Through their namesakes, Mt. Baden-Powell and Mt. Burnham share a history of scouting, militarism, toxic masculinity — and white supremacy.
civil rights leader Jesse Jackson upon his July retirement from his Rainbow PUSH Coalition as “one of America’s greatest patriots.”, the concept of a “patriot” has long been up to interpretation. It notes that the word grew in prominence in the English language during the 16th and 17th centuries; someone would call you a good patriot if you agreed with their political or religious views .
Pilgrim’s head of school Patricia Kong says she struggles with how “being a patriot is a bad word, almost, for some people. I think people are losing the meaning of what that word means.” The beauty of language is that it’s an ever-evolving art form that can alter by era or speaker, and by inflection and punctuation. I appreciate that my son’s school saw changing its mascot as a branding exercise that might result in more and different voices being added to his classroom. I don’t think this action is wholly unpatriotic