“When you’ve deemed a term a racist slur, then how is a school allowed to use it, and how is a school allowed to use stereotypes of any minority as a representative for their predominately white school?” Fann-Boyle said. When one segment of our population is negatively affected, it has an impact on society as a whole.”Ī spokesperson for the Neshaminy district declined to comment.ĭonna Fann-Boyle, a parent of Cherokee descent who has been fighting Neshaminy to drop the name, called the court’s decision “horrible.” Tameka Hatcher, educational outreach coordinator for the commission, said in a statement that while the commission respects the court’s decision, “we must acknowledge that names such as ‘Redskin’ and imagery of the Native American scalp are painful symbols that are deeply rooted in historical stereotypes and racial trauma for Indigenous Americans. “The Commission cannot both dismiss claims as unsubstantiated or speculative and then rely on those claims to find harm to others.”
“The Commission nonetheless, apparently conflictingly, held that the discrimination of Native American students caused harm to non-Native American students,” Jubelirer said. The problem with the ruling, Judge Renée Cohn Jubelirer wrote, is that the commission didn’t find that the district had discriminated against Native American students. The court’s opinion upended a ruling from the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission that didn’t bar the use of “Redskins” - widely seen now as a racist slur - but determined that the logos and imagery associated with the name could enable students to form harmful stereotypes and lead to discrimination. The Commonwealth Court this week reversed an order that Neshaminy School District stop using logos and imagery that stereotype Native Americans, the latest decision in a long-running battle over the school’s team name.
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