Oops. The article didn't proofread that quote, and neither did I when quoting them. Yes. I'm sure "trees" was intended.
Oops. The article didn't proofread that quote, and neither did I when quoting them. Yes. I'm sure "trees" was intended.
“Lynching tress [sic] typically are not evergreens,” [committee member Martin Osborne] added, saying deciduous trees with large, lower branches were typically used to hang Black people in the south.
“Lynching tress [sic] typically are not evergreens,” [committee member Martin Osborne] added, saying deciduous trees with large, lower branches were typically used to hang Black people in the south.
Toothpicks are generally made from birch trees, and birch trees are deciduous trees which have trunks, and evergreen trees have trunks. Lynchers often chewed toothpicks while lynching spooks, so evergreens are in fact connected with lynchings. Case closed, evergreen trees are racist.
And don't even get me started on the Evergreen Q theories. Hoo boy, White Supremacy link there for sure.
Toothpicks are generally made from birch trees, and birch trees are deciduous trees which have trunks, and evergreen trees have trunks. Lynchers often chewed toothpicks while lynching spooks, so evergreens are in fact connected with lynchings. Case closed, evergreen trees are racist.
And don't even get me started on the Evergreen Q theories. Hoo boy, White Supremacy link there for sure.
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