Monday, April 12, 2021

The demographics of Wakefield, Massachusetts


About 27 Native Americans in a community of 27,045.


Boston Globe, 4/11/2021
When residents ultimately vote in an April 27 referendum, the ballot question is technically non-binding. It also will come a full month after the town’s school committee already voted to eliminate the school’s Native American logo — a stern-faced caricature of an Indigenous person, its head framed by a headdress. (The panel opted to keep the “Warrior” nickname.)  
But its transformation into a polarizing political contest is laying bare the generational tension between what some in the predominantly white town view as a source of pride and others say is racist and derogatory imagery.

 

From this to this.



 

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