Posted on 01/21/2019 5:38:06 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
In the hours and days since those first snapshots of the encounter made the rounds, however, it has become crystal clear that the original narrative was hugely misleading. Additional videos from different angles began to emerge, proving that the students did not swarm or try to block the drum-toting man; rather, he proactively approached them. We also learned that a small group of African-American men were hurling racial and homophobic insults at the boys, singling out the small number of non-white students in the group for especially grotesque abuse (including creepily telling a black student that his classmates would harvest his organs). The drum-beating Native American 'victim' was accompanied by someone who screamed at the students to "go back to Europe," profanely hectoring them over 'stolen' land. And the drummer himself acted strangely, choosing to approach one of the students wearing a red hat to play his instrument within inches of the boy's face.
Having viewed more videos and read statements published by several of the students (who have become Internet hate objects, some getting harassed and doxxed -- including a number who weren't even in DC for the incident -- by unhinged strangers), it is now beyond dispute that the first impression of his controversy was wrong. If anything, most of the teenagers behaved better than any of the adults who tried to provoke them...
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
The Native American Vet and his freak show had their phones and cameras out looking around for a Victim/Victims
The entire narrative was a lie from the start.
And the black boys apparently got away Scott free, no media interview or confrontations. The ones who seem.to have instigated things seemingly vanished.
Not boys. Full-grown men, as far as I know.
Here is where the Mexican constitution got it right
One thing the Mexican Constitution has that we should consider doing.Mexico has no hyphenated Mexicans. They prohibit any reference to race when they conduct a census or issue any means of identification, Where a physical description is needed skin color yes but not by race or nationality or tribal background.By doing this Mexico has avoided “balkanizing”, creating fractional disputes in areas where a given group in one of its states is a majority or a minority.
Another thing to consider;
Mexican constitution states one must be a citizen to own land and they are very restrictive about granting citizenship.Because of that a US citizen cannot have title in their name to any property in Mexico. And until that is changed the US should seriously consider making that reciprocal.prohibiting citizen of Mexico or countries with similar restrictions from doing so. If we did this any entry from Mexico would value on becoming a citizen.
I think you’re probably safe to trust anything you hear from an old meth head banging on his bongo.
The following article, written by Matt Kelley, originally ran in the Omaha World-Herald on Nov. 26, 2000.
Washington, D.C. — For 26 days now, Nebraska native Nathan Phillips has conducted a personal, somewhat eccentric vigil on Washington’s National Mall.
Joined by his companion, Shoshana Konstant, and their two small children, Phillips plans to spend all of November praying for his fellow American Indians from one of three tepee lodges he’s set up on an expanse of grass between the Washington Monument and the White House.
A member of Nebraska’s Omaha Tribe, Phillips says he doesn’t consider himself a protester but rather a man answering a call to honor his people and his Creator.
“I would call myself a spiritual runner, “ he said.
Born and raised in Lincoln, Phillips conducted his first monthlong prayer session last year in conjunction with Native American Heritage Month. Joined by Konstant and their kids — 3-year-old Zakiah and 14-month-old Alethea — Phillips spends his time praying and tending to a fire inside a canvas lodge that for weeks has served as the family’s primary home.
Those searching for a neatly packaged social studies lesson, however, won’t find it at Nathan Phillips’ prayer lodge.
While friendly enough, Phillips directs most onlookers away from the lodge where he lives, sleeps and prays. He asks them instead to peek inside two other lodges set up nearby — one for storage and one for display. And he almost always demurs when tourists ask him to pose for photos.
“They want us to be happy Indians for them, “ he said. “They don’t want to hear about the struggle.”
That struggle, as Phillips explains it, involves centuries of religious, economic and cultural oppression of American Indians.
More personally, he says, it involves his own fight against alcoholism, a childhood floating through foster homes in Nebraska, and an early adulthood spent first in the Marine Corps and later being thrown in and out of jail.
Now 45, Phillips has been sober for 16 years. He met Shoshana Konstant, a former middle school teacher, in 1990. For several years, the couple bounced around the country agitating on behalf of American Indians being displaced from their homelands.
They settled in Washington, D.C., about six years ago, Phillips said, after their truck broke down and caught fire during a demonstration in front of the White House.
When asked about his reasons for living for 30 days on the Mall, Phillips doesn’t offer an easy or quick answer.
“It’s just everything, “ he says, sitting beside the fire. “We’ve got so many issues in Indian country.”
After struggling for a few more minutes, Phillips expands his cause to include suffering children in Africa and the soldiers left missing in action in Vietnam.
“This is not just for the Indian people, “ he says. “It’s for everybody.”
In fact, Phillips and Konstant seem better able to live their cause than to explain it.
Their lodge flaps and creaks in the cold autumn wind. At the center, the well-fed fire burns from a square, iron platform required by the National Park Service.
A buffalo skull and small bundles of sage, cedar and sweet grass form the basis of a ceremonial altar at one side of the lodge.
Sleeping pads line two sides of the fire. Everywhere there is evidence of everyday life: blankets, pillows, children’s toys, a box of doughnuts, a cell phone.
Outside, a sizable pile of firewood props up a black-and-white POW-MIA flag and a banner of the Omaha Tribe in Iowa and Nebraska.
Phillips’ dog, Jake, watches over the encampment, sounding an alarm when strangers approach.
For now, the lodge serves also as the family’s home between homes.
For years, Phillips and Konstant lived out of a run-down house in Washington frequented by itinerant hippies. More recently, they moved into an unfinished basement rented out by a storeowner in Washington’s Mount Pleasant neighborhood.
This month, they’re moving into a better place, Phillips said, with a reliable landlord, a lease and a roof that doesn’t leak.
Back in Nebraska, Omaha tribal Chairman Elmer Blackbird did not return calls seeking comment about Phillips’ vigil.
Privately, another tribal leader said Phillips is regarded back in Nebraska as a well-intentioned brother struggling to cope with a troubled childhood. The leader said the Omaha Tribe generally avoids the type of activism Phillips prefers.
“He’s just trying to find his way, “ the leader said. “Let him find it.”
In Washington, Phillips’ high-profile patch of real estate attracts the attention of all sorts of people.
Floyd Wilson, an area resident who works for the federal government, stopped by one cold morning recently to offer Phillips coffee and a few stacks of cedar firewood. Wilson said he wanted to show his support after sitting and listening to Phillips.
“I’m bringing him coffee, “ Wilson grinned. “I’m bringing him love. I’m bringing him peace, happiness and goodness.”
At other times, tourists stop by for snapshots. Homeless people stop by for shelter. Boorish people stop by to offer uninvited advice and to reinforce their own prejudices about American Indians.
The Washington Post even stopped by, publishing a lengthy essay last week connecting Phillips’ vigil to a well-mannered protest of Thanksgiving.
Although Phillips did begin his annual fast on Thanksgiving Day, he said the holiday actually has little to do with his presence on the Mall.
Officially, Phillips says, the vigil is to benefit his organization: the Native Youth Alliance.
Kneeling on one knee and one foot, Phillips talks excitedly about creating “culturally appropriate” homes for Indian children who have been separated from their parents. The idea, he says, is to keep kids connected to their culture.
It’s a personal issue for Phillips, who was forcibly removed from his parents’ home at age 5.
Later, Phillips says he also wants to found Head Start for American Indian children, along with a community center and health-care facility.
Phillips’ stated goals range from the practical to the dreamy.
While Konstant soon will start work at a local Head Start, Phillips concedes that his organization remains far away from its other goals. He has no office, no funding, no grants and no one working for him.
And at times, Phillips seems as much caught up in his own spiritual journey as the practical aspects of running an organization.
A construction worker by trade, Phillips works odd jobs when he can find them. But he says his personal dreams usually take precedence over the American dream.
“Why can’t I just be an American, “ he asks himself aloud, “get my contracting license, get a Range Rover and buy a $20,000 bass boat?”
Then, he tries to answer his own question.
“There is a purpose for all this, “ he continues, gesturing around the lodge. “I just don’t know it yet.”
There are a whole lot of people out there who no other ambition but to seek attention. Even bad attention is still attention.
The sad part is that he is 64 and he is pretty well at the end of his chances to enjoy life. He has finally hit the gold mine of fame but he will be completely exposed as a liar and a weakling.
But he’ll have attention, at least for a while.
Nathan Phillips needs the prayers from those concerned about his soul.
His resume has speed bumps and warts....plenty of road rash.
The smiling teenager from Covington, Kentucky has been abused by Mr. Phillips. That is shameful.
I can’t believe Hannity was just on saying Nathan Phillips was just trying to help the boys from that one racist group taunting them. Guess he didn’t watch more of the videos himself. It is CLEAR Nathan is trying to intimidate the boy.
That NATHAN went up to the boy and beat a drums inches from the boys face. Breathing into the boys face. Beating his drum inches from his face. What part of that is ‘helping’ the boys? That is trying to force a violent reaction. The boy is to be commended for his restraint. And the ‘grown up’ should be called out by everyone. EVEN HANNITY.
Only a fool would believe Nathan was trying to help these boys.
The article didn’t say how he managed to support himself. Indeed, how does he??
Alright, I read the article from the Omaha World Herald. It seems as though Phillips had a rough childhood being put in foster homes beginning at the age of five. A one time alcoholic, or perhaps still one...he has had to battle demons that taunt him.
I don’t know if I would call him a charlatan, but he seems to be one of those creatures that somehow show up at every protest. A sort of Georgeous George of the Protest Beat...banging the drum. I don’t pity him, nor feel sorry for him, but hope that one days he finds his peace with himself.
Okay...So here is my question...So what if the HIgh School Students actually stood there and clapped and smirked? So what if they did the absolute worst that the “fact free’ pundits suggest? That’s my question...so what? Where’s the beef?
Move over Rorschach and TAT - we have here a powerful new projective psychological test in this simple picture of a teen in a MAGA hat smiling benignly at an old Indian (yeah, I know it should be “native American”, so be offended) - you want to see a wiseass over-privileged whitey taunting a poor helpless old man, so you go off on an outraged tantrum about the smirking, racist, insensitive rich guy trying to hurt another poor minority, needing to be doxed, reeducated, or even killed - but it turns out it was all in your head - looks like you’re the one who needs the intervention......
Yet this is the headline Bing links to at 6:35 PM PST on Monday 1/21/19:
https://www.theroot.com/the-next-generation-of-maga-hat-wearing-bigots-besiege-1831894971
I hope these families sue everyone they can think of.
This was pumped up as we have a Catholic scotus pick coming.
These folks are also displaying their insanity.
Senior Review Editor at gizmodo
How many swirlies did he take as a kid?
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Alex Cranz Alex Cranz @alexhcranz From elementary school through college I went to school with sheltered upper middle class white boys who could DEVASTATE with a smirk. A facial guesture that weaponized their privilege. Infuriatingly you can’t fight that fricking smirk with a punch or words.
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Alex Cranz Alex Cranz @alexhcranz We saw that as Trump smirked his way through the election and we’ll see it at that boy from Kentucky’s friends, family, and school protect him.
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Alex Cranz Alex Cranz @alexhcranz I fricking hate that smirk. It says “I’m richer, I’m white, and I’m a guy. My existence trumps your experience.” Few things make me as angry as that smirk. I’ve learned the best recourse is to ignore those fricks, and keep dismantling their power structures. #frickEmThroughProgress
someone has massive inferiority complex
Boycott these liars (and anyone who dose business with them)
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Looking like Nick Sandman & Covington Catholic students were treated unfairly with early judgements proving out to be false - smeared by media. Not good, but making big comeback! “New footage shows that media was wrong about teen’s encounter with Native American” @TuckerCarlson
By all accounts, the kids were told to assemble at XYZ to meet their bus. The rest of the story is a bunch of bad dudes and slimey media preying on the students.
Shame on the media.
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