USC Students At Odds Over Whether To Ditch Their Horse Mascot Over His ‘Confederate Ties’

Students at the University of Southern California are joining in the national crusade against Confederate monuments by targeting an icon close to home: the poor horse forced to carry the USC Trojan mascot around the field during football games.

According to the Los Angeles Times, the school’s Black Student Assembly has raised objections to the animal, who, by all accounts, does not hold any political opinions of his own, but who shares his name — Traveler — with the horse Robert E. Lee rode into battle in the Civil War.