These perfessers should pay a visit to the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering next January. Every year the Gathering hosts visitors from a herding culture from elsewhere on the planet. They could also look up vaquero.
Wednesday, March 13, 2019
Ignorant profs …
… Profs say UWyoming 'cowboy' slogan is offensive. UWyoming says get over it. (VIDEO).
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The ignorance of those critics is absurd. There's a proud tradition of black cowboys: there are tons of books about them, there's an entire museum devoted to them in Colorado, and they've even been honored on postage stamps as far back as the 1990s. A great many of the traditions of cowboys, including their clothing and equipment, come to us from medieval Spain by way of Mexico. And the Navajo are pretty well-known for cowboying. Those critics who see only a stereotype are, unsurprisingly, behind the rest of the culture in their understanding of what the word "cowboy" conveys these days.
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