America’s in the midst of deep disinfecting. The main pollutants to be eliminated are white supremacy as well as contagions that occur in the Caucasian region.
Apropos of such an undertaking, consider the situation of a statue at Wisconsin’s Kaukauna High School.
In the year 2000, a large piece of bronze artwork was installed near the entrance of the school’s new facilities. Its purpose, per Principal Barbara Fox McCurdy: to provide a “sense of the past.”
The monument modeled a horse mounted by the school’s long-established mascot, the Galloping Ghost.
For a bit of background, at football games since the 1940s, Kaukauna’s game ball has been delivered by a costumed rider. Kelly Vils played the ghost of the game ball in 1998 and took the opportunity to update the costume.
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Vils was proud of her accomplishments, and she shared this with The Post-Crescent through an email. She did however make some modifications to the all-white costume at that time.
It came with a white hood, which she decided to not wear. There wasn’t any discussion about it being insensitive, but she said, “something about the white hood with the eyes cut out just didn’t sit right with me.”
The effigy at issue, to be clear, isn’t in color. There is no hood. The rider is not using his hands to control the breeze and blows in it like a loose sheet.
Yet, some students are sick of the statue — to them, it calls to the KKK.
And there’s a whole half-dozen of ’em:
One of six students who provided written statements to the school board recounted the trauma and hardship passed down through the generations of their family, including their father being called racial slurs while growing up in northeast Wisconsin.
The Ku Klux Klan oppressed Native Americans through “violent and dangerous rhetoric,” the student wrote, saying, “we can not leave it standing any longer.”
The sculpture doesn’t have anything to do with it, they say. But knowing is neither here nor there.
The students said they understand the statue was intended to honor the school’s Galloping Ghost mascot and not to be a hateful symbol, but that isn’t a reason to keep it when it can create an unwelcoming environment for people.
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A group of high school students wants the Galloping Spirit statue at Kaukauna High School to be removed. The issue is not new. Some people claim it has evoked imagery from the KKK. https://t.co/LTt8Xch3SA
— AnnMarie Hilton (@hilton_annmarie) May 2, 2022
As for the Galloping Ghost’s origin, the Kaukauna Public Library indicates two mid-1920s possibilities:
According to one story, a local reporter claimed that the Kaukauna football team in all-white looked like ghosts and was galloping past the Appleton team. The other story credits the coach of the struggling 1924 football team who supposedly asked his players to emulate Harold “Red” Grange, who played for the University of Illinois and later the Chicago Bears and was nicknamed “The Galloping Ghost.”
Will the school’s simulated spirit and his stallion get shot and used for glue?
It’s possible.
[T]he district determined three potential options for the statue’s future, according to an emailed statement from Superintendent Mark Duerwaechter.
The first option is to leave the statue as it is, the second is to add a sign in front that reads “Welcome to the Home of the Galloping Ghost,” and the third is to relocate it away from the front entrance of the high school.
June will see the final decision.
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American history was valued until recently. Now, it’s largely a lot of white supremacy.
And in the past, it was crucial to understand what was actually happening. Presently, what’s misunderstood may topple statues.
Back in 2000, artist Jim Hopfensperger — who created Kaukauna’s $100,000 work — adjusted his original design so a bump on the sheet wouldn’t come across as Klan-ish.
At the time, Jim — who passed away in 2019 — posed, “As far as I’m concerned, it’s a galloping ghost. I mean, how far do we throw this political correctness thing?”
We’re a long way from 2000, and quite a distance from even 2019. In the past, kids who got creeped out were commonly told, “It’s only the wind.” Or, perhaps, “It’s merely the monument of your mascot.” But these days, America is spooked. Many people are still haunted today by the ghosts of white supremacy.
-ALEX
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