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From the article:
But the mainstream medias coverage of the story failed to report the reason that a crowd of Indigenous people was on the National Mall in the first place namely, that Friday was the one of the first national marches of Indigenous people since the 1970s....
By Saturday, the mainstream media picked up the story and were reporting on it as a disturbing example of a mob of young kids with the confidence to taunt Indigenous people. So how and why has the story shifted since then?
FIRST, Sandmanns parents hired a well-connected public-relations firm in Louisville, which released a statement by Sandmann shifting blame for the confrontation to a small crowd of Black Israelites who were also near the Lincoln Memorial. This led the media to revise the narrative, using other video footage.
To read more:
https://socialistworker.org/2019/01/23/the-ugly-facts-about-the-maga-hat-kids
The fact is, Trump is the President in large part because racists voted for him.
Rorey
(8,445 posts)This is the state of our country. So many parents don't have a decent moral core and they raise their kids to be entitled punks. A decent parent would have told their kid to apologize for being disrespectful. Story over.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)And where were the adult chaperones? Were the chaperones also wearing MAGA hats?
Rorey
(8,445 posts)hunter
(38,353 posts)You have to remember why these racist, misogynist dick-waving morons were there in the first place.
Hauling a busload of teenage boys 500 miles to participate in an anti-abortion march isn't something reasonable adults do.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)The adults were even worse.
msongs
(67,502 posts)ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)niyad
(113,963 posts)at the annual anti-choice "march for life". racist, sexist, entitled little white pricks, with smug smiles of superiority. ( and let us not forget the comment of one about rape)
BamaRefugee
(3,488 posts)the Covington Diocese paid out $120 MILLION in sexual abuse settlements.
Now I get it.
niyad
(113,963 posts)Were you referring to the "rape is not rape" comment?
niyad
(113,963 posts)guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Brett Kavanaugh and Trump are the tip of that ice burg.