Posts Tagged ‘heritage’
Forum follies
04Mar21
It was a cavalcade of cancel culture, featuring a Who’s Who of Wakefield’s woke elite at their virtue signaling best. Last week’s online “public forum” on the Wakefield Warrior logo was utterly predictable in its participation and tenor. In fact, I did predict it.
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Tags: activists, cancel culture, culture, election, heritage, History, Human Rights Commission, Humor, Indians, Indiginous Peoples, Jason Lewis, logo, Mark Sardella, mascot, Massachusetts, Native Americans, networking, Opinion, political correctness, public forum, public opinion, School Committee, school logo, speakers, sports, technology, tradition, Wakefield, Wakefield Daily Itempolitics, Wakefield Warrior, warrior, WCAT, William Carroll, woke, Youth Council, Zoom
Offensive strategy
11Feb21
If nothing else, the current debate over the Wakefield Warrior logo has been educational. I’m not talking about learning the unique history of the logo. It’s been well-established that a local Native American family and the four-star general for whom we named the Galvin Middle School played key roles in the history of the Warrior […]
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Tags: ancestry, athletes, children, education, Galvin Middle School, game plan, heritage, History, Indian, jocks, John R. Galvin, logo, Mark Sardella, Native American, Opinion, Politics, Richard Bayrd, school, strategy, students, tactics, U.S. Census, Wakefield Daily Item, Wakefield High School, Wakefield MA, warrior, Youth Council
