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updated on April 28, 2021 | 7:03 PM Wakefield residents voted Tuesday in favor of keeping the town’s school logo, despite the Native American imagery being labeled as racist. The non-binding vote came just weeks after the town’s School Committee voted to take on a new logo the current one depicts a Native American man wearing a headdress but keep the “Warriors” name. Wakefield’s debate is taking place after school districts and other places across the country have voted to replace their Indigenous-themed mascots. Hanover High School eliminated its Native American-themed mascot last summer and opted for a public campaign to find a new one. Merrimack Valley High School in Concord, New Hampshire, removed its Native American mascot from its school logo in late 2019. ....
In divisive vote, Wakefield residents back keeping schoolâs Native American logo By Matt Stout Globe Staff,Updated April 28, 2021, 6:39 p.m. Email to a Friend The Great Divide is an investigative series that explores educational inequality in Boston and statewide. In the latest flashpoint within a far wider debate, Wakefield residents on Tuesday voted to keep the local high schoolâs Native American-themed logo by an 11-point margin, offering a nonbinding but public rebuke of the School Committeeâs decision weeks earlier to eliminate the decades-old âWarriorâ imagery. Voters backed keeping the Native American mascot, 2,911 to 2,337, according to the townâs unofficial results. The âyesâ votes accounted for more than 55 percent of the nearly 5,250 residents who cast a vote for the nonbinding ballot question â a substantial turnout in the 27,000-person town, where closer to ....
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Voters in Wakefield want to keep the town s high school Native American mascot. Residents voted in favor of keeping the mascot by almost 600 votes, out of more than 5,000 cast Tuesday, in a non-binding referendum. Supporters of the Warrior logo say it s part of Wakefield s identity like Elena Corradino, who says getting rid of it would erase Native American history. That Native American image is so important to identify them to keep them in existence, Corradino says. We already took away their land. We re gonna take away their identity now? But, opponent Nicole Calabrese says many Native American groups find these logos offensive and harmful ....
Wakefield Mascot Debate Rages on Ahead of April 27 Referendum – NECN necn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from necn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.