A group of high school boys on a field trip to Washington DC waited, minding their own business as they milled on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial for the bus to take them home. Some of the boys wore MAGA hats they bought from a street vendor; presumably as souvenirs from their trip to DC. The boys are accosted by two groups of grownups who hurled abuse at them. The boys responded in belting out a school chant to drown out the abuse coming from the Black Hebrew Israelites. The boys laughed off the taunts from the Native protesters who invaded their space. One of the boys stood calmly while an old man beat a drum in his face and sang something unintelligible.
Irresponsible news organizations pushed out a scurrilous narrative that it was the boys who accosted the Black Hebrew Israelites and the Native protesters. In doing so they incited a frenzy of insane hatred and death threats against the boys, one boy (Nicholas Sandmann) in particular. The truth came out in short order. The boys did nothing wrong. Among other things, the elderly Native man is exposed as a liar. Defamation lawsuits are pending against those behind the libelous narrative. I hope the people who rushed to judgment--for no other reason than it is white high school boys who were falsely accused of wrongdoing--will stop and think about their racist assumptions.
Irresponsible news organizations pushed out a scurrilous narrative that it was the boys who accosted the Black Hebrew Israelites and the Native protesters. In doing so they incited a frenzy of insane hatred and death threats against the boys, one boy (Nicholas Sandmann) in particular. The truth came out in short order. The boys did nothing wrong. Among other things, the elderly Native man is exposed as a liar. Defamation lawsuits are pending against those behind the libelous narrative. I hope the people who rushed to judgment--for no other reason than it is white high school boys who were falsely accused of wrongdoing--will stop and think about their racist assumptions.
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