Posted on 04/06/2021 5:40:49 AM PDT by rickmichaels
A high school in Oregon that was considering changing its mascot to that of an evergreen tree is delaying its vote over concerns about the image's potential ties to lynching.
Ida B. Wells-Barnett High School in Portland was renamed earlier this year after a prominent black activist and reporter who documented lynching.
The school had wanted to ditch its old Trojan mascot along with the name change and settled on the evergreen tree after input from students and staff who chose from among 420 possible choices.
A vote on the new mascot was set to take place last Tuesday but was halted after a director on the board shared concerns from the community over the tree's imagery with suggestions that a tree might conjure up reminders of lynching.
'I'm wondering if there was any concern with the imagery there, in using a tree … as our mascot? I think everyone comes with blind spots and I think that might've been a really big blind spot,' said Michelle DePass, Portland Public Schools Board of Education Director.
Another committee member said the issue had been brought up during the brainstorming process but stressed that evergreen trees were not typically associated with the barbaric act.
'We did talk about it, but we were looking at the symbolism more as a tree of life, than a tree of death,' said Martin Osborne, who is black, to the Portland Tribune. 'You could certainly take it either way, depending upon your position.'
Osborne said he believed the idea of using an evergreen as a mascot 'had nothing to do with the horrible history of lynching in the United States. Lynching trees typically are not evergreens.'
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All of rural New England is covered in those “racist” Evergreens.
Hope the Democrats don’t decide to nuke us for our crime of racism.
Everybody knows that we only hang people from hardwoods.
This time tomorrow
Reckon where I’ll be
Down in some lonesome valley
Hangin’ from a white oak tree
What...are we to believe they were used as ornaments on Christmas trees?
Almost everything can be used in someone’s imagination to remind them of something bad. There is probably nothing that anyone could think of to be used as a mascot that wouldn’t raise doubts in some minds. Some just want to stir up problems.
The idiocy has reached epic proportions in Oregon...one hell of a beautiful state vastly filled with people making flat-earthers look more and more sane with each and every passing week.
It won’t be long and the Washington Football team will look like geniuses for not using anything as a mascot.
Is there something in the water in Oregon? What makes these people this way?
Oregon needs to make marijuana 100% illegal again.
Marijuana was once called ‘hemp’.
Hemp ropes were used to lynch black people.
Using marijuana makes you a racist.
Without COTTON, slavery would have died out in America.
Just as firearms commit crimes all by themselves, COTTON physically caused: the vast expansion of slavery in the US, the Mexican War, the Democrat Party, the Civil War, the Klan, Jim Crow Laws, Segregation, and yes, lynchings galore. (Don’t they know this is why the KKK dresses up in sheets?)
Just wait until the Woke discover that the very clothes they wear symbolize slavery and lynching.
HAHAHAHAHAHA...(cough, wheeze)......HAHAHAHAHA
Portland, we have a problem. Can not imagine anyone with a functional brain would want to move there. Political correctness on steroids.
“A high school in Oregon that was considering changing its mascot to that of an evergreen tree is delaying its vote over concerns about the image’s potential ties to lynching.”
NO, a “high school” doesn’t decide anything! PEOPLE do.
“a director on the board shared concerns from the community”
Asking for a friend (of the director’s), “concerns from the community” ???? C’mon man.
WHOEVER utters anything about a pine tree being tied to lynching should immediately be laughed out of the room.
You should say “You can’t be series?! lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol.
This should be the process for every hair-brained idea that the left utters.
I knew Stanford University was nothing but a bunch of white supremacist racists with their evergreen tree logo.
I think their mascot should be a Mushroom since they feed the kids crap all day and keep them in the dark
Sanford University is racist!! The evergreen is their mascot...😀
Are they also going to tear down all light poles, bridge supports, barn trusses for the same reason?
They have a sign when you enter Portland that says “Portland , Home of the Dumb asses”
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