End the madness go with snowflake as the mascot.
Via The College Fix:
Despite the combined high school football teams in Juneau, Alaska coming up with a new mascot just last month, it’s already been sidelined due to its “potential” as a racial slur.
In early February, Thunder Mountain, Yaakoosge Daakahidi, and Juneau-Douglas high schools elected the “Thunder Bear” as their new mascot, which beat out “Capital City Senators” and the “Orcas.”
However, just yesterday a student committee declared “Thunder Bears” would have to be reexamined “after an alternative meaning was discovered online.”
According KTOO, a Juneau-Douglas sophomore said she heard a student using the new name “offensively” in class, and then expressed concern “that allowing it to continue as the district mascot would promote racist stereotypes.”
According to a 2004 entry on UrbanDictionary.com, a site “known for assigning raunchy meanings to otherwise harmless words,” Thunder Bear can be a term for people who drink too much, usually applying to Native Americans.