well chief...it was a fun run...but your time was up decades ago...

the University of Illinois (my beloved alma mater) is announcing that it will no longer use suburban white boys to dance around in an over-exaggerated manner in regalia depicting the Oglala Sioux tribe (that coincidentally did not wish the University to continue using) in order to whip other suburban white kids (most of them drunk off their ass and awaiting the next trip to cure to McKinley to cure some VD) into a frenzy at sporting events.

that's right...Chief Illiniwek will no longer be the "symbol" of the University of Illinois.

this decision will be announced just after two pissed off suburban white kids file suit seeking an injunction to prevent the University from doing the moral thing and getting rid of the Chief. they are claiming doing so would limit their freedom of speech (as if they still would not be able to play dress up and act the fool) and their future economic benefit. I must admit, the latter is one hell of an amusing argument...when you strip it down to its essence, these educated white men want to court to declare the University must continue to degrade a people that endured one of largest campaigns of genocide the world has ever seen because without them being able to further mock these nations, they will lose out on some cash (and we all know how hard life will be for suburban white men...hell, they might have to start in middle-management now).

is there anything more cracker than suing to maintain the right to make money off shitting on indigenous peoples?

but seriously...the important thing is this...the old locker room stool I yanked from my time at Illinois will be worth some money. woot.

so Chief...thanks for the memories...don't let the centuries of brutal repression keep you down.