Jeff Jacobs wrote a column in The Hartford Courant this past December arguing that the Darien High School football team didn't deserve to win the state championship because a group of players went to rival New Canaan looking for trouble and beat on some kids there. There of the Darien players were arrested.
The email messages he got from Darien students ("Baboon"; "Clown"; "Empty head"; "Know your place") got his attention.
The Framingham City Council considered and then shot down a proposal by a middle school student to change the names of streets in Framingham that have the word "Indian" in them.
The student told the city council that the names of Indian Head Road and Indian Head Heights, two streets on the north side of Framingham, are offensive because they imply violence against Indians ("Head") and because Christopher Columbus coined the term "Indian" because he thought he had reached the East Indies when he encountered the Americas.
