
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Post by mm67 on Jun 16, 2022 13:37:48 GMT -5
Don't see a big celebration about our country being a colony of Gt. Britain. George Washington fought for our freedom from British rule as have others into the 20th century. I assume we would have all joined with the Sons of Liberty.
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Post by rgs318 on Jun 16, 2022 14:13:45 GMT -5
Well, I would have.
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Post by timholycross on Jun 16, 2022 15:13:16 GMT -5
Acton-Boxborough's now the Revolution. Shrewsbury is still the Colonials.
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Post by longsuffering on Jun 16, 2022 15:43:28 GMT -5
UMass did exhibit backbone later when student protesters demanded the Minuteman be cancelled because Minutemen were all white males with guns. The Minuteman survived in Amherst (and in Foxboro after Patriots touchdowns) while the Crusader had his horse shot out from underneath him in Worcester.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2022 20:59:38 GMT -5
I seem to remember George Blaney played for a minor league Bball team called the Colonials. That was a looooong time ago so I might be wrong.
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Post by longsuffering on Jun 16, 2022 21:11:32 GMT -5
I seem to remember George Blaney played for a minor league Bball team called the Colonials. That was a looooong time ago so I might be wrong. Trenton Colonials 1962-64. Team fitness regime included rowing across the Delaware River. At night. On Christmas Eve.🙂 George had been the 33rd pick overall in the fourth round of the 1961 NBA draft for the Knicks. Dr. Fauci must have enjoyed watching him play for three years.
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Post by timholycross on Jun 17, 2022 6:22:03 GMT -5
Three meaning 2 at HC and one in the NBA (because he was in the league a year)?
He was technically a Philadelphia 76er at the end of the 64-65 season; recall him talking about that experience. The NBA at the time had 10 man rosters and they allowed a couple extra guys during the postseason who rarely got in games (in his case, not at all). He said he got to watch "Havlicek Stole The Ball" from a few feet away.
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Post by longsuffering on Jun 19, 2022 3:31:38 GMT -5
I was thinking Dr. F. got to watch George play for HC during the 58-59, 59-60 and 60-61 seasons. Dr. F. would have been in high school during Blaney's freshman year.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Jun 19, 2022 8:45:10 GMT -5
Colonials is a misnomer.
Geez. The army that fought in the War of Independence was the Continental Army. The Navy was the Continental Navy. The Marines were the Continental Marines. George Washington commanded the Continental Army, established by the Continental Congress.
Colonial armies are typically garrison troops in a colony,. The small number of garrison troops in the Continental Army were not referred to as colonials. It would be more accurate to refer to the British regiments who fought in the War of Independence as colonials. Indeed, at the Battle of Quebec, much of the force opposing the attacking Continental Army were Canadian colonial militias, and known as such.
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Post by ndgradbuthcfan on Jun 19, 2022 8:54:27 GMT -5
You are so right. Our guys were fighting in order to no longer be considered "colonials"
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Post by longsuffering on Jun 19, 2022 10:07:26 GMT -5
Members of the Continental Congress and Continental Army we're former "Colonists" who had declared their independence.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Jun 19, 2022 11:52:05 GMT -5
Members of the Continental Congress and Continental Army we're former "Colonists" who had declared their independence. That's not quite right. --------------------------------------------------- Learning never ceases. All the military regiments raised by the various provinces, e.g., Rhode Island province, the New Hampshire province, for the French and Indian War were known as provincial regiments. Most did not include provincial in the the unit name, though Pennsylvania's regiments did. Ships were known as provincial ships. When Washington participated in Braddock's expedition. he did so as commander of the Virginia Regiment, a provincial regiment. No units with 'colonial' in their name can be found in the list of provincial forces that were raised by the individual provinces. See the long list and lineage: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provincial_troops_in_the_French_and_Indian_WarsLoyalist regiments that allied with the British during the Revolutionary War are known as provincial troops, in contrast to Continental troops. Some were variously called militias, volunteers, or loyalists. (There were units of Negro Volunteers, Roman Catholic Volunteers). None were called Colonials. With respect to Loyalist units, perhaps the college ought to investigate whether the Fenwick who organized Fenwick's Dragoons, a Loyalist unit, has any relationship to Benedict Fenwick. After all, the good bishop had named his college after a fraudulent relic, a relic foisted on the Catholics of Boston by a French priest who was virulently anti-Jesuit. How many strikes should Fenwick get before he's called out, like Fr. Mulledy? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_British_units_in_the_American_Revolutionary_War#American_Loyalist_units
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Post by longsuffering on Jun 19, 2022 14:04:19 GMT -5
If there was a close relation we might be known as Dragoons rather than Crusaders and 'Goons rather than 'Saders so I am glad you haven't found a connection...yet.🙂
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Jun 19, 2022 21:03:02 GMT -5
If there was a close relation we might be known as Dragoons rather than Crusaders and 'Goons rather than 'Saders so I am glad you haven't found a connection...yet.🙂 The Maryland Fenwicks of Benedict Fenwick appear to be related to the South Carolina Fenwicks of Fenwick's Loyalist dragoons. Both families have their roots in the Fenwicks of Northumberland. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenwick_baronetsThe executed Fenwick may have been Catholic, accused of trying to kill a Protestant king. For the Fenwicks of South Carolina, see: www.fenwickhall.com/fenwickshortstories.htmlAnywayz, Benedict is spared, not being in a direct line of descent from the commander of Fenwick's Dragoons.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Jun 21, 2022 14:11:20 GMT -5
Amerigo Vespucci owned slaves, and collected them along his travels. I declare that I am offended. I hereby request that we change the name of our country from United States of America to the letters "USA," which like "KFC" would now legally stand for nothing in particular.
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Post by rgs318 on Jun 21, 2022 16:19:11 GMT -5
Anyone familiar with the background and beliefs of this upstate NY character they call "Uncle Sam?" Who knows what he may be concealing in his past?
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Post by longsuffering on Jun 21, 2022 17:36:15 GMT -5
Anyone familiar with the background and beliefs of this upstate NY character they call "Uncle Sam?" Who knows what he may be concealing in his past? roadsideamerica.com/story/29459
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