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April 28 2021 The PPS School Board OK s an alternative mascot for Ida B. Wells-Barnett High School in Southwest Portland. After an abrupt pivot away from an evergreen tree as a new mascot, Ida B. Wells-Barnett High School will now be known as the Guardians. Guardians will replace the school s current Trojan mascot. The revised mascot was approved unanimously Tuesday, April 27, by the Portland Public Schools Board. Nearly a month earlier, the board paused its consideration of the Evergreens as the Southwest Portland high school s new mascot after a board member noted concern from community members of using a tree at a high school that had recently been renamed to honor a historic Black journalist and NAACP co-founder. The tree could conjure up reminders of lynching, Board Director Michelle DePass noted. ....
(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. ....
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Portland School Delays Vote on Changing Mascot to Tree Over Racism Concerns The adoption of a new mascot for a Portland, Oregon, high school has been delayed because officials believe using a tree could be connected to the history of lynching in the United States. Ida B. Wells-Barnett High School, which was recently renamed from Woodrow Wilson High School, is also in the process of changing its mascot to an Evergreen from a Trojan. “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,” Ellen Whatmore, a teacher and mascot committee member at the school, read from a resolution during a March 30 meeting. ....
One Portland high school is saddled with a dilemma over whether trees are racist. Ida B. Wells-Barnett High School, named after the prominent black activist and journalist who chronicled lynching in the post-Civil War era, was supposed to vote on a new mascot Tuesday of last week, according to the Portland Tribune. The vote was postponed, however, following complaints from a board director that a change from the Trojan mascot to the evergreens was racist. Director Michelle DePass, the local Portland paper reported, said the tree mascot would invoke images of lynching. “I’m wondering if there was any concern with the imagery here, in using a tree … as our mascot?” DePass pressed the committee tasked with finding a new mascot. “I think everyone comes with blind spots and I think that might’ve been a really big blind spot.” ....