That's literally why you bumped this topic!
I bumped this topic because media bias told an untrue narrative of what happened.
The Covington kids were taking heat for the video of them with the Native protesters, but you talk about some other video with a completely different group of people acting terribly, then claim that everyone "has egg on their face" for criticizing the teens.
Okay? I'm not saying the Hebrew Israelites and the Native Americans were in it together. I'm saying there is a much larger narrative here that the media didn't initially show, including what started the whole thing (HI). Phillips, who by the way, ISN'T a Vietnam Vet, he's a Vietnam ERA vet, another fact the media got wrong, (
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/nathan-phillips-vietnam-veteran/)says he tried to diffuse the situation and ended up being caught between a "predator and it's pray", comes up to the MAGA kid and beats his drum in his face. There are a series of events that happened, I'm not sure how you can't follow that. Liberal Hollywood has egg on their faces, just look to Kathy Griffin and Paton Oswald...many more. Liberal media has egg on it's face for this and the BuzzFeed story, both of which were reported with factual inacurracies. But this part:
The Hebrew Israelites are not affiliated with the Native protesters that were there for the Indigenous Peoples March, and the Natives aren't responsible for the actions of the Hebrew Israelites just because they are both minorities.
Yeah, I know. No one said this. YOU MADE THIS UP. I said the kids acted more mature than all the adults involved.
The Native protesters marched between the two groups to try to prevent escalation.
Bullshit, this is a political publicity stunt. He has a history of doing this sort of thing to escalate things. But that's an opinion of mine, so we'll assume to take him at his word.
Is that justification for how the teens acted towards them? Do you have ANY justification for how the teens acted towards the Native protesters? Because that's the cause of the original uproar.... the one that you said justified Trump's attacks on the media as the "enemy of the people."
They were justified already. I don't know what your talking about. There's an 1.5 hour long video showing they did nothing wrong. The worst that happened is a couple of kids did the tomahawk, which you'll see at any Braves or FSU game. If that's disrespectful, well, they are still KIDS and I only saw a couple do it. All while an ADULT is banging a drum in a KIDS face to get a reaction out of him. And liberal ADULTS blasting this kids information online. And liberal ADULTS issuing death threats.
...they're terrible? I haven't seen anyone anywhere defending them, but the Natives do not somehow share responsibility for them.
We agree on them being terrible. I keep bringing them up because they are the catalyst that started this whole thing. I think everyone in the world knows they don't share responsibility for each other, they each do their own shitty things separately.
"It looked like these young men were going to attack these guys. They were going to hurt them. They were going to hurt them because they didn't like the color of their skin. They didn't like their religious views. They were just here in front of the Lincoln -- Lincoln is not my hero, but at the same time, there was this understanding that he brought the (Emancipation Proclamation) or freed the slaves, and here are American youth who are ready to, look like, lynch these guys. To be honest, they looked like they were going to lynch them. They were in this mob mentality. Where were their parents? Because they were obvious a student group."--
https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/21/us/nathan-phillips-maga-teens-interview/index.html This is the biggest load of crap I've ever seen. This is a blatant lie. And you're right, the videos speak for themselves...it speaks that the teens did nothing wrong.
I'm not going to discuss the Clintons with you unless you make a new thread. Those were one off comments.
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