The Zombie Rights Campaign Blog

Zombies as Mascots? This Could Go Poorly

Using various cultures and peoples as sports mascots has a long and often troubled history. For every ‘Fighting Irish’ that’s generally seen as harmless you have a plethora of, say, Native American mascots that are far more controversial. It’s a touchy subject.

Keeping that in mind, and also bearing in mind the current status of the Zombie Community, this proposal gives me pause:

MACON — Zombies, Armadillos, Cockroaches and the Kudzu are among suggestions for a mascot of the new Middle Georgia State College.
The Telegraph of Macon reports (http://bit.ly/LUhV7N ) that they’re among more than 750 suggestions submitted for consideration for the soon-to-be consolidated institution.

Also included in the suggestions are variations on the current mascots of the two schools that will be merged into the new institution; it’s a real grab-bag.

Would the potential ‘Middle Georgia State College Zombie(s)’ be a cheerful, positive, can-do sort of mascot, or a defamatory and stereotyped one? Obviously it’s impossible to say for certain. Still, given the relative notoriety of Georgia in particular vis a vis Zombie Rights, it’s also hard to be optimistic.

I guess this is a wait and see case for now.


About The Author

The role of 'Administrator' will be played tonight by John Sears, currently serving as President of The Zombie Rights Campaign.

Comments

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *


two − = 0

You may use these HTML tags and attributes: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>