The Coachella Valley High School has been calling itself the Arabs since the 1930s. It’s difficult to find anything redeeming about the snarling, heavy beard, Kaffiay-wearing mascot.

Probably because there is nothing redeeming about it.

The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee agrees. The group sent a letter to Coachella Valley Unified School District Superintendent Darryl Adams earlier this week, asking the school drop the mascot.

“That logo is a very stereotypical logo,” Abed Ayoub, the ADC’s director of legal and policy affairs, told KESQ. “It’s very offensive to many Arabs and Arab Americans.”

Perhaps more outrageous than the mascot itself is that the representatives to the school are not interested in discussing a change.

“It wasn’t to discriminate, it was to say ‘hey, thank you Middle East, Iraq, Algeria,” said Rich Ramirez, president of the Coachella Valley high school alumni association.

“This is the way it is. This what we like to do. And we’re proud of being Arabs.”

(Thanks to Yahoo! Sports for sharing.)