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Democratic education activist likens New College of Florida’s tree mascot to ‘angry, threatening brown individual’

A Florida education activist had heads scratching this week after likening a college’s new mascot – an anthropomorphized tree — to a “angry, threatening brown individual.” In an op-ed piece for the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, Robin Williams, a teacher and president of a Democratc Public Education Caucus of Manastota…
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