Portland school delays ‘Evergreens’
mascot vote over fears it’s
tied to lynching
New York Post,
by
Kenneth Garger
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
4/5/2021 12:35:35 AM
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. “I think everyone comes with blind spots
Reply 1 - Posted by:
fishbone 4/5/2021 12:42:39 AM (No. 744983)
Silly me. I thought it was oaks that were racist; not evergreens. /s
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
JonR 4/5/2021 12:54:07 AM (No. 744985)
So total insanity is now the norm in public schools! Does anyone see the dangers of this kind of mindset that is being imprinted into these young minds by these communist school systems? We are going to lose, if not already gone, a generation of people who are truly dysfunctional and disconnected from reality!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 4/5/2021 12:59:35 AM (No. 744986)
Good thing trees have racist brown bark. Heard a joke last Christmas that Hallmark was going to have Christmas ornaments with Shiela Jackson Lee and Al Sharpton on them so that way everyone in the country can hang a couple of dumb n-words from a tree. Rim shot laugh track applause sign...
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Mushroom 4/5/2021 1:07:05 AM (No. 744988)
From a practical standpoint, that would have to a pretty darn big evergreen, I don't think the size strong enough for lynching would be short enough to reach a decent branch.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
PChristopher 4/5/2021 1:11:10 AM (No. 744989)
So now they're going to start canceling trees? These people are insane.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
snakeoil 4/5/2021 1:14:41 AM (No. 744990)
Use a bush. It's branches won't support neck stretching. The Woke Crowd at Stanford use a tree.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
SALady 4/5/2021 1:15:34 AM (No. 744991)
Do away with mascots!!!! Mascots just perpetuate that one thing is superior to others!!!! No, we want equality in all things. And lets do away with sports, since they perpetuate that someone is somehow superior because of athletic ability. And do away with music, since so much of it was written by white men in their racist superiority!!!
Wow, I was just trying to pretend to think like a brain-dead lie-beral, and it actually hurts to write anything that idiotic and evil!!!! How do lie-berals not just go kill themselves is beyond me. If I woke up tomorrow actually thinking evil things like I wrote in the paragraph above, I would have to go throw myself in front of a bus!!!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
MindMadeUp 4/5/2021 1:19:49 AM (No. 744993)
Having lived in Portland for 40 years, I was puzzled that I had never heard of this H.S. Turns out, the school was Wilson High School until its name was changed fairly recently to pander to the BLM crowd. I wonder how long before Portland, itself has to be renamed. After all it starts with a "P", and that rhymes with tree, and that stands for lynching. Yes, lynching, right here in river city.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
valinva 4/5/2021 2:22:21 AM (No. 745002)
The only case of lynching in the state of Oregon happened in Coos Bay in 1902. A Black man accused of raping a white woman was shot and killed by a mob after which they hung his already dead body from a bridge. No trees either evergreen or deciduous were involved. Oregon is now populated by super woke idiots.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 4/5/2021 4:19:58 AM (No. 745015)
Portland could burn down for all I care. These people have brought this craziness onto their selves. Bottomline, Portland is beyond fixing. Just like NYC, Philadelphia, Washington DC, San Francisco, Chicago, etc.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Rama41 4/5/2021 5:36:16 AM (No. 745028)
The mascot Nazis won't be happy until everyone settles on the one mascot they all agree on: the mask.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
5 handicap 4/5/2021 6:39:56 AM (No. 745050)
HOW STUPID ARE THESE PEOPLE?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 4/5/2021 6:57:35 AM (No. 745059)
All white pines must be cut down and burned - they are clearly racist.
8 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
Terry_tr6 4/5/2021 7:00:31 AM (No. 745060)
so because of one evil racist tree, millions and millions of innocent trees have been branded racist and will be made to apologize and confess their sins else be cut down and sawn into lumber .
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
BarryNo 4/5/2021 7:01:09 AM (No. 745061)
What a winner. He should study his botany before opening his mouth.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Moritz55 4/5/2021 7:13:05 AM (No. 745068)
Great suggestion, #11. Brought to mind a Jim Carey movie called, “The Mask.” And since this is Oregon, the team motto could even be, “Smokin’!”
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
cThree 4/5/2021 7:17:37 AM (No. 745069)
The new mascot should be a dunce cap.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Laotzu 4/5/2021 7:56:03 AM (No. 745100)
For me, symbolism has come to symbolize opportunist totalitarianism.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
smokincol 4/5/2021 8:15:37 AM (No. 745124)
from the sublime to the ridiculous in Portland.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
downnout 4/5/2021 8:20:39 AM (No. 745134)
Good. Grief.😝
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
kono 4/5/2021 8:28:24 AM (No. 745142)
I suppose this means the rope mascot idea is a non-starter, too?
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Miss Daisy 4/5/2021 8:44:15 AM (No. 745161)
Well then, I guess:
National Forests are racist - cut them down! Oh no, that would upset the Greenies.
Houses made of wood are racist - burn them all down!
Campfires are racist - no more roasted marshmallows for the Boy and Girl (or whatever gender is allowed) Scouts!
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
petrichor 4/5/2021 9:06:02 AM (No. 745180)
OMG! I live in the evergreen state. My license plate shouts, "LYNCHING", or something. Will I get a new plate sent to me or an adhesive sticker to cover the Evergreen State line? And we're done.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 4/5/2021 9:07:28 AM (No. 745183)
Correction #10. Their selves should be themselves. Damn spelll check.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
VirtuDawg 4/5/2021 11:26:40 AM (No. 745293)
Our Country passed "insane" years ago, and is now heading into "batsh!t crazy" territory.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
cor-vet 4/5/2021 11:47:30 AM (No. 745310)
The north end of a southbound mule would make a fitting mascot for these weenies!
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Geoman 4/5/2021 12:37:09 PM (No. 745364)
To be safe and politically pure, I nominate a pea for mascot but not necessarily an English pea. Perhaps there is a Djibuti pea that would be more appropriate.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
itsonlyme 4/5/2021 5:58:48 PM (No. 745636)
The city, particularly downtown, is a cesspool with "homeless" tents, human feces on the streets and needles scattered in the parks. The public school system cranks out illiterates, oh wait systemic racism, while it looks at the tree issue. Elections have consequences. It is a progressive city going from cesspool to s??thole.
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