I'm from (and still am, unfortunately) Port Neches. It's 90 percent rotten, with 10 percent of us stuck here for some shitty reason or another.
I have kids that go to these schools. It's the worst and you have to be careful criticizing because the last thing you'd want to do is paint a target on your kids back. The school staff and board are nearly unanimously on board and will likely dig their heels harder after this.
I went to these schools, too. At a very young age (kindergarten) you're learning the fight song which includes the "scalp 'em Indians, scalp 'em" chant. It's utterly racist and bizarre, but the kids have been doing it for so long it's normal to them. It takes the parents to make the kids understand what's fucked up about the entire thing and you aren't going to get that in this bigot town with the vast majority of parents.
There are, like any town, good people here. But the leadership and most of the older generation are the worst, biggest Trumpers you'll ever meet.
Port Neches sucks ass and so do our neighbors. PN-G's biggest football rival the Nederland Bulldogs did the dumbest, most pathetic response in solidarity the last time this controversy came up and took a mascot picture with the Bulldog and our mascot, the Indian Spirit, together. The Indian Spirit is a white kid dressed … just Google it.
