{"id":8793,"date":"2020-01-10T15:58:30","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T20:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idavox.com\/?p=8793"},"modified":"2020-01-10T15:58:34","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T20:58:34","slug":"ct-school-board-with-former-local-american-guard-leader-brings-back-racist-high-school-mascot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idavox.com\/index.php\/2020\/01\/10\/ct-school-board-with-former-local-american-guard-leader-brings-back-racist-high-school-mascot\/","title":{"rendered":"CT School Board With ‘Former’ Local American Guard Leader Brings Back Racist High School Mascot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Reverting back to a team name that disparages Native Americans just doesn’t happen, but apparently it does when the Republicans install the onetime local leader of a neo-fascist group!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

KILLINGLY, CT \u2013 A Republican-led school board that last\nNovember see a onetime Vice President of the local American Guard Chapter\nelected into their ranks approved a measure they made a focal issue in the\ncampaign: reversing the decision to change their high school team\u2019s name back\nto the racist \u201cRedmen\u201d moniker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More than a dozen people, including students and Native American representatives, spoke out against returning to the original name that the high school used from 1939 to last year, with no one speaking in favor of it. Killingly Athletic Director Kevin Marcoux voiced concern<\/a> over the decision saying that \u201cEverywhere we go, we\u2019re the laughing stock of the state.\u201d Despite this, the vote was 5-4 in support of the reversal from the name adopted last October, the Red Hawks. The vote went along party lines, a victory for the Republicans, who made it a campaign promise to reverse the name change. The meeting was so contentious that at one point Board Chairman Craig Hanford, called the town\u2019s attorney<\/a> because he said he felt uncomfortable because the local CBS affiliate placed their microphone at his table. The microphones were eventually moved further from him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among those who was elected on that promise to vote for the reversal was Jason Muscara, 20, who was outed on Twitter in September as the Vice President of the Connecticut chapter of the American Guard, the neo-Fascist hate group founded by Brien James<\/a>, who also founded the neo-Nazi Vinlander Social Club. Upon being exposed as a member, he said that he didn\u2019t realize what kind of group it was and had left the group a year later. This is despite the fact that he appeared in the forefront of several rallies in the New England area representing the American Guard as one of its officers, one in Providence alongside Patriot Prayer founder Joey Gibson<\/a> and Proud Boy member Tusitala \u201cTiny\u201d Toese<\/a>, both of whom face criminal charges stemming from violent altercations with antifa in Portland, Oregon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1\/ Meet Jason Muscara, a Killingly, CT Republican Town Committee for school board.

He's also Vice President of the CT American Guard, a hate group that the @ADL<\/a> calls "hardcore white supremacists."

Jason works at @Walgreens<\/a> in Dayville, CT.

Call them at 1-800-925-4733. pic.twitter.com\/mClDVYPJI9<\/a><\/p>— AntiFash Gordon (@AntiFashGordon) September 26, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote>