I LOVE THIS STORY, JUST LOVE IT - AT 8:50 A.M. ET:  Sometimes, the best way to fight political correctness is to enlist the people it's designed to protect.  A delightful story from - I have to give them credit - The politically correct New York Times:

GRAND FORKS, N.D. — Sometime soon, the Fighting Sioux of the University of North Dakota were to be no more, another collegiate nickname dropped after being deemed hostile and abusive to American Indians.

Except that some members of the Spirit Lake Tribe, one of two groups of Sioux in the state, say they consider the nickname an honor and worry that abandoning it would send them one step closer to obscurity.

“When you hear them announce the name at the start of a hockey game, it gives you goose bumps,” said Frank Black Cloud, a tribal member. “They are putting us up on a pinnacle.”

Well, well, well, someone finally got it.  Yes, you toiling members of the nation's delicate intellectual elite, when a team names itself after a tribe, it is honoring that tribe. 

Now the question is, does the state of North Dakota get it?  You won't believe this:

And so, in a legal standoff that has turned some preconceptions upside down, North Dakota’s top state lawyers will be in court on Wednesday to oppose members of the Spirit Lake Tribe who have sued to preserve the Fighting Sioux name and logo, an image of an Indian in profile, feathers draping down.

COMMENT:  The absurdity of it all.  I remember, some years ago, when some leftist Asian-Americans, learning the tradecraft of radicalism, protested the "stereotype" that Asian kids are good at math.  Doesn't the PC crowd know a compliment when they see it?

I can see the day when a college will have a football team named "The Multicultural Engagers."  Obama will throw out the first ball...I mean, playing device.

December 9, 2009