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<blockquote data-quote="FollowTisdale" data-source="post: 1326532" data-attributes="member: 619279"><p>Maybe I'm naive, but I'd rather have a patient and methodical approach/statement from the AD rather than just releasing a statement willy nilly. You only get one chance at your official statement, when we look at back this in a couple years, it won't matter that it came like 36 hours after the university let it slip that they were stopping the song.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>That's really the depressing part about all of this, and all of the "cultural appropriation" stigma. Maybe we weren't recognizing American Indians in the most appropriate ways with the Chief and all the other traditions, but declaring any reference to any other culture as "racist" means that we're bound to forget ancient cultures all together.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FollowTisdale, post: 1326532, member: 619279"] Maybe I'm naive, but I'd rather have a patient and methodical approach/statement from the AD rather than just releasing a statement willy nilly. You only get one chance at your official statement, when we look at back this in a couple years, it won't matter that it came like 36 hours after the university let it slip that they were stopping the song. That's really the depressing part about all of this, and all of the "cultural appropriation" stigma. Maybe we weren't recognizing American Indians in the most appropriate ways with the Chief and all the other traditions, but declaring any reference to any other culture as "racist" means that we're bound to forget ancient cultures all together. [/QUOTE]
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