Their parents must be so proud?: Controversy about Kentucky pro-life marchers DC

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They have various game themes, including a “white out” theme. I do think that painting themselves all black was a little unwise, given the existence and history of actual blackface. And I understand that at first glance it looks bad. But in context, it doesn’t seem bad at all. I don’t believe they are being racist
 
Another Covington home B-ball game, courtesy of Cassandra Fairbanks. This is absolute proof that they racially mock blue-skinned players!!!

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You really should give all this hate a rest now. For your own soul, if nothing else.
Everybody please pray for John right now. Seriously! Join us John, we need you on our side here!
 
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Oh no! I can’t take this disrespect towards blue-skinned people! Ahhhhh!
 
Or those people from Avatar. The Navoo, is it?
Wouldn’t they be great at hoops?!
 
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prayerrider said:
This is absolute proof that they racially mock blue-skinned players!!!
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It’s certainly interesting that they don’t have the face paint and minstrel show makeup when they’re wearing blue paint. I wonder why they feel the need when they’re wearing black paint.
 
Who knows? Maybe some are wearing blue face paint out of frame, it’s a much more close in shot. Maybe they didn’t have much, or any. Maybe it’s allergenic, and black face paint isn’t. Could be lots of reasons we’re not seeing blue face paint here.
Look close and you’ll see plenty of white face paint in this one. Front row. That’s an easy one to do. As is black.

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If anyone shows up to protest at Covington, they should be invited in for some delicious high school cafeteria pizza.
They won’t be coming back.

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I appreciate the prayers bro. Maybe in the meantime, you will stop denigrating a bunch of innocent kids as racists.
 
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John24 said:
[prayerrider:] How does a boy “block your retreat” when he’s standing in front of you and doesn’t even move?
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But Mr. Phillips has admitted to the Washington Post that he had no intention of retreating or going around the boy. For him, the boy represented 500 years of injustice to his people.
Washington Post:
But Phillips also said he saw more than a teenage boy in front of him. He saw a long history of white oppression of Native Americans.

“Why I should go around him?” he asked. “I’m just thinking of 500 years of genocide in this country, what your people have done. You don’t even see me as a human being.”
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That certainly damages his case. Why this particular boy? Why make him the object of your indignation? He did nothing to you and doesn’t know you.
 
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He saw a long history of white oppression of Native Americans
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So by his own admission, what he really saw in front of him was not a young, confused human being, but a “history of oppression.”
 
Wampa said:
Welcome to politics in 2019: where many news events are manufactured and most outage (on both sides) is calculated for partisan advantage!
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Just to follow-up on my point from far up-thread, it is now being learned who perpetrated making this manufactured news go viral and how:


The Twitter account that started the spread of the first video claimed to belong to a California schoolteacher, but had a profile photo of a blogger based in Brazil, i.e. it’s a fake account. It makes mostly partisan Democratic posts on average 130 times a day.
CNN:
Molly McKew, an information warfare researcher who saw the tweet and shared it herself on Saturday, said she later realized that a network of anonymous accounts were working to amplify the video.

Speaking about the nature of fake accounts on social media, McKew told CNN Business, “This is the new landscape: where bad actors monitor us and appropriate content that fits their needs. They know how to get it where they need to go so it amplifies naturally. And at this point, we are all conditioned to react and engage or deny in specific ways. And we all did.”
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For as much as those on the left like to rail about Russian fake accounts driving reaction on the right (and I actually agree with that), be aware that the exact same thing is happening to you.

We all love our technology (me included), but I do think social media and the fact that everyone carries a phone with a camera will eventually doom us, because we are so easy to manipulate (the bolded part) for partisan advantage now.
 
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Josh Marhsall has a good take on what happened with a lengthy video of ow it all unfolded.

talkingpointsmemo.com

Making Sense of the Phillips-Sandmann Viral Video

Over the last couple days I've been watching the unfolding reaction and re-reactions to the video of the confrontation between Native American activist and elder Nathan Phillips and a crowd of high…
talkingpointsmemo.com

I think that the chaperones were wrong to allow their large group of boys to engage the small group of "Black Israelite”. There was nothing to be gained and a risk of escalation.

I think that Nathan Phillips sought to stand between the groups and diffuse the situation with drum/chant.
I am very sad that the boys did not defer to an elder, and that many mocked him. I can only assume that they have limited awareness of Native American culture.

A little more on Nathan Phillips:

omaha.com

Who is Nathan Phillips? Years ago, Omaha Tribe member said spiritual journey was grounded in mall prayer vigil

The following article, written by Matt Kelley, originally ran in the Omaha World-Herald on Nov. 26, 2000.
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Nathan himself admitted he didn’t see boys, but “500 years of oppression.” Would a man who wants to spread peace say something inflammatory like this? He walked into a group of students and seemingly targeted one of them. The boy, Nick, didn’t even move! He didn’t approach the elder to block his path. The elder approached him, and made no effort to indicate that he wanted to move past him. Nathan held the drum up to Nick’s face and beat it, while another Native started harassing the boys for being white. I do think that the chaperone should have intervened, though. He could’ve gone up to Nick and move him to the side, or he could’ve gone up to Nathan and indicated to him that he was welcome to move past Nick, if he wanted to. Which he apparently did not. As for the ‘mocking,’ the boys were already doing school chants. Then this guy comes up beating a drum and doing his own chant. The boys probably thought he was coming in to join in on the fun, and they started “singing along.” Even if it sounded bad.
 
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Nathan himself admitted he didn’t see boys, but “500 years of oppression.
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You neglected to mention that things were already getting out of hand, that the school chants were already a reaction to the Black Israelites, and that Phillips sought to intervene.
You seem to assume that the drumming was aggressive, but in my experience it is seriously prayerful.
The boys should have deferred to an elder (it is quite possible that Phillips was shocked that the didn’t, and that excited his own feelings). When they didn’t, their chaperones should have intervened and facilitated a learning experience.
 
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