UncleBuck
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So no one talked about “tonto” banging his drum so close to that kid ( at a Native American protest)?
Covington catholic school
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UncleBuck
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We all have eyes and saw what happened
UncleBuck
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What we can see with our own eyes is fake news. Okhaha, Fake News again. Does Buck eat whole every fake news article that meets his bias (in this case dislike of white people)? Bucks eats a full diet of fake news! Empty calories probably has a giant beer belly.
https://reason.com/blog/2019/01/20/covington-catholic-nathan-phillips-video
The Media Wildly Mischaracterized That Video of Covington Catholic Students Confronting a Native American Veteran
Journalists who uncritically accepted Nathan Phillips' story got this completely wrong.
Robby Soave|Jan. 20, 2019 3:40 pm
Screenshot via YoutubePartial video footage of students from a Catholic high school allegedly harassing a Native American veteran after the anti-abortion March for Life rally in Washington, D.C., over the weekend quickly went viral, provoking widespread condemnation of the kids on social media. Various media figures and Twitter users called for them to be doxed, shamed, or otherwise punished, and school administrators said they would consider expulsion.
But the rest of the video—nearly two hours of additional footage showing what happened before and after the encounter—adds important context that strongly contradicts the media's narrative.
Far from engaging in racially motivated harassment, the group of mostly white, MAGA-hat-wearing male teenagers remained relatively calm and restrained despite being subjected to incessant racist, homophobic, and bigoted verbal abuse by members of the bizarre religious sect Black Hebrew Israelites, who were lurking nearby. The BHI has existed since the late 19th century, and is best describes as a black nationalist cult movement; its members believe they are descendants of the ancient Israelites, and often express condemnation of white people, Christians, and gays. DC-area Black Hebrews are known to spout particularly vile bigotry.
Phillips put himself between the teens and the black nationalists, chanting and drumming as he marched straight into the middle of the group of young people. What followed was several minutes of confusion: The teens couldn't quite decide whether Phillips was on their side or not, but tentatively joined in his chanting. It's not at all clear this was intended as an act of mockery rather than solidarity.
One student did not get out of Phillips way as he marched, and gave the man a hard stare and a smile that many have described as creepy. This moment received the most media coverage: The teen has been called the product of a "hate factory" and likened to a school shooter, segregation-era racist, and member of the Ku Klux Klan. I have no idea what he was thinking, but portraying this as an example of obvious, racially-motivated hate is a stretch. Maybe he simply had no idea why this man was drumming in his face, and couldn't quite figure out the best response? It bears repeating that Phillips approached him, not the other way around.
And that's all there is to it. Phillips walked away after several minutes, the Black Hebrew Israelites continued to insult the crowd, and nothing else happened.
You can judge for yourself. Here is video footage of the full incident, from the perspective of the black nationalists. Phillips enters the picture around the 1:12 mark, but if you skip to that part, you miss an hour of the Black Hebrew Israelites hurling obscenities at the students. They call them crackers, faggots, and pedophiles. At the 1:20 mark (which comes after the Phillips incident) they call one of the few black students the n-word and tell him that his friends are going to murder him and steal his organs. At the 1:25 mark, they complain that "you give faggots rights," which prompted booing from the students. Throughout the video they threaten the kids with violence, and attempt to goad them into attacking first. The students resisted these taunts admirably: They laughed at the hecklers, and they perform a few of their school's sports cheers.
It was at this moment that Phillips, who had attended a nearby peace protest led by indigenous peoples, decided to intervene. He would later tell The Detroit Free Press that the teenagers "were in the process of attacking these four black individuals" and he decided to attempt to de-escalate the situation. He seems profoundly mistaken: The video footage taken by the black nationalists shows no evidence the white teenagers had any intention of attacking. Nevertheless, Phillips characterized the kids as "beasts" and the hate-group members as "their prey":
"There was that moment when I realized I've put myself between beast and prey," Phillips said. "These young men were beastly and these old black individuals was their prey, and I stood in between them and so they needed their pounds of flesh and they were looking at me for that."
Again, all the evidence suggests that Phillips got it backward.
He also claimed that he heard chants of "build the wall." While I cannot rule out the possibility that some of the kids indeed chanted this—those who were wearing MAGA hats are presumably Trump supporters—I did not hear a single utterance of the phrase in the nearly two hours of video footage I watched. Admittedly, the kids do a lot of chanting and it's not always possible to tell what they are saying. Their stated explanation is that they engaged in a series of school sports chants: That's what one student told a local news reporter. His account largely tracks with the video.
"We are an all-male school that loves to get hyped up," said this student. "And as we have done for years prior, we decided to do some cheers to pass time. In the midst of our cheers, we were approached by a group of adults led by Nathan Phillips, with Phillips beating his drum. They forced their way to the center of our group. We initially thought this was a cultural display since he was beating along to our cheers and so we clapped to the beat." According to this student, the smiling student was grinning because he was enjoying the music, but eventually became confused, along with everyone else. (Indeed, multiple people can be heard to shout, "what is going on?")
It would be impossible to definitively state that none of the young men did anything wrong, offensive, or problematic, at some point, and maybe the smiling student was attempting to intimidate Phillips. But there's shockingly little evidence of wrongdoing, unless donning a Trump hat and standing in a group of other people doing the same is now an act of harassment or violence. Phillips' account, meanwhile, is at best flawed, and arguably deliberately misleading.
Unless other information emerges, the school's best move would be to have a conversation with the boys about the incident, perhaps discuss some strategies for remaining on perfect behavior at highly charged political rallies—where everybody is recording everything on a cell phone—and let that be the end of it.
The boys are undoubtedly owed an apology from the numerous people who joined this social media pile-on. This is shaping up to be one of the biggest major media misfires in quite some time.
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ginjawarrior
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i know you wouldnt have watched any of the follow up videos timestamped or not
so what is it you saw buck?
a group of teenager from the school disturbing an indian protest and surrounding them?
is that what your own eyes saw buck?
tangerinegreen555
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I'm not angry.
And you never worked a day in your life. Fuck the excuses dude. Work means work. You don't.
UncleBuck
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the power of the image is that everyone recognizes the sneering grin that smug little prick wore on his punchable little face as his klan-hooded little shit buddies cheered him on and chanted "build the wall" and did tomahawk chops
you can cry all you want about how you don't like that "indian" but you're never going to convince a single person that what they saw wasn't an entitled little racist prick
squarepush3r
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ginjawarrior
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RIGHT that makes it clearer...
you havent even watched the viral video
you have only seen the picture and been told what to think
there is no chanting "build the wall" on the audio in the video or the other longer one
stay honest buck
you can pretend you know what you "saw with your own eyes"
other people will have the integrity to look for themselves
like the journalists at the highly racist newpaper the newyork times...
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/20/us/nathan-phillips-covington.html
MichiganMedGrower
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You see things how you want. Personal space should be observed. The kid mentioned that too.
Everything is not so cut and dry. Even if you need it to be for your personal goals.
UncleBuck
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this just in: person is opposed to bad things
MichiganMedGrower
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You sure sound angry. And you are still focusing on me.
our schedule was 60 hrs plus when i was in the industry.
It has been shown that 2 hours of public speaking equals 8 hours of hard labor in stress to the body.
You point at excuses that are not there.
Your opinion is unfounded.
UncleBuck
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LOL
thanks for making my day
yep, no way i could ever see a smug little prick and decide for myself that i am looking at a smug little prick
thans for telling me how i came to think what i think
no way a bunch of racist kids in maga hats chanted "build the wall" as they did tomahawk chops, so let's disregard what the native american veteran himself heard
oh, can i look at videos and images myself and see what i am obviously seeing?
thanks, princess. now get back to your nazi apologism in the other thread, bitch tits
MichiganMedGrower
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And is so emotional about it that she sees them where they may not exist.
UncleBuck
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then the kid should have given that veteran his personal space instead of a smug, prickish sneer as his klan-hatted friends did war whoops and tomahawk chops and chanted "build the wall"
racism aside, i've got to question the history education these little racist fucks are receiving to chant "build the wall" a a native american
UncleBuck
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holy crap what a fucking joke you are
MichiganMedGrower
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You didnt watch the video.
MichiganMedGrower
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Standard teaching in the sales and seminar courses for many years.
And unless you have done both how can you comment?
UncleBuck
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yes i have
i saw the tomahawk chops and everything
it was a native american protest. smug little prick kid should have had the basic respect to give that veteran his room
MichiganMedGrower
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You heard the chanting about the wall too?
You have lost it. You need a better hobby.
blaze 57
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Even liberal CNN's Jake Tapper admits video footage strongly contradicts native american after review in tweet today.
Glad to see even liberals calling spade a spade.
https://mobile.twitter.com/jaketapper/status/1087100286433402881
Glad to see even liberals calling spade a spade.
https://mobile.twitter.com/jaketapper/status/1087100286433402881