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Portland-area high school renaming saga - perhaps the wokest story
Posted on 5/3/21 at 10:46 am
Posted on 5/3/21 at 10:46 am
The Woodrow Wilson High Trojans were basically the actual KKK.
So Portland decided to change both their schools name (cause he was white) and their mascot (cause....they were white)
So they hit the "Random black woman from history name generator (RBWFHNG)" and it produced Ida B. Wells-Barnett, co-founder of the NAACP. Boom. Wells Barnett High.
Now for the mascot... Well, it is the Pacific Northwest. Lets go with the Evergreens.
HOLD ON NOW!
The Board felt that a tree mascot, when paired with a black historical figure, would, and i kid you not, lead to thoughts and images of lynching.
Just incredible.
LINK
So Portland decided to change both their schools name (cause he was white) and their mascot (cause....they were white)
So they hit the "Random black woman from history name generator (RBWFHNG)" and it produced Ida B. Wells-Barnett, co-founder of the NAACP. Boom. Wells Barnett High.
Now for the mascot... Well, it is the Pacific Northwest. Lets go with the Evergreens.
HOLD ON NOW!
The Board felt that a tree mascot, when paired with a black historical figure, would, and i kid you not, lead to thoughts and images of lynching.
Just incredible.
LINK
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Posted on 5/3/21 at 10:48 am to Hester Carries
Geez. It's the Evergreens. Not the Hanging Trees.
Can't do any animals either. Don't want people thinking black people are just animals.
Can't do any animals either. Don't want people thinking black people are just animals.
This post was edited on 5/3/21 at 10:49 am
Posted on 5/3/21 at 10:49 am to Hester Carries
Incoming. The Wells Barnett High fightin' allies of people of color.
Posted on 5/3/21 at 10:51 am to Hester Carries
quote:
The Board felt that a tree mascot, when paired with a black historical figure, would, and i kid you not, lead to thoughts and images of lynching.
Just incredible.
the only logical conclusion of this would be to cut down all trees
Posted on 5/3/21 at 10:52 am to Hester Carries
Pictures from their website
Good to see this 100% white school end racism
Good to see this 100% white school end racism
Posted on 5/3/21 at 10:55 am to The Boat
quote:
Good to see this 100% white school end racism
Thats whats funny.
An all white school propping up a black woman as their image is borderline racist in and of itself.
Why do you need another mascot at all when you lily white pussies have already essentially chosen Ole Ida B. as your mascot.
Posted on 5/3/21 at 10:56 am to The Boat
quote:
Posted on 5/3/21 at 11:01 am to The Boat
White people got no reason
White people got no reason
White people got no reason
To live
They got pale pink hands
And pale blue eyes
And they walk around
Tellin' great big lies
They got little noses
And tiny little teeth
They wear Allen Edmonds shoes
On their nasty little feet
Well, I don't want no white people
Don't want no white people
Don't want no white people
'Round here
White people got no reason
White people got no reason
To live
They got pale pink hands
And pale blue eyes
And they walk around
Tellin' great big lies
They got little noses
And tiny little teeth
They wear Allen Edmonds shoes
On their nasty little feet
Well, I don't want no white people
Don't want no white people
Don't want no white people
'Round here
Posted on 5/3/21 at 11:02 am to Salmon
You forget that seeing wood, will remind people of trees, and thus lynching.
Thus anything made of wood must also be destroyed.
Thus anything made of wood must also be destroyed.
Posted on 5/3/21 at 11:03 am to Lima Whiskey
quote:Wood
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Posted on 5/3/21 at 11:07 am to Salmon
quote:
the only logical conclusion of this would be to cut down all trees
Neil Peart already discussed this 40 years ago, though the axe only fell on taller Oaks to make them as small as the Maples. .
Posted on 5/3/21 at 11:08 am to Hester Carries
Their mascot should be the gender neutral non-binary spirit kins
Posted on 5/3/21 at 11:10 am to The Boat
quote:
Pictures from their website
Posted on 5/3/21 at 11:11 am to BrohemAlem11
How ‘bout the Wells Barnett Conversation Starters?
Posted on 5/3/21 at 11:27 am to Hester Carries
How about the Wells-Bennet LGBTQAIPC%¥SAD
Posted on 5/3/21 at 11:27 am to Hester Carries
The "logic" of not having a tree as the mascot is Pythonesque.
Their finest effort in this vein (imho):
Bedevere stands on a stage in front of a large crowd of wild villagers.
Villager: We have found a witch, may we burn her?
Crowd: BURN!! BUUUURN HER!
Bedevere: But how do you *know* she is a witch?
Villager: She looks like one!
Other Villagers: Yeah! She looks like one!!!
Bedevere: Bring her forward.
(a young woman is pushed through the crowd of villagers to the platform. She
is dressed all in black, has a carrot tied around her face on top of her nose,
and a black paper hat on her head. She talks funny because her nose is
closed by the carrot.)
Witch: I'm not a witch, I'm not a witch!
Bedevere: Er,...but you are dressed as one.
Witch: THEY dressed me up like this.
Villagers: No! nooo! We didn't! We didn't!
Witch: And this isn't my nose, it's a false one!
(Bedevere lifts up the carrot to reveal the woman's real nose, which is in
fact rather small.)
Bedevere: Well?
One Villager: Well, we did do the nose.
Bedevere: The nose?
Villager: And the Hat. But she's a witch!
Villagers: Yeah! Burn her! Burn! Burn her!
B: Did you dress her up like this?
Villagers: NO! No, no, no, no, no, no...
One Villager: yes.
Villagers: yes. yes. yes. A bit. yes. a bit. a bit.
Another Villager: (hopefully) She has got a wart...
B: What makes you think she is a witch?
Villager: Well, She turned me into a newt!!
(pause)
Bedevere: a newt?
(long pause)
Villager: I got better...
Villagers: BURN HER anyway! BURN! BURN! BURN HER!
B: Quiet, quiet, quiet, QUIETA There are ways of *telling* whether she
is a witch!
Villagers: Are there? What? Tell us, then! Tell us!
B: Tell me. What do you do with witches?
V: BUUUURN!!!!! BUUUUUURRRRNN!!!!! You BURN them!!!! BURN!!
B: And what do you burn apart from witches?
Villager: More Witches!
Other Villager: Wood.
B: So. Why do witches burn?
(long silence)
(shuffling of feet by the villagers)
Villager: (tentatively) Because they're made of.....wood?
B: Goooood!
Other Villagers: oh yeah... oh....
B: So. How do we tell whether she is made of wood?
One Villager: Build a bridge out of 'er!
B: Aah. But can you not also make bridges out of stone?
Villagers: oh yeah. oh. umm...
B: Does wood sink in water?
One Villager: No! No, no, it floats!
Other Villager: Throw her into the pond!
Villagers: yaaaaaa!
(when order is restored)
B: What also floats in water?
Villager: Bread!
Another Villager: Apples!
Another Villager: Uh...very small rocks!
Another Villager: Cider!
Another Villager: Uh...great gravy!
Another Villager: Cherries!
Another Villager: Mud!
Another Villager: Churches! Churches!
Another Villager: Lead! Lead!
King Arthur: A Duck!
Villagers: (in amazement) ooooooh!
B: exACTly!
B: (to a villager) So, *logically*...
Villager: (very slowly, with pauses between each word)
If...she...weighs the same as a duck......she's made of wood.
B: and therefore...
(pause)
Villager: A Witch!
All Villagers: A WITCH!
(they do consequently weigh her across from a duck on Bedevere's largest
scale, and she does indeed weigh the same as the duck.)
Witch: (to camera) It's a fair cop.
Their finest effort in this vein (imho):
Bedevere stands on a stage in front of a large crowd of wild villagers.
Villager: We have found a witch, may we burn her?
Crowd: BURN!! BUUUURN HER!
Bedevere: But how do you *know* she is a witch?
Villager: She looks like one!
Other Villagers: Yeah! She looks like one!!!
Bedevere: Bring her forward.
(a young woman is pushed through the crowd of villagers to the platform. She
is dressed all in black, has a carrot tied around her face on top of her nose,
and a black paper hat on her head. She talks funny because her nose is
closed by the carrot.)
Witch: I'm not a witch, I'm not a witch!
Bedevere: Er,...but you are dressed as one.
Witch: THEY dressed me up like this.
Villagers: No! nooo! We didn't! We didn't!
Witch: And this isn't my nose, it's a false one!
(Bedevere lifts up the carrot to reveal the woman's real nose, which is in
fact rather small.)
Bedevere: Well?
One Villager: Well, we did do the nose.
Bedevere: The nose?
Villager: And the Hat. But she's a witch!
Villagers: Yeah! Burn her! Burn! Burn her!
B: Did you dress her up like this?
Villagers: NO! No, no, no, no, no, no...
One Villager: yes.
Villagers: yes. yes. yes. A bit. yes. a bit. a bit.
Another Villager: (hopefully) She has got a wart...
B: What makes you think she is a witch?
Villager: Well, She turned me into a newt!!
(pause)
Bedevere: a newt?
(long pause)
Villager: I got better...
Villagers: BURN HER anyway! BURN! BURN! BURN HER!
B: Quiet, quiet, quiet, QUIETA There are ways of *telling* whether she
is a witch!
Villagers: Are there? What? Tell us, then! Tell us!
B: Tell me. What do you do with witches?
V: BUUUURN!!!!! BUUUUUURRRRNN!!!!! You BURN them!!!! BURN!!
B: And what do you burn apart from witches?
Villager: More Witches!
Other Villager: Wood.
B: So. Why do witches burn?
(long silence)
(shuffling of feet by the villagers)
Villager: (tentatively) Because they're made of.....wood?
B: Goooood!
Other Villagers: oh yeah... oh....
B: So. How do we tell whether she is made of wood?
One Villager: Build a bridge out of 'er!
B: Aah. But can you not also make bridges out of stone?
Villagers: oh yeah. oh. umm...
B: Does wood sink in water?
One Villager: No! No, no, it floats!
Other Villager: Throw her into the pond!
Villagers: yaaaaaa!
(when order is restored)
B: What also floats in water?
Villager: Bread!
Another Villager: Apples!
Another Villager: Uh...very small rocks!
Another Villager: Cider!
Another Villager: Uh...great gravy!
Another Villager: Cherries!
Another Villager: Mud!
Another Villager: Churches! Churches!
Another Villager: Lead! Lead!
King Arthur: A Duck!
Villagers: (in amazement) ooooooh!
B: exACTly!
B: (to a villager) So, *logically*...
Villager: (very slowly, with pauses between each word)
If...she...weighs the same as a duck......she's made of wood.
B: and therefore...
(pause)
Villager: A Witch!
All Villagers: A WITCH!
(they do consequently weigh her across from a duck on Bedevere's largest
scale, and she does indeed weigh the same as the duck.)
Witch: (to camera) It's a fair cop.
Posted on 5/3/21 at 11:31 am to Hester Carries
quote:
The Board felt that a tree mascot, when paired with a black historical figure, would, and i kid you not, lead to thoughts and images of lynching.
Yeah, that’s not racist at all, when simple the idea of a tree makes you think about hanging black people.
Even the grand Wizard looks at that and says “damn y’all are racist!”
Posted on 5/3/21 at 11:32 am to upgrayedd
That crescent moon could bring up ideas of Islam and that might be offensive to minorities.
This post was edited on 5/3/21 at 11:33 am
Posted on 5/3/21 at 11:39 am to Hester Carries
Virtue Signaling 401: Doing It When No One Really Cares
Posted on 5/3/21 at 11:45 am to Hester Carries
quote:
So they hit the "Random black woman from history name generator (RBWFHNG)"
Because it's so true. I had to Google this one. Aaaaand.....
quote:
Political party Republican;
Independent.
Uh oh.
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