The University of Nebraska has changed its mascot because lunatic liberals convinced people that the “okay” hand gesture is a secret code for “white power.”
The sign gained popularity as a meme on the right during the 2016 election because Donald Trump makes the gesture during speeches when he is making a point.
University of Nebraska’s Cornhuskers mascot has long been a man in a cowboy hat holding a football with a husk of corn in his pocket. With his free hand, he was making the “okay” sign.
Now, the mascot is making the “number one” hand gesture.
“That hand gesture could, in some circles, represent something that does not represent what Nebraska athletics is about,” Lonna Henrichs, the UNL athletic department’s licensing and branding director, told the Flatwater Free Press. “We just didn’t even want to be associated with portraying anything that somebody might think, you know, that it means white power.’
Henrichs added, “we made that change as quick as we could.”
The report continued, “Lawrence Chatters, the athletic department’s first senior staff-level head of diversity, equity and inclusion, was hired after the decision was made. He’s proud of the decision. He said he wants the Huskers to be ‘competitively inclusive.'”
“When there is hatred and hurt attached to a symbol, or a word, or a gesture, we have to pay attention to it,” Chatters said . “We don’t have the choice to just say, ‘well, that’s not what you think it is.’”
“Truthfully, those (hate) groups do exist. Truthfully, those are movements that have caused issues in our country. We’re not talking about a false reality here.”
