![]() ![]() And while it garnered significantly less attention (and arguably more backlash), the Vancouver Canucks’ new AHL affiliate also made news with its moniker of…uh…the Canucks. There was, of course, Seattle’s expansion NHL team choosing to dub themselves the Kraken. I am attending my 45th high school class reunion this weekend in God’s little acre called Pekin, IL and I will proudly wear my PEKIN CHINKS shirt.The recent past has had some fairly big news when it comes to the names of sports teams in the west. It was the result of pointy headed pablum sucking liberals who run the polictical correctness gestopo in this country. I’m still upset today that the school buckled under and changed the name to Dragons in 1981. It was a gesture of a welcome and good sportmanship. Another girl in my class was voted ‘Chinklette.’ We wore Chinese costumes and greeted cheerleaders from the opposing team in the middle of the basketball floor before each home game. It was a great honor and still is to me today. ![]() I was also voted by the student body to be the mascot ‘Chink’. “I graduated from Pekin Community High School in 1960. The decision to change the team name to the Pekin Dragons is still remembered bitterly by certain residents, as shown by this apparently genuine email sent to a liberal website: Until 1981 it had a high school athletic team called the Chinks and a roller skating arena called the Chink Rink. Pekin has another claim to fame, however. ![]() As the two towns are much closer to each other than the original Pekin and Canton, it seems that some early Illinoisans were a bit shaky on geographical details. The town of Canton, Illinois, was named because of a similar belief: that it too was opposite a famous Chinese city, in this case Canton (i.e., Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong). The town of Pekin, Illinois, just outside the city of Peoria, got its name from its location, which residents believed was on the opposite side of the globe from Pekin (i.e., Peking or Beijing) China. ![]()
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