Nevada bans 'racially discriminatory mascots' and 'sundown sirens' that were once used to tell

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Native Americans to leave town.

Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak, a Democrat, signed into law on Friday a bill that bans "racially discriminatory mascots" and "sundown sirens," which were once blasted nightly to tell non-white residents to leave town.

The legislation, Assembly Bill 88, prohibits schools and universities from using "any name, logo, mascot, song, or other identifier that is racially discriminatory or contains racially discriminatory language or imagery," according to the bill.

Schools will only be permitted to use "an identifier associated with a federally recognized Indian tribe" if they first obtain permission from the tribe, according to AB88.

The same bill also prohibits the use of "sundown sirens." These sirens were once popular in so-called "sundown towns" in the South and Midwest where non-white residents were ordered to leave town in the evening. These laws often targeted Black residents, though in some places were meant to exclude a town's Native American population, according to a May report from the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/nevada-bans-racially-discriminatory-mascots-195459700.html

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Critical Race Theory

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2. Interesting, I was never aware of these "Sundown Sirens"

Good news! TY.