(Zero Hedge) The Kentucky teenager at the center of a media circus has spoken out after receiving death threats over a widely misreported incident with an Obama tribal elder on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C.
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by Staff Writer, January 21st, 2019
“I am the student in the video who was confronted by the Native American protester,” reads a statement by Nick Sandmann, the Covington Catholic High School junior who was initially accused of taunting the drum-beating activist, prominent activist Nathan Phillips, only to be vindicated after the full video revealed that the Native American troupe approached the teens amid a tense standoff with a group known as the Black Hebrew Israelites, while the teens peacefully held their ground.
Sandmann has become the face of the apparent confrontation, smiling silently only a foot or two from the face of Nathan Phillips, a Vietnam War veteran and prominent activist for indigenous people’s causes.
Critics have characterized the young man as smirking and trying to stare down Phillips. But other, longer videos have complicated the narrative, suggesting that there was jeering by a separate group of people before the incident recorded on the most widely circulated video. –NBC News
https://twitter.com/matthewschmitz/status/1086994001801158656
Sandmann says that when his group arrived at the Lincoln Memorial, he heard “four African American protesters” who were hurling “derogatory insults at our school group,” including “racists,” “bigots,” “white crackers,” “faggots,” and “incest kids.”
“They also taunted an African American student from my school by telling him that we would ‘harvest his organs,” Sandmann wrote, adding “I have no idea what that insult means, but it was startling to hear.”
The teen added that he obtained a teacher’s permission to lead the group of students in school spirit chants “to counter the hateful things that were being shouted at our group,” after which the Native American protesters approached.
“I never interacted with this protestor. I did not speak to him. I did not make any hand gestures or other aggressive moves. To be honest, I was startled and confused as to why he had approached me. We had already been yelled at by another group of protestors, and when the second group approached I was worried that a situation was getting out of control where adults were attempting to provoke teenagers,” says Sandmann.
“I believed that by remaining motionless and calm, I was helping to diffuse the situation,” he said. “I realized everyone had cameras and that perhaps a group of adults was trying to provoke a group of teenagers into a larger conflict. I said a silent prayer that the situation would not get out of hand.”
Sandmann says he has received death threats over the incident.
“I have received physical and death threats via social media, as well as hateful insults. One person threatened to harm me at school, and one person claims to live in my neighborhood. My parents are receiving death and professional threats because of the social media mob that has formed over this issue.”
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Sandmann and his family deactivated their social media accounts Saturday as the incident went viral – with many prominent liberals calling for his doxxing or worse.
Ps. The reply from the school was pathetic and impotent. Name these kids. I want NAMES. Shame them. If you think these fuckers wouldn’t dox you in a heartbeat, think again. https://t.co/IS80wiaQ7v
— Kathy Griffin (@kathygriffin) January 20, 2019
https://twitter.com/Malamaca1599/status/1087144192160149504
Some media personalities such as CNN‘s Ana Navarro have yet to delete wildly inaccurate tweets with the initial mischaracterization of the incident. “Must Watch: Native-American elder taunted by racist MAGA-hat wearing teens,” tweeted Navarro.
Must Watch: Native-American elder taunted by racist MAGA-hat wearing teens, speaks and cries for America, the country he defended and sacrificed and wore the uniform for. It is people like Nathan Phillips who make America great.
Thank you for your dignity, sir. https://t.co/Kae7lgAFrk— Ana Navarro-Cárdenas (@ananavarro) January 19, 2019
Senator Elizabeth Warren has yet to delete her similar tweet claiming Phillips “endured hateful taunts.”
Omaha elder and Vietnam War veteran Nathan Phillips endured hateful taunts with dignity and strength, then urged us all to do better.
Listen to his words: https://t.co/ymHRxVA91K
— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) January 20, 2019
Alyssa Milano continues to virtue signal in this still-active tweet:
This is Trump’s America. And it brought me to tears. What are we teaching our young people? Why is this ok? How is this ok? Please help me understand. Because right now I feel like my heart is living outside of my body. https://t.co/QMxMDxNjvr
— Alyssa Milano (@Alyssa_Milano) January 19, 2019
This NYT editor says the “best commentary” she’s read is a collection of racist lies about a teenager her paper deeply wronged. I think we may have identified a problem at the NYT. https://t.co/ItD3Pu0Ed5
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) January 21, 2019
The National Review – in a now-deleted article from deputy managing editor Nicholas Frankovich titled “The Covington Students Might as Well Have Just Spit on the Cross,” wrote that the teenagers mocked a “frail-looking older man” and “gloat in their momentary role as Roman soldiers to his Christ.”
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Except that’s not what happened at all.
.@reason: “Video footage strongly contradicts Native American veteran Nathan Phillips' claim that Covington Catholic High School boys harassed him. The media got this one completely wrong,” writes @robbysoave https://t.co/9Ki4iiTkQ9
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) January 20, 2019
A LOT of journalists need to quickly apologize for their roles in spreading false information in recent days, be it the evidence-free BuzzFeed false report/wild speculation about Trump or leading a misinformed outrage mob against children, or both.
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) January 21, 2019
Think of how the media had publicly available video evidence… and still screwed this up.
Then imagine what they're doing with "confideniltial sources" https://t.co/IlSC6H0CSe
— Techno Fog (@Techno_Fog) January 21, 2019
“I am mortified that so many people have come to believe something that did not happen — that students from my school were chanting or acting in a racist fashion toward African Americans or Native Americans,” said Sandmann.
“I did not do that, do not have hateful feelings in my heart, and did not witness any of my classmates doing that,” he said, adding: “I have read that Mr. Phillips is a veteran of the United States Marines. I thank him for his service and am grateful to anyone who puts on the uniform to defend our nation. If anyone has earned the right to speak freely, it is a U.S. Marine veteran.”
Covington Catholic High School and the Catholic Diocese of Covington, Near Cincinnati, said in a joint statement “The matter is being investigated and we will take appropriate action, up to and including expulsion.”
The diocese and the school said the students were in Washington to attend the March for Life, a major anti-abortion rally, and they lamented that the incident had “tainted the entire witness of the March for Life.”
They said they extended “our most sincere apologies to all those who attended the March and all those who support the pro-life movement.” –NBC New
https://twitter.com/thecjpearson/status/1087170133418754052
On Sunday Philips told MSNBC‘s Joy Reid that he was trying to diffuse the situation between the teens and the Black Hebrew Israelites, described by NBC as “a loose association mostly of people of black African ancestry who say they are descendants of the biblical Israelites.”
Philips says the boys in the MAGA hats began chanting “build the wall,” which cannot be heard on the video.
Meanwhile, some have called into question the Native American activist’s claim to be a Vietnam Veteran.
https://twitter.com/CassandraRules/status/1087245901456916480
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In the wake of the MSM’s kneejerk reaction, several prominent Twitter conservatives have come together to offer legal help to the Covington High teens.
https://twitter.com/ali/status/1087146040866746368
When the media launches a fake news smear campaign against you but you're just trying to MAGA. pic.twitter.com/ZaP78ytmnH
— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) January 21, 2019
https://youtu.be/_wdZNVqKAgo
Source – The Free Thought Project
MSM Recklessly Distorts Video of Teen in MAGA Hat and Native Man All to Manipulate You
The real story behind the viral confrontation of the MAGA hat-wearing teen and the Native American USMC veteran is far less divisive than what you’re being told.
by Matt Agorist, January 21st, 2019
One of the most viral stories on the internet right now is a video of a teenage kid from Kentucky staring into the eyes of a Native American Marine Corps veteran as he played his drum and chanted. A brief clip of an hour and a half long video has been picked up by mainstream media across the country and paraded around as evidence of ‘disgusting hatred and racism.’ But is that what it really shows?
Over the weekend, Congresswoman Deb Haaland (D-N.M.) ― one of the first Native American women to be elected to Congress ― said the students displayed “blatant hate” against the veteran, Nathan Phillips.
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“This Veteran put his life on the line for our country,” Haaland said on Twitter. “The students’ display of blatant hate, disrespect, and intolerance is a signal of how common decency has decayed under this administration. Heartbreaking.”
Headlines across the web painted this Kentucky teenager as a harassing little Hitler, as calls for him and his family to be killed flooded social media. It was a full on digital lynching.
Certainly, if this kid from Kentucky hurled racist insults, attacked, threatened, or attempted to hurt Phillips in any way, he should be exposed for it. But when examining the entire video, we simply do not see any evidence of this.
I will be the first to admit just how creepy the video of Nick Sandmann, the Covington student in the middle of the controversy, staring into the face of Phillips is. But is this racist and hateful?
Because of this media coverage, this kid has been called the product of a “hate factory” compared to a school shooter, segregation-era racist, and member of the Ku Klux Klan. But does staring into the face of a Native American rise to such claims?
The short clip published to the majority of the mainstream media websites as seen above does not show what happened before the two folks got into a staring match.
The Free Thought Project reviewed a much longer video of this situation and it paints a far different picture than what the media is telling you.
Prior to the children interacting with the Native American protests, they were subject to disgusting racist threats from a small group of Black Hebrew Israelites near the Lincoln Memorial.
The BHI was seen on camera hurling insults at the children, calling them crackers, faggots, pedophiles, and peckerwoods. They are even seen at the 37 minute mark insulting the Native Americans for talking to these kids by calling them “Uncle Tom(ahawks.)”
At one point in the video, the BHI protesters tell a black student in the group that his white friends are going to “harvest his organs.” The hateful slurs came to a head when the BHI protesters—who are outspoken for their anti-LGBTQ stance—yelled that “you give faggots rights.”
This prompted the high school kids to counter their hate with “boos,” clearly showing that they stand up for the rights of the LGBTQ community.
At no time during the video did I see any of the students hurling racial slurs or acting in a similar manner to the BHI protesters.
These kids were at the Lincoln Memorial to be picked up by their bus and as they waited, they were verbally accosted by a hateful group of people. They are children who have never experienced anything like this and, according to Sandmann, they asked their chaperone to engage in a school chant to counter that hate. After getting permission, that’s what they did.
As the students chanted a G-rated school cheer, the Native American group was also drumming and chanting. At one point, the two groups would be right next to each other and the students would begin chanting along with the drums. Whether this was an act of mockery was not clear, but for a moment, it appeared to be an act of solidarity, aside from a few of the kids laughing. Again, these are kids who have found themselves in a crazy situation. It appears they are just trying to have fun.
It was at this point that Phillips approached the group, was let in to the circle and then singled out Sandmann. While the media made it look like Sandmann approached Phillips, this was not the case and it is evident from the video. In a statement released through his school, Sandmann explained what happened.
The protestor everyone has seen in the video began playing his drum as he waded into the crowd, which parted for him. I did not see anyone try to block his path. He locked eyes with me and approached me, coming within inches of my face. He played his drum the entire time he was in my face.
I never interacted with this protestor. I did not speak to him. I did not make any hand gestures or other aggressive moves. To be honest, I was startled and confused as to why he had approached me.
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I believed that by remaining motionless and calm, I was helping to diffuse the situation. I realized everyone had cameras and that perhaps a group of adults was trying to provoke a group of teenagers into a larger conflict. I said a silent prayer that the situation would not get out of hand.
When watching the entire video, it is clear that this kid never approached Phillips, never said anything derogatory, never did so much as raise a finger, but for standing there as Phillips beat his drum, he is painted as a product of a “hate factory” and a member of the Ku Klux Klan by the media.
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As stated above, it was creepy to just stare at Phillips as he beat his drum, but remember, this is a kid who has never been in any situation remotely close to what he’s seeing. He was confused and afraid of what was going on. So, why would the media ignore the actual threats of violence and hateful rhetoric and focus on some socially awkward kid in the wrong place at the wrong time?
The easy answer to that question is because this kid had on a MAGA hat which made targeting him acceptable and fair game. Because Trump is an easy target for all media and essentially any insult or threat against him is acceptable, by proxy, this kid was also fair game. Had he worn a Clinton hat, this story would’ve likely played out differently.
I’ll be the first to admit that when I read the headlines of this kid and saw him in a MAGA hat, all the stereotypes of belligerent Trump supporters began to fill my head. But to honestly assess the situation, we had to dig deeper.
What this case illustrates is the media’s power to manipulate outrage among those who blindly consume it. By failing to tell the entire story, preconceived stereotypes are used to stoke a divisive picture that is destined to get clicks and views.
Society’s own biases are being used against us to sell false hatred and it’s making these companies billions of dollars.
Just as the Gillette commercial was used to provoke outrage on the right, this kid in a MAGA hat was used to stoke outrage on the left. The inevitable results of such divisive tactics are a less cohesive society and a windfall of profits for those who keep us fighting.
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Aside from making these information controllers billions of dollars, the constant bombardment of divisive horse shit is contributing to the rise of actual racism.
Racism in this country is trying to die, but the media is fervently attempting to keep it alive.
Neo-Nazis and white supremacists have been fading away for years—because their ideas are absurd, ignorant, and reflect society’s worst. Their ranks were diminishing and their tactics and mission of supremacy based on skin color had become laughable. However, in the past few years, anti-white rhetoric—which is now somehow considered acceptable—has fueled hatred and served as a catalyst in the growing movement of white nationalist socialists.
By concentrating on skin color — instead of a person’s character — a massive “anti-white” movement was born and subsequently pushed through the mainstream media, and thus the dying white supremacy movement was given new life.
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Hate groups in the US grew from 784 in 2014 to 892 in 2015, a 14 percent increase, according to 2016 data by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).
From 2014 to 2015, the number of active Klu Klux Klan chapters in the United States grew from 72 to 190, a massive increase for a group so closely associated with hatred.
The overwhelming majority of people simply want to get along and these battles covered or contrived by the mainstream media of white nationalists and leftist radicals brawling in the streets are highly uncommon. They are so uncommon, in fact, that as this story illustrates, they need to be manufactured. Real hate groups represent a very small minority of society, yet the media devotes hundreds of hours of coverage to them, to get clicks and to keep you divided.
Only through seeking a lesser ignorance and questioning everything we see and read will we remain vigilant in this information war. Please share this story with your friends and family in hopes to allow them to see the full picture, not just what their TVs need them to see.
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Good analysis Matt. Nice coverage.