A New York teacher filed a lawsuit against a Long Island school district, claiming that its new mascot, the Spartan, is “a symbol of white supremacy.”
William King Moss III, a local NAACP chapter President and father of two students, said the Brentwood Union Free School District’s choice of the Spartan as its new mascot is offensive to both women and Indigenous people.
Moss, who filed the lawsuit on March 26, said the Spartan is “a symbol of hate” and is “racially problematic” because its origin is of an ethnically white warrior class who conquered and enslaved people such as the “indigenous people called the Helots.”
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“Spartans are of the identifiable and generally perceived protected classes of White Non-Hispanic in race, White in color, Greek in
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