Whitesboro To Change Racist Town Seal After ‘Daily Show’ Visit

In this photo taken July 16, 2015, a welcome sign on the village green, Whitesboro, N.Y., displays the village seal. Whitesboro will let voters decide whether to keep the longtime village seal that has been called of... In this photo taken July 16, 2015, a welcome sign on the village green, Whitesboro, N.Y., displays the village seal. Whitesboro will let voters decide whether to keep the longtime village seal that has been called offensive to Native Americans. (Observer-Dispatch via AP) ROME OUT; MANDATORY CREDIT MORE LESS
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The village of Whitesboro, New York is changing its official logo after a visit from “The Daily Show.”

Correspondent Jessica Williams, who visited Whitesboro in early January, announced the change after her segment about the village’s logo aired Thursday night. Local residents had voted earlier this month to keep the seal, which appeared to show a white man choking a Native American.

Whitesboro Mayor Patrick O’Connor told the Associated Press on Friday that village officials and members of the Oneida Indian Nation planned to discuss a new seal design. The previous design was meant to depict a historic wrestling match between the village’s white founder and an Oneida Indian.

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  1. So all the previous “serious” news coverage had no effect but when the ‘Daily Show’ shows up…

  2. That’s because the ‘serious’ news never challenges people for their idiotic beliefs. The Daily Show shows up and they not only show how the people they are interviewing are idiots, they make them feel like ‘idiots’ too. As well they deserve.

  3. Cameras are one thing, but mockery is another.

  4. Cockroaches always run away when the lights are turned on in a room.

  5. The Iroquois Confederation was “wrestled” out of more land in upstate NY than just the Village of Whitesboro. Illegal chokeholds indeed, involving local, state and federal governments which reneged on treatys with the tribes.

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