East High School is known for there fun activities and so much more worrying about whether a school mascot is insensitive or not should not be a problem. The imagery of Native American as our mascot in my eyes is a problem. Some people things more offensively then others so we should respect them. Just as they would want the respect from us and our backgrounds. This can be fixed though where both sides gets the best of both worlds. East High could have a mascot to represent our games and activities but what we could do is change the mascot. We can’t change history but we can make a better future for others and ourselves.
How do we make this plan go in progress ? well first we are going to want to come up with ides for a school mascot that can not be so harmful to others. Also, we want to keep the East High logo with it some idea already have been came up by the scarlet ambassadors. They have came up with ideas like a scarlet knight or a viking we can keep the big E but also make it to where we are not offending nobody. I personally like the knight the most its a fun and exiting mascot idea for East High. It is also a mascot no Native american can get really mad over it. People are always going to disagree on a topic but we as a community need to make it as comfortable to people as possible.
I know that East High would love to make it where like every other Des Moines public schools we have a mascot representing us and our well known school. We are the oldest and largest school in the state how is it were the only one without a mascot. What we should do is start a program informing everyone why our newer mascot the knight or viking would be good use. We would be able to keep our E just change it a little around to fit other people’s perspective we all have opinions and they all need to be respected. Let’s as a community fix this situation and come back together as one.
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