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Wednesday, January 23, 2019
Students in 'MAGA' hats mock Native American after rally
January 20, 2019 9:45 AM:
In this Friday, Jan. 18, 2019 image
made from video provided by the Survival Media Agency, a teenager
wearing a "Make America Great Again" hat, center left, stands in front
of an elderly Native American singing and playing a drum in Washington.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Covington in Kentucky is looking into this
and other videos that show youths, possibly from the diocese's all-male
Covington Catholic High School, mocking Native Americans at a rally in
Washington. (Survival Media Agency via AP)
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A diocese in Kentucky apologized Saturday after
videos emerged showing students from a Catholic boys' high school
mocking Native Americans outside the Lincoln Memorial after a rally in
Washington.
The Indigenous Peoples March in Washington on Friday
coincided with the March for Life, which drew thousands of anti-abortion
protesters, including a group from Covington Catholic High School in
Park Hills.
Videos
circulating online show a youth staring at and standing extremely close
to Nathan Phillips, a 64-year-old Native American man singing and
playing a drum.
Other
students, some wearing Covington clothing and many wearing "Make
America Great Again" hats and sweat shirts, surrounded them, chanting,
laughing and jeering.
Look at all the punks mocking this man. They act exactly the way I remember them acting when I was in Catholic high school. The shithead with a smile standing so close to the Native American deserves expulsion. Or maybe a Catholic priest could bugger these boys to shake them up. Catholics are pigs.
BUMP: January 22,2019 10:41 AM
"Editorial: MAGA-hatted teens, a Native American and the peril of instant judgment"
An editorial from the Chicago Tribune:
"But the reaction turns out to be a cautionary tale about jumping to
conclusions. Other videos of the gathering showed the students being
subjected to nasty slurs by black protesters known as the Hebrew
Israelites; the teens eventually countered with chants. It was Phillips
who strode up close to the boy in the MAGA hat, singing and beating a
drum. Robby Soave of Reason watched two hours of footage and didn’t hear
a single 'build the wall.'"
How do insults by the "Hebrew Israelites" lead these
Catholic piglets to taunt and mock Native Americans? Did you see how
many students were doing "the tomahawk" during the drumming? They were
dancing and taunting a Native American elder because they were insulted
by black supremacists? That makes no sense. I went to Catholic high
school. The in-crowd was always picking on the out-crowd. The boys
were bullies and the priests were molesters. Nothing's changed in 50
years.
Read more: https://journaltimes.com/print_specific/column/editorial-maga-hatted-teens-a-native-american-and-the-peril/article_2b3b976d-3d7a-5da7-be6e-dd4c1e45b3fa.html
BUMP: January23, 2019 1:30 PM