I also disagree with Max because there is an old saying that "If your friend jumped off a bridge would you jump to" and the answer is usually no. This is like your example because you provide no evidence but you just say other states are doing it so let's copy them, with no real evidence to do so.

I agree because all of these people helped and we honor them. If a school was to choose a mascot like the "Nazis" for example, then there would be a huge problem because the Nazis were terrible people, but we are not talking about Nazis here we are talking about people who did great things and who we look up to.

The mascots are not racist because if a school was picking a mascot they would not pick a mascot they would get picked on for they will pick a mascot that people will look up to and like.

2% of the U.S population is about 3.2 million people. And just one person can make a huge impact so 3.2 could make a huge difference and would not have trouble stating their opinion especially when the topic is about them.

It is also a tradition to have these mascots, The Cleveland Indians who recently had to change their logo have had that mascot since 1904, and the Washington Redskins have had that mascot since 1932. These are all reasons that teams should not change their mascots.

While some mascots do change it comes at a big price, according to marketplace.org it costs about 15 million dollars to change the average mascot.

Some Indians like the Sioux tribe of North Dakota think that it is honoring them and that is why when North Dakota University was going to change their mascot from the fight Sioux that the tribe sued the university. In an article by the Washington post a girl said that “in college we had the mascot of the Indians and we were honored to have that as our mascot.”

I believe that offensive mascots should not be banned. While some would say the mascots are offensive and use the story in time magazine of a girl that went to a football game and when she saw the opponent's mascot that was a warrior she cried and left the game, I think that was over reacting. A school chooses a mascot because it represents the towns history or it represents something like courage. A team would not pick a mascot they would not be proud of.