A Portland high school delayed a vote to change its mascot to an evergreen tree over concerns about its potential ties to lynching, a report said.
Ida B. Wells-Barnett High School — named after the prominent black activist and reporter who documented lynching — was set to vote on the new mascot last Tuesday until a board director shared community concerns over the tree’s imagery, the Portland Tribune reported.
“I’m wondering if there was any concern with the imagery there, in using a tree … as our mascot?” Portland Public Schools Board of Education Director Michelle DePass asked at the meeting.
What’s next? Laws mandating that lumber may not be used to build homes or any other structures? After all, your house may be promoting lynching if it is built from lumber.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blo...egon_board_of_education_director_worries.html
Maybe gravity is racist
Ida B. Wells-Barnett High School — named after the prominent black activist and reporter who documented lynching — was set to vote on the new mascot last Tuesday until a board director shared community concerns over the tree’s imagery, the Portland Tribune reported.
“I’m wondering if there was any concern with the imagery there, in using a tree … as our mascot?” Portland Public Schools Board of Education Director Michelle DePass asked at the meeting.
What’s next? Laws mandating that lumber may not be used to build homes or any other structures? After all, your house may be promoting lynching if it is built from lumber.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blo...egon_board_of_education_director_worries.html
Maybe gravity is racist