We are all aware that for centuries, racism has been a chronic issue in the United States, or at least a made up racism story to spread hatred towards each other, and this new bizarre claim will surely snatch the top of the list for the weirdest claim of an act of racism.
Even Civil rights attorney Leo Terrel said on Fox News,
“I’ve been a civil rights attorney for 30 years. I taught U.S. history for seven years. I’ve never had a client complain that a tree is racist. I’ve never had a case that deals with a tree being racist. It devalues true racism in this country.”
Wait, how did a tree become an act of racism?
Well, in Ida B. Wells-Barnett High School, formerly Woodrow Wilson High School a few months ago had been supporting the leftist agenda to rebrand the educational institution in the wake of the national reckoning on race following the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota, last year.
And the school was in a process of selecting a new mascot which someone proposed an evergreen tree, but that idea came up against scrutiny as well due to trees’ history of lynching.
Ellen Whatmore, a teacher from the said school stated the racism claims, “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, they provide shelter and sustenance. They have histories that preclude us and will continue in perpetuity after we are no more.”
Even before the Portland Public Schools Board of Education’s vote to approve the new mascot, Director Michelle DePass said that the idea of the new mascot raised community concerns states that the tree conjures up reminders of hanging people with ropes from branches.
And DePass if arguing that the trees could be linked to the racist history of lynching Black people across America.
But Martin Osborne, an African-American member of the mascot renaming committee disputed that claim saying, “Lynching trees typically are not evergreens, evergreen trees had nothing to do with the horrible history of lynching in the United States.”
Source: American Web Media