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The Views Sunny Hostin was completely appalled by the confrontation that took place between MAGA-hatted white teenagers from an exclusive all-boys private Catholic school and a Native American veteran, and dropped an epic rant on Tuesday condemning just about everyone involved.
As a practicing Catholic, I just kept on coming back to the same point, Hostin said. Where were the chaperones? Where were the adults? I thought it was such a teachable moment for everyone there.
Hostin said that the adults had let their teenagers down by letting things escalate.
Youve got the Black Israelites really taunting them, They should have been taught, what would Jesus do? Thats what Catholics are taught, she continued, as she described the chaos that ensued. A chaperone should have said, dont engage, dont engage, move along. Instead, the chaperones told them to start this chant.
Hostin slammed the school for bringing the students to a political event, suggesting it was a violation of federal tax laws, and lit into the student himself, Nick Sandmann, saying his claim that he was silently praying didnt pass muster. She also blasted his family for hiring a PR firm to defend their son rather than teaching him as an adult, maybe take some responsibility.'
No one is there, Hostin said sadly. I was disgusted by the entire thing.
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UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)last thing I would of been wearing in high school....political garb.
It's because its a much bigger thing - which is racism and they just need to be honest about it and then maybe we could get somewhere.
SWBTATTReg
(22,065 posts)late 1970s, all of the kids were dressed in the same uniforms going to school on a daily basis. Their parents literally struggled to make ends meet, so they could afford to send their kids there. Not for a political agenda but an educational one, being that some school districts were terrible (they're getting better nowadays).
Parents would go out, many times for fund raising events, sell cakes, etc. in order to simply afford to send their kids to the CATH. school. I sometimes brought stuff from them, but I always thought that people should instead put their efforts into supporting the local public schools in order to make them better. I've always advocated this, for it seems like a sizable portion of our population, when they get small children, move away from urban cities to the county, so they can attend 'better' schools. I saw this repeatedly, and was dismayed.
This was a big thing that happened in STLMO. When kids got old enough, wham! The family would just hightail out of the city to the county.
I was (and still am) furious that they abandoned the city instead of helping. Nowadays, it's much better. I guess because these people who moved to the county are finding out that things aren't all that great in the county, and if anything, the 'bad' stuff followed them out to the county too.