Did they, though? Is anything less than silent reverence among high schoolers to be the new standard for branding kids as racists?
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Did they, though? Is anything less than silent reverence among high schoolers to be the new standard for branding kids as racists?
DriveInDriveOut
Inordinately Right
Yes they did just watch it.
One kid stood there doing nothing.
A lot of kids were mocking the guy though.
MAKAVELI
Well-Known Member
In the little magots own statement he says he stood there to show he was not fearful or intimidated. Where I'm from, that's called mad-dogging. The video also clearly shows the Magot's surrounding Mr Phillips and mocking him. Too bad they didn't have the balls to step up to the Israelites.
MAKAVELI
Well-Known Member
It's clearly not innocent.
brownmonster
Man of Great Wisdom
I like MAGA hats. They stand out like a mini mart trucker cap. I can tell from a mile away who I won't have to bother talking with.
brownmonster
Man of Great Wisdom
You don't wear those not to be noticed.
BrownFlush
Woke Racist Reigning Ban King
Get it.
The old frail man was the shooter, the kid was and is the target.
oldngray
nowhere special
He started to harass a young girl but she got scared and backed away. He then spotted the MAGA hats and zeroed in on them. He was trying to provoke an incident. He also changed his story of what happened a couple of times and didn't match what the full video showed.
Turdferguson
Just a turd
Did the national media do that?
Are you sure you are not confusing social media with actual media?
Yes. I'd point to examples, but it seems they've mostly been retracted.
Brownslave688
You want a toe? I can get you a toe.
If you see painting yourself in school colors as racist you’re a massive part of the problem. The only way to find racism in something like that is the fact that you’re looking for racism in everything.
Which you’ve shown your one and only angle over and over again here.
Turdferguson
Just a turd
Opinion. ..you can't sue for slander and liable for an opinion .
Words have meaning
Turdferguson
Just a turd
Maybe because it wasn't the media that did it but social media. That would be like someone taking what we say here as being UPS saying it
El Correcto
god is dead
I wish I grew up where you did.
Mean mugging just means a little smile.
You must of grown up in the most polite hood ever.
DriveInDriveOut
Inordinately Right
Here's the text of the original CNN article from the 19th that CBS 13 in Baltimore reposted and hasn't taken down. CNN was one of the more mildly-worded accusers on the left side of the spectrum on the 19th:
Teens In Make America Great Again Hats Taunted A Native American Elder At The Lincoln Memorial
"Teens In Make America Great Again Hats Taunted A Native American Elder At The Lincoln Memorial"
(CNN) — A crowd of teenagers surrounded a Native American elder and other activists and mocked them after Friday’s Indigenous Peoples March at the Lincoln Memorial.
Videos of the confrontation show a smiling young man in a red Make America Great Again hat standing directly in front of the man, who was playing a drum and chanting. Other kids could be seen laughing, jumping around and making fun of the chants.
UPDATE: A New Video Shows A Different Side Of The Encounter Between A Native American Elder And Teens In MAGA Hats
“I did not feel safe in that circle,” said Kaya Taitano, a student at the University of the District of Columbia who participated in the march and shot the videos.
She told CNN that the teens were chanting things like “Build the wall” and “Trump 2020.”
Taitano said the whole incident started when the teens and four young African-Americans, who’d been preaching about the Bible nearby, started yelling and calling each other names.
It got pretty intense, Taitano said, so Nathan Phillips, an elder with the Omaha tribe, started playing his drum and chanting what she was told was a healing prayer, to help defuse the situation.
Phillips walked through the crowd, and Taitano said things were starting to calm down until he got to the grinning boy seen in the video.
“This one kid just refused to move and he just got in Nathan’s face,” she said.
Other boys circled around, she said. “They just surrounded him and they were mocking him and mocking the chant. We really didn’t know what was going to happen there.”
Phillips is a Vietnam veteran who says he served between 1972 and 1976. He is a former director of the Native Youth Alliance and holds an annual ceremony honoring Native American veterans in Arlington National Cemetery.
“I was scared, I was worried for my young friends. I don’t want to cause harm to anyone,” Philips told CNN’s Sara Sidner. “I don’t like the word ‘hate.’ I don’t like even saying it, but it was hate unbridled. It was like a storm.”
The crowd kept growing as Phillips and the boy stood face to face, but Phillips kept on chanting and playing his drum.
“What the young man was doing was blocking my escape. I wanted to leave. I was thinking, ‘How do I get myself out of this? I want to get away from it,'” Phillips said.
Taitano said the standoff continued until a chaperone came and led the teens away for a photograph.
Some of the boys could be seen wearing hoodies and jackets with the name of Covington Catholic High School, an all-boys’ school in Northern Kentucky.
The school’s website said a group of students had planned to attend Friday’s March for Life rally in Washington.
The school is part of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Covington, and in a statement given to CNN affiliate WLWT, spokeswoman Laura Keener said the diocese would investigate the incident and take appropriate action.
“We condemn the actions of the Covington Catholic High School students towards Nathan Phillips specifically, and Native Americans in general, Jan. 18, after the March for Life, in Washington, D.C. We extend our deepest apologies to Mr. Phillips. This behavior is opposed to the Church’s teachings on the dignity and respect of the human person.
“The matter is being investigated and we will take appropriate action, up to and including expulsion. We know this incident also has tainted the entire witness of the March for Life and express our most sincere apologies to all those who attended the March and all those who support the pro-life movement.”
CNN has reached out to the school and diocese for comment.
Taitano, who is from Guam, said she was raised to treat her elders with respect so it hurt to see them treat Phillips so badly.
Phillips also appeared upset in a video Taitano posted after the confrontation. He wiped away tears as he talked about the chants of “build that wall.”
“I wish I could see that energy of the young mass of young men to, you know, put that energy into, you know, making this country really, really great by helping those who are hungry, you know,” Philips said.
The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2019 Cable News Network, Inc., a Time Warner Company. All rights reserved."
The article was "Updated" yesterday with the following title:
"Teen in confrontation with Native American elder says he was trying to defuse the situation"
It takes on a much different tone. See:
Nick Sandmann, Kentucky teen in confrontation with Nathan Phillips, says he was trying to defuse the situation - CNN
upschuck
Well-Known Member
You are liable for libel if you (Definition : a) published false statement that is damaging to a person's reputation; a written defamation
Soooo, the major news is just opinion now? That is where I heard about it first.
DriveInDriveOut
Inordinately Right
Sounds accurate to me.
