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Well, Apparently, Trees Might Be Racist Now, Too
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| APR 05, 2021 9:42 AM ET
| MATT MARGOLIS
Posted on 04/06/2021 11:54:39 AM PDT by Red Badger
A high school in Portland, Ore., has postponed changing its mascot to the evergreen tree after a committee member raised concerns over the possible racist connotations.
The Ida B. Wells-Barnett High School’s namesake is the Pulitzer Prize-winning African American journalist who extensively reported on and protested against lynching, reports the Portland Tribune. Originally, the evergreen tree was proposed because, according to Ellen Whatmore, a mascot committee member and a teacher at the school, evergreens “are characterized by the life-giving force of their foliage, the strength of their massive trunk, and the depth of their roots—in an individual tree and as a forest of trees.”
“They provide shelter and sustenance. They have histories that preclude us and will continue in perpetuity after we are no more,” Whatmore added.
The evergreen was the frontrunner out of 420 different nominations, but then Michelle DePass, the director of the Portland Public Schools Board of Education, suggested that the tree’s connotations to lynching could be problematic.
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Logging companies. Anti racist before anti racist was woke.
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posted on
04/06/2021 12:12:34 PM PDT
by
xp38
To: Red Badger
Three pine trees was a symbol loyalists in the revolutionary war used. Sounds perfectly suited to LIBERALS.
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posted on
04/06/2021 12:17:07 PM PDT
by
Ford4000
To: Red Badger
Wouldn’t even think of putting a tire swing on a pine tree branch.
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posted on
04/06/2021 12:20:01 PM PDT
by
skr
(May God confound the enemy)
To: Red Badger
“A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” is racist? The wokeists are 🦇💩 crazy
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posted on
04/06/2021 12:20:27 PM PDT
by
Impala64ssa
(Virtue signalling is no virtue)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Yeah. The more I know about ‘racists’ the more I like them.
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posted on
04/06/2021 12:25:35 PM PDT
by
Little Ray
(Corporations don't pay taxes. They collect them.)
To: Red Badger
According to Woke ideology, everything useful or good is racist.
Woke is the opposite of Enlightened.
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posted on
04/06/2021 12:32:57 PM PDT
by
UnwashedPeasant
(Trump is the last legally elected U.S. President.)
To: Red Badger
According to Woke ideology, everything useful or good is racist.
Woke is the opposite of Enlightened.
27
posted on
04/06/2021 12:33:05 PM PDT
by
UnwashedPeasant
(Trump is the last legally elected U.S. President.)
To: Red Badger
When the pendulum swings the other way, and it will, its going to get pretty damned uncomfortable for a lot of people.
And they will have earned every minute of it.
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posted on
04/06/2021 12:34:38 PM PDT
by
TexasM1A
To: Red Badger
Hang on, trees are racist?
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posted on
04/06/2021 12:38:59 PM PDT
by
null and void
(The media decides what news you can see and NOT SEE. But don't you dare call 'em Not-Sees)
To: null and void
Yes, can you wrap your head around that?....................
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posted on
04/06/2021 12:40:05 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
("We've always been at war with Climate Change, Winston."..............................)
To: PROCON
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posted on
04/06/2021 12:57:57 PM PDT
by
Flick Lives
(“Today we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives.”)
better article, and comments posted last night
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3948187/posts
“Lynching is a really difficult topic to talk about and as a sole Black board member, I invite you, beg you, implore you to join me in disrupting the situations, practices, that are racist. I can’t do this by myself,”
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posted on
04/06/2021 12:59:37 PM PDT
by
algore
To: Red Badger
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posted on
04/06/2021 1:05:02 PM PDT
by
gundog
(It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
To: Red Badger
Probably.
But that’s not what she wrote.
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posted on
04/06/2021 1:18:48 PM PDT
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: null and void
Eeek!!!
You said “Hang”!!!
That’s dog-whistle for lynch!!!
Racissss!
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posted on
04/06/2021 1:20:54 PM PDT
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
There was a great comment at the Portland Tribune about this yesterday: Defund the forestsLet's not fiddle around. CLEAR CUT THEM ALL!
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posted on
04/06/2021 1:23:06 PM PDT
by
llevrok
(I'm old enough to remember when the quarantine was to be 2 weeks)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
04/06/2021 1:34:33 PM PDT
by
yuleeyahoo
(The nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deserves one. Hamilton)
To: DuncanWaring
Ahhhhh. SOMEBODY got it!
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posted on
04/06/2021 1:46:07 PM PDT
by
null and void
(The media decides what news you can see and NOT SEE. But don't you dare call 'em Not-Sees)
To: Red Badger
Trees have limbs and some lynchings were done from tree limbs, so therefore they are racist.
How absurd can they get?
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posted on
04/06/2021 2:43:15 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(“Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.” ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,)
To: null and void
There’s one in every crowd.
Sometimes it’s me.
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posted on
04/06/2021 3:14:43 PM PDT
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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