Posted on 04/05/2021 11:53:46 PM PDT by algore
In February, a mascot survey was sent to students and staff. They submitted 420 different nominations, said Ellen Whatmore, a teacher at Ida B. Wells who served on the committee to find a new name and mascot. The massive list of potential mascots was narrowed down to just five, with the evergreen tree being the frontrunner.
But just before the Portland Public Schools Board of Education's vote to approve the new mascot Tuesday, March 30, Director Michelle DePass shared community concerns of an unwanted correlation between Ida B. Wells—the historic Black activist, and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who documented and crusaded against lynching—and a tree which could conjure up reminders of hanging people with ropes from branches.
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What was wrong with the old condom brand mascot anyway?
Who uses Christmas trees for lynchings?
Really 420...??? I swear that is some kind of code... Prop 420 was the legalization of lot in California.
Pot... Not lot... Fing auto correct.
I’ll bet that these teachers never tell the kids about the racism Oregon perpetrated against George W Bush, eventually running him out of Portland and forcing him to go to Washington
https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/bush_george_washington_1790_1863_1790_1863_/
I think in the past history of lynching (going back 1,000 years)....no one has ever used a evergreen or pine tree. You’d have to smoke a lot of weed to reach the level of thinking of evergreens in this way.
That’s it. We must burn Evergreen State College to the ground.
What next? Telephone poles?
What about the London cabbie that tied the rope around his neck of the other end around telephone pole got in the driver’s seat buckled up for safety, put the pedal to the metal. Varoom, twang, pop (witnesses described a popping noise like a champagne cork).
Or is this one of those Warhol’s 15 minutes of fame deals. SMH... Warhol? Really?
The poor children that have to be exposed to this utter madness and nonsense. America has truly entered into the final stages of self-destruction.
So... the logging industry is welcome to return, then?
Yeah, gotta cut down all of those racist trees, right?
I despair for our Republic!
Regards,
...so they took him out and lynched him from the nearest high grass...
When all you can think about is racism then everything becomes racist.
These people are truly mentally ill.
My grandchildren laugh at their teachers’ PC foolishness.
They are actually suffering from the Dunning-Kruger effect:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
Just like the old Chris Rock joke about when you are on MLK Boulevard in a city, get ready to run for your life...
When you get a teacher from the Ida B. Wells Academy, your mind better run for its life!
Interesting. Never heard that story before. Thanks for posting it.
When it sleets or snows, I have to go out in the miserable weather and smack the branches of my tall but feeble Leyland Cypress, with a stick.
It can’t hold itself up with a bit of snow, let alone a body.
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