Reply #24: Oh, please [View All]

[Eloriel]

If a group had a black mascot who was in the image of MLK, Jr. that could be good thing.

I hope you'll go think about this for a while -- long enough to come to your senses, no offense intended (despite how offensive your idea of this is). The very NOTION of making some group or individual a "mascot" (or "symbol" as described above) is demeaning, ESPECIALLY if for a sports team or similar, or even a dominant culture institutions (such as U of I). It's making them into caricatures, and there's no way out of that no matter how much lipstick you try to put on that pig.