Oh, crap. Here we go....

UPDATE -- See the right sidebar  >>> for a link to a statement by Nick Sandmann, the young man in the "nasty little white boys MAGA hat" video. Turns out the Native American "elder" is a far-left activist who has showed up at a lot of stuff like this. Occupy stuff. Pipeline stuff.  And this time, he lied, bigtime. As noted elsewhere on the web, he will show up on FAKE HATE CRIMES.ORG soon. (End of update.)

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Somebody at the forum where I was just banned for life posted this:

PS: I wonder what her take would be on the nasty little white boys?
Claiming to be part Cherokee, would she support the Native American?
Or kids with MAGA hats chanting 'we want the wall'? 

Interesting. I wonder what HIS take was on this hateful display of anti-Trump, anti-Kavanaugh "protesters" harassing an old man. At least the "nasty little white boys" didn't try to knock the drum out of the elder's hands. This old gentleman is doing nothing but standing there, holding signs. No banging a drum. No chanting. What is it in the two hateful harassers that causes their despicable behavior? Oh, but leftists would never do anything so mean! Only nasty little white boys in MAGA hats are mean like that.

Leftist hypocrisy is sickening.

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Found this on another forum. It is enough to make me completely suspicious of the claims against the MAGA hat boys (emphasis mine):

On 18 January, 2019, during the March for Life in Washington, D.C., another much smaller event was also scheduled. It was the first Indigenous Peoples March.  The video at the link shows there may have been a couple of hundred at the march, compared to many thousands at the 46th March for Life.

Nathan Phillips, an Oklahoma elder and Native American activist, was drumming and chanting during the two events. He moved away from his group and approached a group of pro-life teenagers, some of who were wearing MAGA hats.

The video can be seen below. Phillips gets right into the young man's personal space. It appears Phillips is trying to intimidate him, to get him to move or flinch, or push back. At one point Phillips drum appears to touch the young man's shoulder. Phillips beats the drum literally in the young man's face.  The drum stick is flashing by, only inches from his nose. At the same time, Phillips is chanting/screaming directly into the young man's face.  It appears to be an attempt at provocation by Phillips.

The young MAGA hat wearer refuses to be intimidated or provoked into a reaction that can be used against him.

It does not matter. The Washington Post runs a story claiming the young MAGA hat wearer showed disrespect by "smirking" at Phillips.

Phillips was involved in another incident in Michigan, where he claimed to have been disrespected. No evidence but his testimony was apparent. From his account, he appears to have provoked any incident that might have happened in Michigan.

At newsmaven.io/indiancountrytoday, the writer tries to portray the incident as teenagers in MAGA hats ridiculing, mocking, and taunting Phillips.

Some of the commenters there watched the video and are not buying the "mocking" narrative.

from onlygirl:

    The elder demanded that boys attention, and the boy stood there and willingly gave it. The elder made him a part of it and the boy accepted by respectfully giving his attention to the elder. My sons who are half native would have done the exact same thing. Honestly to me it looks like the kids were enjoying it and the elder made them a part of it. I guess people want to find something to be offended about. There is nothing wrong with making america great again either. His hat is just a hat.

 from Red C:

    No disrespect seen by the kids. The elder activist confronted THEM, while they were minding their own business, broke away from the march. They said and did nothing racist or demeaning, just danced and tried to chant along, or stood silently in their discomfort and tried to have a good time in spite of not knowing just how to react to a grown man approaching them whose culture they were not part of. Bullying and hating on these kids by the leftist agenda divisive SJWs at ICTMN is the abuse here. And I am native.

Watch the video, make up your own mind. Social Justice Warriors are piling on. They have given out the number of the school the  teens came from. They claim to identify the teen who silently stood and endured the provocation by Phillips.

This is a creating of an outrage from nothing, unless you consider the obvious provocation by Phillips.  It was created for the media, to show the power of the left to intimidate and cower anyone who is not in one of their favored identity groups.

This is how fake news is created.

©2019 by Dean Weingarten: Permission to share is granted when this notice is included.

Note: I listened to the entire video above of the elder drumming and I didn't hear any chanting, "We want the wall." But if they had been, so what? The boys were there in that space first, and he encroached upon them. It looks like he was trying to stir up an incident ... and, of course, the leftist media will gladly promote anything to make white males look bad.

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P.S. The question from the other forum illustrates soooo perfectly the totally thoughtless group-think, the identity politics of the left. Because I have Cherokee ancestry, I'm supposed to automatically, without thought, support the Native American? But what if the Native American is wrong?

No, I prefer to find out who, if anyone, is at fault. And right now, the elder's behavior doesn't look all that superior to the nasty little white boys in MAGA hats.