https://www.westernjournal.com/trees-now-racist-school-worries-evergreen-mascot-may-linked-lynching/?utm_source=jointell&utm_medium=westernjournalism&utm_campaign=jointell&utm_content=2021-04-06. Trees Are Now Racist? School Worries 'Evergreen' Mascot May Be Linked to Lynching A high school in Portland, Oregon, was set to adopt a new mascot, but voting was paused and the entire process is on hold after someone said trees might be racist. That is not hyperbole. The Ida B. Wells-Barnett High School in Portland was known as Woodrow Wilson High School until just a few months ago, KGW-TV reported. The school’s name was changed as part of the left’s push to purge white historical figures from the public square after George Floyd died in Minneapolis last year while in police custody.