They were not standing there minding their own business. They were taunting the lack Hebrew Israelites (who started the taunting) and the native American.
The situation is not as it was initially portrayed, but the kids are still assholes.
Their school chants, including tomahawk chops, were provocative and taunting.
But anything's OK as long as you're a Republican.
ABE I've seen lots of the videos. You pretend as if Mr. Sandman wasn't there. Have you seen the expression on the boy who was in his face?
Everyone knows the Black Hebrew Israelites are incorrigible assholes. The adult way to handle them is to ignore them or leave. The asshole way is to get down in the mud with them.
But it's nice to see you accept the tomahawk chops since I posted a video of them.
Chanting is not doing nothing. In that situation it's provocative and stupid, and asshole behavior. The chant, BTW, is extremely racist. Tomahawk chop - Wikipedia
Message 556 clearly shows tomahawk chops during the racist chant. No matter what Sandmann does or does not say.
From Wikipedia:
quote: Usage of the tomahawk chop has led to complaints that it made fun of Native American culture.[18] It also was criticized for being a reference to the former practice of scalping.[14] Shortly after the Atlanta Braves adopted it, there were a number of calls from Native Americans for Braves fans to stop doing the tomahawk chop.[10] Prior to the 1991 World Series a number of Native Americans protested against the Braves using the tomahawk chop outside the Metrodome. During the protests Clyde Bellecourt, national director of the American Indian Movement, suggested that the team could be called "the Atlanta Negroes, Atlanta Klansmen or Atlanta Nazis".[19] In 2009, the Gill-Montague Regional School Committee, a local school board in Massachusetts, banned the use of the gesture at school sporting events, calling it offensive and discriminatory.[20] In 2016, Native American groups asked the Kansas City Chiefs to stop doing the tomahawk chop.[21] In the same year a similar request was made of Exeter Chiefs.[22]
In politics, during the 2012 Senate election in Massachusetts, staffers of candidate Scott Brown were filmed doing the tomahawk chop at a campaign rally towards supporters of Elizabeth Warren, to mock Warren's claim of having Native American ancestry.[23]
quote: Amidst all the ref-working, bad faith arguments, false equivalencies, and targeted attacks on reporters by the far right since videos showing a group of teens from Covington Catholic High School in Kentucky hooting, jeering, and mocking a Native American elder were made public, one piece of evidence can’t be hand-waved away or pettifogged until the truth is unrecognizable: the Tomahawk Chop.
In multiple videos, the studentssome of whom, prior to gathering at the Lincoln Memorial, were allegedly howling MAGA! at random female passers-bycan be seen engaging in the familiar chant, bringing their arm downward as if wielding a tomahawk while belting out a crude version of traditional Native American songs. Fans of the Atlanta Braves, Kansas City Chiefs, Florida State University, and numerous high schools with Native American mascots have been chopping away for decades. But make no mistake: The chant in and of itself is considered a slur by Native Americans and advocacy groups have plaintively asked sports teams to stop rubber-stamping this behavior since it first gained prominence.
No, I proved they were doing tomahawk chops and a racist chant. Nobody can prove their intent, including you, but the action was racist and provocative.
It's not crazy to accept the kids did what they did on camera.
quote: Sandmann’s interview is of a piece with the statement he put out earlier in the week with the assistance (or probably actually written by) a GOP PR firm hired by his parents. Sandmann says he was simply trying to defuse the situation and wanted to listen to Phillips.
As someone who was once a high school boy, I can say with some confidence that that is utter bullshit. If you set aside the political and racial dynamics of the encounter, the crowd dynamics are quite clear. Sandmann isn’t trying to defuse the situation. He’s acting like a tough guy and signaling his disdain for Phillips and quite clearly playing to his classmates. He’s feeding off their hoops and hollers and vice versa. The smirk is partly the property of all young men. But in Sandmann’s case it’s also about the confidence of privilege and power in the face of the outlandishness of Phillip’s self-presentation.
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