Ban bigotry, not mascots The Roseburg School District dropped its legal challenge to the state ban on Indian mascots because the district was told it would most likely lose this court challenge. As the son of a Chickasaw, I’ll argue that the Roseburg School District needs to hire a better lawyer. The State School Board, comprised mostly of white liberals, is not seeking to ban white school mascots, such as the Scots or the Fighting Irish; it has singled out Indian mascots. In doing so, these white liberal school board members are teaching our children racist stereotyping of Indians, and …