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Omaha Steve

(99,597 posts) Sat Jan 19, 2019, 11:05 PM Jan 2019

Omaha Tribe member in spotlight in face of taunting teens

Source: Omaha World Herald

By Alli Davis

An Omaha Tribe member was put in the national spotlight Saturday as video went viral of a high school student wearing a Make America Great Again hat standing and smirking in front of him and a crowd of boys yelling around him.

The Native American man, identified as Nathan Phillips, drummed on during the Indigenous Peoples March in the face of the students' behavior. Phillips is originally from Nebraska and an elder in the Omaha Tribe.

The incident happened Friday on the National Mall in Washington D.C.

In 2000, the Omaha World-Herald wrote a profile on Phillips, who at the time was conducting a vigil with his family for the entire month of November on the National Mall.

In this Friday, Jan. 18, 2019 image made from video provided by the Survival Media Agency, a teenager wearing a "Make America Great Again" hat, center left, stands in front of an elderly Native American singing and playing a drum in Washington. The Roman Catholic Diocese of Covington in Kentucky is looking into this and other videos that show youths, from the diocese's all-male Covington Catholic High School, mocking Native Americans at a rally in Washington.

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Omaha Tribe member in spotlight in face of taunting teens (Original Post) Omaha Steve Jan 2019 OP

Have they made AmeriKKKa great again yet? CountAllVotes Jan 2019 #1

That's going to be a mess for the school and diocese to deal with rpannier Jan 2019 #2

More than one girl wearing maga headbands. pazzyanne Jan 2019 #3

OMG, the sexes were mixing together? The Diocese will flip out! SunSeeker Jan 2019 #6

Not mixing together rpannier Jan 2019 #9

Racist punks, just like their president. lkinwi Jan 2019 #4

This video is an instructive follow up to the Gillette ad... SunSeeker Jan 2019 #5

so fucking disrespectful FirstLight Jan 2019 #7

The Arch-diocese, where the R.C. school is, will investigate expelling the students. 3Hotdogs Jan 2019 #8

Degenerate "republican family values" are a total disgrace Achilleaze Jan 2019 #10

Be a Colonel/Building Minds. Living Faith douglas9 Jan 2019 #11

All these little punks... Wuddles440 Jan 2019 #12

Oh, those Christian rascals. Praise Be! Firestorm49 Jan 2019 #13

Thanks for the article 7wo7rees Jan 2019 #14

CountAllVotes

(20,868 posts)

1. Have they made AmeriKKKa great again yet?

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Sat Jan 19, 2019, 11:07 PM

Jan 2019

Losers, all of them.

rpannier

(24,329 posts)

2. That's going to be a mess for the school and diocese to deal with

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Sat Jan 19, 2019, 11:15 PM

Jan 2019

It appears another school within the diocese will also have issues -- as there was at least one girl I noticed in the mob

pazzyanne

(6,549 posts)

3. More than one girl wearing maga headbands.

Reply to rpannier (Reply #2)

Sat Jan 19, 2019, 11:32 PM

Jan 2019

The harassment is not limited to just the boys. It is apparently pervasive in Covington Diocese schools. I do like the fact that former graduates of Covington Catholic High School are being very vocal in condemning the administration in this incident. We all can bear witness to what happens when an administration starts pushing their hidden agenda. All we have to do is watch tRump and his cabal in action to see what has happened to our country in just a few months. Sad and disgusting.

SunSeeker

(51,550 posts)

6. OMG, the sexes were mixing together? The Diocese will flip out!

Reply to rpannier (Reply #2)

Sat Jan 19, 2019, 11:46 PM

Jan 2019

rpannier

(24,329 posts)

9. Not mixing together

Reply to SunSeeker (Reply #6)

Sun Jan 20, 2019, 02:56 AM

Jan 2019

If they were in the same group as the boys then that would mean they came from another Catholic High School in the diocese. This would mean it is more than one school involved
Chances are, there were more than one high school from the diocese. Probably also, not all those boys are from one high school

lkinwi

(1,477 posts)

4. Racist punks, just like their president.

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Sat Jan 19, 2019, 11:34 PM

Jan 2019

SunSeeker

(51,550 posts)

5. This video is an instructive follow up to the Gillette ad...

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Sat Jan 19, 2019, 11:45 PM

Jan 2019

...in case anyone is still unclear as to what toxic masculinity is.

FirstLight

(13,360 posts)

7. so fucking disrespectful

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Sat Jan 19, 2019, 11:56 PM

Jan 2019

I would never treat Elders like that...makes me want to cry and vomit

3Hotdogs

(12,374 posts)

8. The Arch-diocese, where the R.C. school is, will investigate expelling the students.

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Sun Jan 20, 2019, 12:56 AM

Jan 2019

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)

10. Degenerate "republican family values" are a total disgrace

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Sun Jan 20, 2019, 07:00 AM

Jan 2019

MAGA republicans need to try and act like Americans for a change. Holy cripes they are sick and sad.

douglas9

(4,358 posts)

11. Be a Colonel/Building Minds. Living Faith

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Sun Jan 20, 2019, 07:36 AM

Jan 2019

https://www.covcath.org/admissions/tuition-assistance

Wuddles440

(1,121 posts)

12. All these little punks...

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Sun Jan 20, 2019, 11:45 AM

Jan 2019

need to be identified and ostracized from society along with their bigoted/racist parents and school administrators. What's even more galling is these turds were in D.C. for the March for Fetuses and the "dignity of life." What a hypocritical pile of shit! The time for decency and civility is over. This vermin needs to be constantly harassed in their schools, places of employment, places of worship, and homes. They only become more emboldened by apathy and timid responses. Fuck this scum!

Firestorm49

(4,032 posts)

13. Oh, those Christian rascals. Praise Be!

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Sun Jan 20, 2019, 01:20 PM

Jan 2019

A lot of good all that Christian stuff is doing on them, you know, kindness, forgiveness, empathy toward your fellow man. Either the parents should demand their hefty tuition back (they are probably from the same mindset) or the school should administrators should be fired. They have obviously failed the Lord in their less than adequate teachings of the Bible. They just didn’t get the MAIN point of Catholicism across to these rich, white ass punks. But, money doesn’t talk, it screams. Praise the Lord and pass the donation plate.

7wo7rees

(5,128 posts)

14. Thanks for the article

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Sun Jan 20, 2019, 01:45 PM

Jan 2019

I felt better when the article spent 80% on Phillips and his struggle, and not on the miscreant white shitheads.

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