Wokeness claims another victim.. Herbie Husker, the college of Nebraska was apparently flashing a “white supremacist” sign, with the OK hand gesture. So Nebraska caves to wokeness and took out the “OK” hand gesture from their mascot. Please make it stop!
The University of Nebraska altered its mascot — which it had for nearly 50 years without incident — to avoid any connection with white supremacy.
Dick West — a longtime newspaper cartoonist from Lubbock, Texas — created Herbie Husker for the University of Nebraska. Herbie Husker is a corn farmer wearing blue overalls and a red cowboy hat with a football in one hand and making the “OK” gesture with his other hand. He was in the school’s 1974 media guide and in the Cotton Bowl later that year.
On Friday, the University of Nebraska announced that Herbie Husker would be altered as not to be confused with a white power hand gesture.
“That hand gesture could, in some circles, represent something that does not represent what Nebraska athletics is about,” said Lonna Henrichs, Nebraska’s athletic department’s licensing and branding director. “We just didn’t even want to be associated with portraying anything that somebody might think, you know, that it means white power.”