If so, what are your thoughts?

... a situation doesn't escalate and to teach them how to respectfully approach a situation where if they thought they were being harassed they come on out on top.

Right now even with the elongated video the response to Phillips makes them look like little jerks where dialogue would've served everyone better.

I know there are marches and demonstrations in DC all the time - but since this was to be a bigger day because of the Womens marches - this becomes a special target.

Im reminded of some of the groups and activities the Russians were able to gin up in the 2016 election.

I mean - who came up with the idea to go there?

How did they get the idea?

They have a march around this time every year - have been doing so since 1974.

Thats way too broad an explanation...

Remember this?

https://money.cnn.com/2017/10/18/media/black-fist-russia-self-defense-classes/index.html

This is the kind of activity Im suggesting might have brought certain groups to DC this day.

Don't know anything about that - but perhaps there is something to it.

I think I read this wasn’t their first trip to the March.

that they have been taking students to the march since 2008. It is such an annual event that there is a specific sub heading for it on their web site.
Also on the page, there is a picture of several of the boys from last year's march wearing MAGA hats.

[link:https://www.covcath.org/campus-life/spiritual-life/march-for-life|

I would not dismiss this...I could see the local schools participating - but from Kentucky?!

Were there a lot of Catholic Groups that traveled hundreds of miles to go to the march?

This march is an annual event which is heavily promoted nationally among Catholics and Protestant anti-choicers near and far.

https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/01/18/politics/march-for-life/index.html?r=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F

“(CNN) — Crowds of people packed the National Mall on Friday for the March for Life, an annual march against abortion.
Citizens from all corners of the United States braved the frigid weather, chanted anti-abortion slogans, waved flags and hoisted signs as activists and lawmakers argued against the practice of abortion.”

Rolling something like that into a field trip to DC is not at all an unusual thing for a Catholic school to do. There were likely more schools from Covington there, since one of the adults with them is the superintendant of schools for the diocese.

Expecting some sort of accounting of every group there is a ridiculous demand, since it’s not as if there is anyone keeping a census of groups that show up.

https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2019/01/19/video-shows-apparent-incident-indigenous-peoples-march/2623820002/

“The school and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Covington issued a joint statement Saturday afternoon after millions viewed videos of the imbroglio and hundreds if not thousands denounced the private, all-boys school. The school has traditionally sent students to D.C. for the annual March for Life.”

So all these people were in DC that weekend - what could go wrong...???

Why do they schedule the Womens March so proximate to the MFL?

It’s their senior trip. 🤷🏻?♀️

I was stuck in traffic for over an hour before giving up when I couldn't get to my office due to road closures. I was stuck behind or saw parked along the road buses with license plates or company logos from all over the country. The most distant of them came from Colorado, which is probably 3x the distance to DC as the distance between DC and Covington KY. And there were others from North Carolina, Illinois, Tennessee, Alabama, etc.

So yes, there were many Catholic groups that travelled hundreds of miles to attend the march. There are every year.

know what sex and procreation is all about. Do you think Catholic schools teach their students anything about sex or safe sex? I highly doubt it. This is so fucked up.

You’re really stretching here, aren’t you? Wonder why?

the March for Life is like a second Christmas for them.

These kids have no idea what they are doing and why they are doing it. Are they all going to remain starched little virgins until they are married?

Most of the March for Life is indoctrinated school kids getting bused to DC. Without the indoctrinated kids there would barely be any March. That’s why they hold it on a Fri- they’d get fewer schools on Sat, which is when every other March is held.

...dialogue would've been better than responding like jerks.

I don’t really understand, what’s the point of the whole video besides that the MAGA kids were hateful losers?

After skipping about seems to me like another case of religion gone wild. The cause of many of society's inability to actually be religious. Like money or anything else when you become fanatical about it.

Nothing like a tribe of pampered, religious, children to confront and intimidate those who are smaller in number and (oh no) different. How dare they be different in front of these pampered kids.

It's as if they don't know that American Indians have rights to this country long before their relatives step foot on this continent.

As a resident of Covington and grad of CCH 73 I don't need to see the video, I see it everyday. Covington is in a very red congressional district, with a little blue in the cities .The money to send a child to Covington Catholic makes it too expensive for most today. My single parent mother sent two sons to graduate in 71 and 73. The point being these children learn these things at home and is reinforced at school. They are children and this would be a great teaching moment if the school is up to it. At home they will still find trumpers galore

What was the school like when you were there?

Anyway, Welcome to DU!

The county is about 60-40 Republican.

My HS was that much back in the 1980s!

Nouveau riche? Posers?

What happened to defuse the situation?

I would encourage you to watch it - you can skip to the part where it basically ends and draw your own conclusions.

videos don't play very well and to get there would take a few hours. Go ahead, give me your best synopsis. Thanks

Everyone mills about a bit - the Black Israelites speak to a smaller assembled group (including some of the students), argue with some of them. The bus arrives and the students leave to get on it.

What else could those kids do. The equanimity that he exudes is inspirational.

often has a... but that not quite all there is to the story follow up.

And also seem to not want to talk about some of the awfulness found therein.

Much easier to keep alive a white hot hatred for some high school kids.

....bunch of HS boys being jerks, who ever heard of such a thing!!!

We had one poster saying the kid should have had the drumstick stuck up his nose into his brain which I thought was a little much.

Trying to name them all was very disturbing. We can't let ourselves turn into a mob as well. Those posts should be alerted on.

I wrote a long post about all this the other day giving my summary of the long video but was kind of sick to my stomach with everything by the end of the day. I am glad Nathan wants to meet with the kids and have discussions about race and cultural appropriation etc. Want more of that than everyone going to their sides and digging in.

The hatred from the two groups was vile and they only want one group to be at fault .

A bunch, at least 50, of undersupervised boys were at at fucking “March for Life” rally.

They wore fucking MAGA hats, so the adults allowed them to fucking politicize themselves. Earlier they had harassed a small group of women— or did you miss that?

They got yelled at by a vile, homophobic hate group of about 5 adult black men. They reacted. A couple tore their shirts off and they started chanting. Phillips came up drumming and singing between the two groups, the boys turned on him.

They are creepy little bigots. Deliberate bigots and misogynistic shitheads.

White youth always seem to get a pass around in the media. It’s more complicated that it seemed at first but it’s certainly not complicated .

a pass. Fuck both homophobic, racist groups. Their so called chaperons were a big part of it, and their fucking church school that breeds and teaches racism and homophobia while tolerating sexual abuse.

excuse their racist harassment and intimidation of Mr. Philips? Even an unaffiliated woman in the video scolds the students that they're acting like a mob.

That seems worthy of some attention as well.

What are you suggesting should happen? They get to tell “their side” Oberliner?