What happens when your exit velocity laps your launch angle on your way to the nut loaf house? A week, thus far, in three acts:
1) This Monday, the University of Notre Dame will announce what was long anticipated. The school’s nickname will finally change from the ethnically objectionable and socially offensive “Fighting Irish,” to become the “The Slow to Anger Indigenous Irish.”
Next to go, that fists-up Notre Dame leprechaun mascot — a visual slur of little people, the perpetuation of an ethnic myth and a threat to the security of students and faculty.
This week, for real, LIU Brooklyn eliminated “Blackbirds” as its 80-year mascot and nickname because the school determined it’s racist.