San Antonio College Dumps Ranger Mascot

The community college will begin the process of choosing a new mascot in the fall.

Tuesday's vote was in a long time in the making.

The now former mascot honored the Texas Rangers, who under the guise of patrolling the Mexican-American border, executed what amounted to an ethnic cleansing project during the 19th and 20th centuries — terrorizing Mexican and Black residents and Indigenous peoples.

In recent years, that history has complicated a longstanding, white supremacist narrative of the Rangers as a noble, protect-and-serve police force that kept Texans safe on the frontier.

SAC tried multiple times to remake the Ranger mascot's image, most recently last year with the introduction of a ranger wearing a black mask and red cape named Antonio, but the connection to the Texas Rangers remained.

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