Why?  Because of the NCAA’s ban on Indian mascots and nicknames.

The same university that is suing the NCAA will honor the organization with a human rights award on Friday.

A University of North Dakota student group opposed to the Fighting Sioux nickname nominated the NCAA for an award recognizing its efforts to eliminate American Indian logos.

The award recipients will not be announced until Friday’s Martin Luther King Jr. luncheon.

The NCAA has been told it will receive the Rosa Parks Award, said spokesman Bob Williams. Corey Jackson, the NCAA’s director of diversity and inclusion, plans to attend ceremony.

Members of the student group BRIDGES nominated the NCAA for the award as a way to say thank you for its work on the nickname issue, said Frank Sage, the group’s president.

How appalling that Rosa Parks’ singular act of civil disobedience is trivialized by a group of whining, self-important simps with nothing better to do than invoke her name as a reward for a pompous organization micro-managing things as trivial as sporting team logos and nicknames.

The NCAA’s response is laughable.

NCAA representatives feel honored to receive the award from UND, Williams said.

“It shows that issues of diversity and different points of view are alive and well on the campus of UND,” Williams said.

What about diversity including those whose point of view is that the “fighting Sioux” nickname and Indian head logo aren’t hostile or offensive?  I guess that sort of diversity doesn’t matter.

Here is the UND logo:

Someone please explain to me how that is offensive or “racially intolerant” in any way, shape or form.  It is a positive depiction of an Indian warrior.  I can’t imagine that the image causes anyone, even Indians themselves, any more anguish or anger than this image from the Minnesota Vikings…

...does me as a Scandinavian American.

I mean, if the Sioux logo is so outrageous then what about the North Dakota Highway Patrol logo?

What about North Dakota state highway signs?

Are all of these images “offensive” and “racially insensitive,” or are the people making these claims a bunch of culturally-blinkered twits using this trumped-up “controversy” as a way to make themselves appear important and socially aware?