{"id":12686,"date":"2020-06-22T18:02:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T15:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/quartz-hill-high-school-drops-rebel-mascot\/"},"modified":"2020-06-22T18:02:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T15:02:00","slug":"quartz-hill-high-school-drops-rebel-mascot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/quartz-hill-high-school-drops-rebel-mascot\/","title":{"rendered":"#Quartz Hill High School drops \u2018Rebel\u2019 mascot"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Quartz Hill High School drops \u2018Rebel\u2019 mascot<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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June 22, 2020 |<\/span> 11:02am |<\/span> Updated June 22, 2020 | 11:02am<\/span><\/p>\n

\n A California high school is dropping its controversial \u201cRebel\u201d nickname and mascot after 56 years of backing the symbolic Confederate soldier known as \u201cJohnny Reb,\u201d district officials said.<\/p>\n

The change is to create an atmosphere of \u201cacceptance, respect and love\u201d for all students at Quartz Hill High School in Quartz Hill, the Antelope Valley Press reported.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe more recent events that have transpired locally and across the world have resulted in a sincere reflection on our core values as an institution and the way in which we represent those values to our community,\u201d Antelope Valley Union High School District officials announced Thursday. \u201cIt is abundantly clear that we can no longer continue to use the rebel mascot to represent our school community.\u201d<\/p>\n

The decision is effective immedia<\/a>tely. Students and staff will now collaborate to pick a new mascot. Its current iteration \u2013 a blue-and-gold revolutionary soldier \u2014 had been in use since 2017, the news<\/a>paper reported.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey did update it slightly to look more of a rancher mascot,\u201d Desiree Fernandez, who launched a Change.org petition calling for its ouster, told the newspaper while alleging she saw a lot of racial bias at the school.<\/p>\n

Fernandez said she met with Quartz Hill principal Zach Mercier for three hours on Wednesday prior to the announcement.<\/p>\n

\u201cI did get the idea that he had spent some time in wanting to move forward as far as changing the reputation of the school and getting rid of the mascot,\u201d Fernandez said.<\/p>\n

The decision came just over a week after the body of a 24-year-old black man, Robert Fuller, was found hanging from a tree outside Palmdale City Hall, about 12 miles away, the Los Angeles Times reported. Fuller\u2019s cause of death remains under investigation, according to the newspaper.<\/p>\n

The contentious logo then became a topic of debate at an Antelope Valley Union High School district board meeting one day after Fuller\u2019s death.<\/p>\n

The mascot, according to a school program celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2014, was initially chosen by students, parents and community members who fought to secure an injunction to have the school built, the Antelope Valley Press reports.<\/p>\n

The moniker was selected due to that struggle, but alumni have said the school\u2019s mascot also app<\/a>eared at football game<\/a>s on horseback in a blue uniform with gold strip<\/a>es while holding a Confederate flag, according to Antelope Valley Press archives.<\/p>\n

In 1995, a local NAACP official asked the school district to ditch \u201cJohnny Reb,\u201d saying it divided the student body. The school later removed all Confederate flags and swords from the mascot\u2019s imagery and redesigned its letterhead, according to the newspaper.<\/p>\n

An English teacher at the school, Carmen Wilson, said the decision feels like a \u201cnew day.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNow I will finally be able to wear spirit gear,\u201d she told the Los Angeles Times. \u201cI haven\u2019t ever even uttered \u2018Quartz Hill Rebels\u2019 in the five years I\u2019ve taught here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Former WWE wrestler George Murdoch \u2014 aka \u201cTyrus\u201d from Fox Nation\u2019s talk show \u201cNuff Said With Tyrus\u201d \u2014 played football, basketball and track at Quartz Hill and said he never understood the Rebel connection in California.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hated it,\u201d Murdoch told the Los Angeles Times. \u201cBeing called a Rebel didn\u2019t make sense to use. We\u2019re not in the South. We\u2019re in California. We just didn\u2019t get it.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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