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summary of the events leading to the stare down. (Original Post) Demovictory9 Jan 2019 OP
Please quote as much as you can. Pay wall. Shrike47 Jan 2019 #1
here Demovictory9 Jan 2019 #3
The Black Israelite group was the most vile out of everyone oberliner Jan 2019 #9
I took a guess and was right. uppityperson Jan 2019 #11
we need to get away from twitter-mob mentality Hermit-The-Prog Jan 2019 #2
This message was self-deleted by its author elocs Jan 2019 #4
Those little racist turds will learn a valuable life lesson workinclasszero Jan 2019 #5
I count at least 4 "boys" in black face MagickMuffin Jan 2019 #7
And the mob is screaming at that poor black kid workinclasszero Jan 2019 #8
I doubt they'll learn a damn thing. cwydro Jan 2019 #10
"...Asked why he felt the need to walk into the group of students, mia Jan 2019 #6

Demovictory9

(32,320 posts)
3. here
Mon Jan 21, 2019, 03:13 PM
Jan 2019
1. The Hebrew Israelites and Native americans were arguing.
2. While they argued, the covington students laughed and mocked
3. The Hebrew Israelites turned on the students with insults



“Tell them to come over in the lion’s den instead of mocking from over there,” Banyamyan can be heard saying in the video. “Y’all dirty ass little crackers, your day is coming.”

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Phillips said he and his fellow Native American activists also had issues with the students throughout the day.

“Before they got centered on the black Israelites, they would walk through and say things to each other, like, ‘Oh, the Indians in my state are drunks or thieves,’” the 64-year-old said.

Phillips said he heard students shout, “Go back to Africa!”

Sandmann said in his statement that he “did not witness or hear any students chant ‘build that wall’ or anything hateful or racist at any time. Assertions to the contrary are simply false.”

He said he and his classmates were shouting cheers they knew from school, with permission from their chaperones, “to drown out the hateful comments that were being shouted at us by the protesters.”

By 5 p.m., the light was fading on the Mall and both marches had mostly petered out. A group of around 100 Covington students had gathered on the stairs of the Lincoln Memorial, where they had been told to meet before catching their buses home.

The Hebrew Israelites were also still there, and still insulting the students.

“You all are a bunch of Donald Trump incest babies,” Israel said to them, according to the video, before asking if there were any black students among them.

When a black Covington student came forward, Israel called him “Kanye West” and the n-word, the footage shows. He tells the teen his friends will one day harvest his organs, an apparent reference to the racially fraught movie “Get Out.”

At that point, the students began chanting, jumping and shouting. The songs culminated in one student stripping off his shirt and shouting as others cheered.

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By 5 p.m., the light was fading on the Mall and both marches had mostly petered out. A group of around 100 Covington students had gathered on the stairs of the Lincoln Memorial, where they had been told to meet before catching their buses home.

The Hebrew Israelites were also still there, and still insulting the students.

“You all are a bunch of Donald Trump incest babies,” Israel said to them, according to the video, before asking if there were any black students among them.

When a black Covington student came forward, Israel called him “Kanye West” and the n-word, the footage shows. He tells the teen his friends will one day harvest his organs, an apparent reference to the racially fraught movie “Get Out.”

At that point, the students began chanting, jumping and shouting. The songs culminated in one student stripping off his shirt and shouting as others cheered.

Hermit-The-Prog

(33,021 posts)
2. we need to get away from twitter-mob mentality
Mon Jan 21, 2019, 03:05 PM
Jan 2019

From the article:


The incident, and the finger-pointing that followed, seemed to capture the worst of America at a moment of extreme political polarization, as discourse once again gave way to division, and people drew conclusions on social media before all the facts were known.

Response to Demovictory9 (Original post)

 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
5. Those little racist turds will learn a valuable life lesson
Mon Jan 21, 2019, 03:46 PM
Jan 2019

Their school should be shut down because it is an engine of hate.


See this:

 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
8. And the mob is screaming at that poor black kid
Tue Jan 22, 2019, 10:16 AM
Jan 2019

The red hat/MAGA is the modern equivalent of the KKK hood which the Covington Catholic High School mob so proudly wore when ganging up on an old American vet.

 

cwydro

(51,308 posts)
10. I doubt they'll learn a damn thing.
Tue Jan 22, 2019, 10:39 AM
Jan 2019

They’re being exonerated now.

It’s all on the four scary black men.

mia

(8,356 posts)
6. "...Asked why he felt the need to walk into the group of students,
Mon Jan 21, 2019, 03:47 PM
Jan 2019
Phillips said he was trying to reach the top of the memorial, where friends were standing. 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 should I 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.”


...Phillips said he blamed both the students and the Hebrew Israelites for what happened.

“If it wasn’t for those Israelites being there in the first place, this wouldn’t have happened,” he said. “And if it wasn’t for the lack of responsibility from school chaperones, this wouldn’t have happened either.”


https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/picture-of-the-conflict-on-the-mall-comes-into-clearer-focus/2019/01/20/c078f092-1ceb-11e9-9145-3f74070bbdb9_story.html?utm_term=.e44e9a53d5b9
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