NCAA president Myles Brand: “You must understand, our decision was meant to protect you from hostile, abusive, and offensive stereotypes.  We’re looking out for you.” Seminole Tribe of Florida councilman Max Osceola:  “How?”* NCAA president Myles Brand:  “Why, hello to you, too, sir!”

Yesterday, I asked TalkLeft’s Jeralyn Merritt, a renowned defense attorney and staunch defender of Michael Jackson, what she thought of the revelations that, as the Daily News put it, “Jury deliberations in Michael Jackson’s child-molestation trial were allegedly tainted by shocking misconduct that included smuggling in videotaped Court TV shows and secretly communicating with the pop star’s mother.” Here’s Jeralyn’s reply: No surprise here that these jurors want to write

In the comments to my previous post, Half Canadian reminds me of this 2002 John Miller piece, which references a famous (and now, evidently, ignored) Sports Illustrated poll gauging Native American opinion on the use of Indian nicknames, mascots, characters, and symbols by amateur and professional sports teams: The Peter Harris Research Group polled 352 Native Americans (217 living on reservations and 134 living off) and 743 sports fans; the