Nathan Phillips rally attempted to disrupt Mass at DC’s National Shrine

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And doesn’t tone things down mean turn the volume down? Yet the beating of the drum so close to the boy’s face… It DID seem threatening to me. If it had been me my eyes would have jerked shut with every beat of the drum…
 
Allie1 said:
should have deferred, given ground, listened
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Exactly what should they have done, that would have been “deference” because if anything Nick Sandmann did stand there and listen and politely smiled while, to him as a youth, a frightening event was happening. An unknown man with a drum was in his face.
 
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I have already made the point that Mr. Phillips is essentially irrelevant to my perspective on the action of the children.
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I am completely at a loss then as to what your criticism of the children are. Are you criticizing their interaction with Mr Phillips specifically or their behavior of the event in total? From their interactions with the black protesters to their statement of the events after the fact? What specifically did they do wrong?
 
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I know when I want to mellow out and increase the peace, the first thing I do is grab my snare and/or digeridoo. Come on.
 
Dr_Meinheimer said:
MAGA hats, more likely.
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I am sure that is part of it too, but after listening to the video and his demanding that the Catholic church take the blame for all that has happened to the Native Americans over the years, I think his anger at the Church could have added to his motives.
 
What a mature person does: walk over, say hello, introduce yourself to the first kid in the group.
What Mr. Phillips did: well, you know.
 
That works. Hymns in German.
If only Slim Whitman and Boxcar Willie had been there
 
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Why not all of it together? Definitely demonstrates intent to quiet things down.
 
prayerrider said:
While he was drumming, Jesus stood there and smiled at him.
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I am sure God would have loved to hear them play their beautiful chants in His Basilica… If we could just have asked Him, He would have said, “Let them in, don’t you know, Ephesians 3:6 that the gentiles are coheirs, members of the same body, and copartners in the promise in the Christ Jesus through the gospel?” He would have put warm jackets on their shoulders, prepared them with hot dinner and washed their feet. That should have been the gesture given by the members of the Church that would have made them convert…
 
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What 'could have been done better?"
And who would have been 'doing it"?

Hindsight is always 20/20.
 
Hindsight is how we improve. How about not smirking, smiling or whatever that was? There was nothing funny about the situation. How about trying to engage the guy like an adult, offering to shake hands and introducing yourself? How about being the leader to tell your classmates to sit down and listen to him? How about removing the hats for prayer and saying a rosary instead of a school chant, representing Jesus and not the president. I wasn’t there, which is why talking about the situation would have to be a dialogue.

Mr. Phillips questioned what is being taught to children these days. This would be the type of instruction that can build more than manners, but resiliency and flexibility. It is the type of teaching that Mr. Phillips seemed to have missed in his childhood.
 
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