(Joerg Carstensen/dpa via AP)
Is cancellation all bark and no bite? In Oregon, it seems, bark is what’s biting.
The Portland Tribune reports Ida B. Wells High School has a big decision to make.
The school’s mascot the Trojan was set to get axed.
The sprouting symbol of school spirit set to replace it: the
Evergreen.
Per a resolution, the thinking went thusly:
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.
Additionally:
They provide shelter and sustenance. They have histories that preclude us and will continue in perpetuity after we are no more.
By Premiere Networks
Apr 6, 2021
KEN: Political correctness and what many call wokeness now being woke has brought our culture to its knees, figuratively and literally. Think about it. It s bringing the country to its knees. It s making thinkers idiots. The people that think, now they back off a little bit. Think about all the teachers and the managers and the CEOs and the people that they knew how to think.
They knew how to use their brain, they knew how to make decisions for themselves, and then wokeness enveloped them and political correctness. And then they realize before they said, Well, that doesn t make any sense. Why don t we do this? Now, they go, Uh, you know, what happens if someone s offended?
A Portland high school has postponed changing its mascot to an evergreen tree
A committee member raised concerns about possible connotations to lynching
The Ida B. Wells-Barnett High School is named after a Pulitzer Prize-winning African American journalist who extensively documented lynching in 1900s
A teacher defended the choice as a tree characterized by the life-giving force of their foliage, the strength of their massive trunk, and the depth of their roots
Evergreen tree was voted upon by staff and students from 420 choices
By Premiere Networks
Apr 6, 2021
KEN: Political correctness and what many call wokeness now being woke has brought our culture to its knees, figuratively and literally. Think about it. It s bringing the country to its knees. It s making thinkers idiots. The people that think, now they back off a little bit. Think about all the teachers and the managers and the CEOs and the people that they knew how to think.
They knew how to use their brain, they knew how to make decisions for themselves, and then wokeness enveloped them and political correctness. And then they realize before they said, Well, that doesn t make any sense. Why don t we do this? Now, they go, Uh, you know, what happens if someone s offended?