Isn't calumny toward teens a form of child abuse? Apologies are owed to Covington HS students from the March for Life, the Diocese of Covington, and Covington HS?
- "this past weekend, a video went viral showing a group of boys, many of them in MAGA hats, surrounding an older Native American man who was banging a drum.....The man, Nathan Phillips, told two different versions of what happened. He told The Washington Post that he was singing a traditional song when the teenagers swarmed around him, some chanting, 'Build that wall, build that wall.' He decided the right thing to do was to get away....He told The Detroit Free Press that the incident started when the boys started attacking four African-Americans. So he decided to intervene....The institutions in charge of serving the boys did what institutions always do in the face of a social media mob. They cratered. The school and archdiocese apologized. The mayor of Covington denounced them. On Sunday several longer videos emerged showing that most of what Phillips had told the media was inaccurate. The incident actually started when members of ...— the Black Hebrew Israelites — started hurling racist and homophobic slurs at the boys. The Covington boys eventually asked their chaperone if they could do their school cheers. As they were doing that Phillips walked into the middle of their circle and banged his drum in the face of one of the boys....The Covington case was...a blatant rush to judgment" (David Brooks, NY Times, 1/21/19)
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