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Is Landrieu also in favor of banning LSU's "Fighting Tigers" nickname?

Posted on 7/10/15 at 11:43 am
Posted by MrLSU
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Posted on 7/10/15 at 11:43 am
If Landrieu is in favor of getting rid of Lee Circle, PT Beauregard, and other historical names then this has to be in play for him as well if he is elected Governor.

According to historians Arthur W. Bergeron and Terry L. Jones, the name “Fighting Tigers” is derived from a notorious group of Confederate soldiers from Louisiana whose drunk and rowdy behavior was tolerated only because of their incredible results on the battlefield. They write that the volunteer company nicknamed the Tiger Rifles, sometimes called the “wharf rats from New Orleans” and the “lowest scrapings of the Mississippi,” became part of the Confederate batallion commanded by Major Chatam Roberdeau Wheat. In time, Wheat’s entire battalion was called the Tigers, and the name was later applied to all Louisiana troops of Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia.

That’s the same Confederacy that is today freely associated with slavery, hatred, and racism. Although only a tiny fraction of Southerners owned slaves during the Civil War (a/k/a the War Between the States), the NAACP vehemently protests at any public display of the Confederate Battle Flag, even when it is flown at a memorial site in honor of Confederate Memorial Day
Posted by lsuhunt555
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Posted on 7/10/15 at 11:44 am to
I wish Landrieu was in favor of banning himself.
Posted by upgrayedd
Lifting at Tobin's house
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Posted on 7/10/15 at 11:45 am to
Let me go ask him. BRB......
Posted by bigberg2000
houston, from chalmette
Member since Sep 2005
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Posted on 7/10/15 at 11:45 am to
Just stop. None of this is helping. Let the b.s. die already.
Posted by Phil A Sheo
equinsu ocha
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Posted on 7/10/15 at 11:45 am to
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Landrieu


Can DIAF
Posted by Pectus
Internet
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Posted on 7/10/15 at 11:46 am to
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I wish Landrieu was in favor of banning himself.


Umm...
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Posted by goldenbadger08
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Posted on 7/10/15 at 11:47 am to
He'd be a hypocrite if not..

I'd love to see him spin that though.
Posted by Melvin
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Posted on 7/10/15 at 11:47 am to
Get over it
Posted by TH03
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Posted on 7/10/15 at 11:47 am to
Holy shite tall are worse than the "always offended" crowd. You're literally finding stuff for them to be offended by so you can get mad at them.
Posted by The Mick
Member since Oct 2010
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Posted on 7/10/15 at 11:48 am to
Keep laughing... this country has lost its mind. New Orleans has been changing anything named after a Caucasian for many years now. John Bevins Moisant has disappoint.
Posted by GreatLakesTiger24
Member since May 2012
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Posted on 7/10/15 at 11:50 am to
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by TH03
Holy shite tall are worse than the "always offended" crowd. You're literally finding stuff for them to be offended by so you can get mad at them.


southern Christians are just as bad as blacks and gays
Posted by nastynelly
Baton Rouge
Member since Oct 2008
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Posted on 7/10/15 at 11:50 am to
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Moisant has disappoint
\

Because they changed it directly from Moisant to Louis Armstrong without any time whatsoever in between.
Posted by Cold Cous Cous
Bucktown, La.
Member since Oct 2003
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Posted on 7/10/15 at 11:52 am to
Can Landrieu ban these threads?
Posted by upgrayedd
Lifting at Tobin's house
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139245 posts
Posted on 7/10/15 at 11:53 am to
So what do we replace the mascot with? The Hypo-allergenic Pillow Fighters is my vote.
Posted by The Mick
Member since Oct 2010
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Posted on 7/10/15 at 11:53 am to
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Because they changed it directly from Moisant to Louis Armstrong without any time whatsoever in between.
Why change it at all? What did Moisant do to lose the honor? So now the airport MSY (Moisant Stock Yards) = Louis Armstrong Airport. Everyone loves Louis Armstrong but his history has nothing to do with that airport. Moisant does.
Posted by Topwater Trout
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Member since Oct 2010
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Posted on 7/10/15 at 11:55 am to
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Is Landrieu also in favor of banning LSU's "Fighting Tigers" nickname


who cares? he means nothing to LSU
Posted by MrLSU
Yellowstone, Val d'isere
Member since Jan 2004
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Posted on 7/10/15 at 11:59 am to
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who cares? he means nothing to LSU


You should care because he wants to be Governor and its a great question to ask other Democratic state-wide candidates for office.
Posted by Cold Cous Cous
Bucktown, La.
Member since Oct 2003
15388 posts
Posted on 7/10/15 at 12:19 pm to
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Why change it at all?

For tourists. Tourists who don't have the faintest clue who Moisant was, but do know who Louis Armstrong was and where he was from. It was a marketing move that had everything to do with name recognition, nothing to do with race.
Posted by MrLSU
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Member since Jan 2004
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Posted on 7/10/15 at 12:57 pm to
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For tourists. Tourists who don't have the faintest clue who Moisant was, but do know who Louis Armstrong was and where he was from. It was a marketing move that had everything to do with name recognition, nothing to do with race.


I guess we are doing the same thing with Lee Circle then because every tourist knows who Norman Francis is right?
Posted by The Mick
Member since Oct 2010
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Posted on 7/10/15 at 1:05 pm to
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For tourists. Tourists who don't have the faintest clue who Moisant was, but do know who Louis Armstrong was and where he was from. It was a marketing move that had everything to do with name recognition, nothing to do with race.
So people come to NOLA because the airport is now named Louis Armstrong?
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