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[FONT="]Phillips, a 64-year-old Marine, veteran of the Vietnam War, and longtime Native American activist from Michigan, was in Washington, D.C. on Friday afternoon for the Indigenous Peoples March. Phillips told the [/FONT]Detroit Free Press[FONT="] that the viral incident was sparked when a crowd of roughly 100 people, including the teenagers seen in the video, gradually splintered off from a [/FONT]March for Life[FONT="] event to confront a nearby group of Black Hebrew Israelites.[/FONT][FONT="]As the teenagers began to attack the Black Israelites — and Phillips noted that the Black Israelites also began to say “some harsh things” in retaliation and self-defense — Phillips made a spur of the moment decision to intervene and prevent the situation from escalating further. He physically placed himself between both groups, and the anger from the students, a group of mostly white, male teenagers, was then directed at him.[/FONT]
[FONT="]"There was that moment when I realized I've put myself between beast and prey," Phillips told the Free Press. "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."[/FONT]
[FONT="]The students, who attend Covington Catholic High School in Kentucky, began jeering at Phillips as he took his drum and began singing. In the video, the teens can be heard chanting “Build the wall ” and yelling derogatory language and slurs. One boy walked up to Phillips and stood inches away from his face, smiling and unmoving.[/FONT]
[FONT="]Phillips said the kind of glee in the teenagers’ face was “ugly” and reminiscent of photographed reactions to lynchings from the mid-20th century. He described their behavior as a reaction to learning “there’s more truth out there than what they’re being taught” in their schools — and they took issue with people who are not like them.[/FONT]
[FONT="]“One thing that I was taught in my Marine Corp training is that a scared man will kill you,” he said. “And that's what these boys were. They were scared."[/FONT]
(The kids are actually the heros in this story!)
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JFC. Why do so many people just have to have a good vs. evil narrative about everything?
The black Israelites behaved poorly, like people you should probably just walk right on past.
The Native Vet probably would have done better to do just that, rather than walk between them.
The Kids would have done much better not to make racist "tomahawk chops" at the Native vet while mimicking his tune. After all, it's quite possible to laugh at someone without actually being a racist at them.
The media would have done better to put front and center in their initial reports that they only have the one video right now, and things might change. (Though, I suspect many did, but like very quickly issued corrections, it got ignored to serve the RW anti-media narrative). Really, most reports were true. The only thing gotten wrong was a claim that the kid walked over to the Native, when in fact, the native walked towards the group, up and down it, and then got surrounded, whereupon the stare-down/drum competition happened.
There are a lot of people who could have done better here. Why do the kids have to be lionized as martyrs? Oh right. I know why they have to be lionized.
If you don't do that, you can't serve the meta-narrative that the media, in collusion with "liberals", is deliberately trying to victimize conservatives, white males, Christians, all of whom are allegedly the real victims of modern racism.
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And you all wonder why we can't have nice things? You love this ****. You also want to hear everything immediately. You can't wait. So strap in, because we'll have a whole lot more examples of media issuing incomplete reports unless you stop watching TV news. Just cut it. They serve a market. YOU create that market. Then you complain when the inevitable happens.
But then, that's what you want, really. Right? Because if that happens, hoooo-boy can we stoke the meta-narrative.
The native american's right hand man was shouting anti-white, colonial rhetoric too. He didnt "just try to walk past the kids". He tried to walk THROUGH them after saying anti-white stuff. Chief ****ting Bull is not innocent what so ever.
And CNN's retraction was just a "Whoops another video came out which leads to possible different events" instead of apologizing PROFUSELY and making it VERY obvious how they messed up.
Again, a whole lot of people behaved poorly, but (1) no, the teens aren't heroes or innocent victims, (2) no, one bad actor does not excuse another bad actor's actions, (3) no, the media wasn't entirely wrong. It got most things right, but not everything given its desire to produce the 24/7 news product modern customers demand, (4) no, even though every single media outlet is biased in some way, there is not some left-leaning media conspiracy to make white conservatives the victims all the time.
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What's the point, now, of keeping on doing this? Are we supposed to fight over a ranking of who was worse in descending order?
The kids did nothing wrong. The BHI transgressed the kids and the native americans marched directly at the kids. And some of the Natives were even shouting hate speach at kids. Kids for christ's sake! Who the F marches directly at kids standing on their own side of the isle?!? Then lies and says the kids surrounded them...
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