![]() ![]() One video I watched from earlier in the day shows the Black Israelites haranguing the Native American marchers for “worshipping totem poles” and in other ways needing to repent to God. While these two very different things were happening, there was a third much smaller group of so-called “Black Israelites” – maybe half a dozen men – who had been there seemingly for most of the day haranguing both groups. They had apparently congregated at the Memorial as a staging point to wait for buses to leave. They were in town for the March for Life, an anti-abortion march. Later a group of teenage boys from a Catholic High School in Covington, Kentucky were also there. That’s not what happened.Ī Native American group (The Indigenous People’s March) had marched to the Memorial earlier in the day. So let me give you my impression of what happened as well as links to videos and accounts which can help you come to your own conclusions.įirst, the initial videos could easily give the impression that Phillips (the man with the drum) was in the midst of marching in a protest when he was surrounded by a crowd of white teenagers in MAGA hats. Saturday night and into Sunday I watched numerous different videos of the encounter itself and what led up to it. With that said, though, when you add all the context I’m not sure it’s all that different from what it looked like on the first go, despite some now saying the new evidence and new videos change everything. ![]() The whole story is a good example of how we can react quickly to a zoomed in (both literally and metaphorically) video and miss a lot of what led up to it, as well as some key context. ![]() Watching the unfolding reaction and re-reactions to the video of the confrontation between Native American activist and elder Nathan Phillips and a crowd of high school students from Covington, Kentucky on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. Making Sense of the Phillips-Sandmann Viral Video ![]()
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