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Post by Admin on Jan 22, 2019 17:49:51 GMT
President Donald Trump and his eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., both weighed in on the controversy involving MAGA hat-clad teens from a Kentucky Catholic school, a Native American activist and a black separatist group known as the Black Hebrew Israelites.
In a tweet Monday night, Trump wrote that the students were "treated unfairly with early judgements proving out to be false — smeared by media."
Meanwhile, on Fox News' "The Ingraham Angle," Trump Jr. told Laura Ingraham on Monday that the media "had to pounce" on the teens because the narrative of racist kids wearing Trump's signature campaign memorabilia and displaying contempt for a Native American elder was too good to pass up.
"They want a bunch of nice Catholic kids — happen to be white — they want them to be the enemy," Trump Jr. said on Monday.
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Post by Admin on Jan 22, 2019 18:06:12 GMT
By now most of the internet has seen the viral video of Native American veteran Nathan Phillips and MAGA hat-wearing high schoolers at the Indigenous Peoples March in D.C. Since then, longer and longer videos have surfaced that show the events leading up to that encounter, and who was in the right seems to vacillate depending on how far back any given video goes.  The student featured most prominently in the video, Nick Sandmann, put out a statement on Sunday giving his version of what happened. The teens were in D.C. with their school, Covington Catholic High in Kentucky, for the annual anti-abortion March for Life, which had wrapped up by the time the events in the videos took place. Near the Lincoln Memorial, they reportedly crossed paths first with a group of Black Hebrew Israelites (which the Southern Poverty Law Center has designated a hate group) who began taunting the students. In response, the boys started doing school chants to drown them out when Phillips and other activists with the Indigenous Peoples March approached. Sandmann writes: I never interacted with this protestor. I did not speak to him. I did not make any hand gestures or other aggressive moves. To be honest, I was startled and confused as to why he had approached me. We had already been yelled at by another group of protestors, and when the second group approached I was worried that a situation was getting out of control where adults were attempting to provoke teenagers. I believed that by remaining motionless and calm, I was helping to diffuse the situation," he said. "I realized everyone had cameras and that perhaps a group of adults was trying to provoke a group of teenagers into a larger conflict. I said a silent prayer that the situation would not get out of hand. |
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Post by Admin on Jan 23, 2019 17:37:36 GMT
Alyssa Milano compared the bright red “Make America Great Again” hats worn by supporters of President Donald Trump to the white hoods worn by members of the Ku Klux Klan. On Sunday, the actress and activist tweeted: “The red MAGA hat is the new white hood. Without white boys being able to empathize with other people, humanity will continue to destroy itself.” Milano’s tweet about MAGA hats and white hoods ― a comparison that others have made, including the rapper Pusha T ― met with a range of responses. Many conservatives lambasted her for the remark, while many on the left supported it:  |
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Post by Admin on Jan 24, 2019 17:35:49 GMT
Alyssa Milano was swiftly criticized on Twitter after comparing President Trump’s red Make America Great Again hats to the white hoods of the Ku Klux Klan. And now she’s planning to write an op-ed to address the brewing backlash. Her initial tweet, which was shared on Sunday, appeared to reference the confrontations that erupted around a Kentucky teenager and a Native American elder at overlapping marches at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington over the weekend, a flashpoint that had been mischaracterized in the media and on social media.  “The red MAGA hat is the new white hood. Without white boys being able to empathize with other people, humanity will continue to destroy itself #FirstThoughtsWhenIWakeUp,” the actress-activist wrote. |
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Post by Admin on Jan 25, 2019 17:39:00 GMT
In fact, additional footage showed that there were other groups potentially inciting tension and that Sandmann was trying to de-escalate it. By Monday, Milano addressed the larger debate, particularly the aspects that relate to abortion, but that didn’t appear to defuse the situation.
“Let’s not forget — this entire event happened because a group of boys went on a school-sanctioned trip to protest against a woman’s right to her own body and reproductive healthcare. It is not debatable that bigotry was at play from the start,” she wrote, further elaborating with her own views on abortion.
“There isn’t a side in this debate that isn’t pro-life. I am pro-life. I am also pro-choice. Those calling me an infant killer are anti-choice. Once again, your religious beliefs do not carry more weight than scientific facts and my physical autonomy,” she added.
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