A group of Tomahawk chopping teens, laughing and jeering, is somehow excused because Mr. Phillips is a professional instigator? I might call him an activist for his people. I'll trust the judgment of someone who
walked 40 miles through snow and ice with him.
I think instead about how much the narrative changed in some people's mind after Mr. Sandmann hired a PR firm (with ties to Mitch McConnell).
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And so it has been. But as Ms Nagle wrote,
I Know What I Saw
I saw Mr. Phillips, as he has stated, walk up in what seems to be an attempt to diffuse a tense situation as he walked between two groups. I see the teens respond by laughing, dancing, chopping, the red MAGA hsts, the smugness of power. Regardless of Phillip's service record or problems he had while a youth, that image remains.
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And no, Mr Phillips was not banging his drum, yelling. Listen to the song that he sang, which was gifted to the people. Understand it's meaning.
Maybe the behavior that I see goes with the territory of the school. Or at least what was expressed in this photo from a few years back.
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But we can do better than that. Perhaps we don't in regard to this incident because two-thirds of American people don't believe that Native Americans experience racial discrimination.
Invisibility is the Modern Form of Racism Against Native Americans
Please read what Native writers have written.
American Indians in Children's Literature (AICL): Native Perspectives on Nathan Phillips and the Covington Catholic School boys[/QUOTE
He instigated. Why couldn't he stay away from the students? Why'd he have to get 1" from the kids face? I know what I would do if someone got 1" from my face while yelling & banging a drum. He's got a track record of being a disturber. Plus, in my book - if you've got AWOL multiple times while in the service - then you are a shit bird. BTW - when left wing news stations ran with the "He's a Vietnam Vet" lie - it's funny, because I remember the left wing spitting on our military and beating them up when those Vet's returned home. Now all of a sudden they are a champion of Vietnam Vets? LOL.
Here's 3 quick videos of why I'll never vote left again. Because if I did, these are the violent, whacko, mob-rules type people I would be aligning myself with; (Lies, lies lies yeah-ah. They're gonna getcha!)