The Mainstream Media is now
backpedaling away from the senseless personal destruction that they
unleashed upon a group of Catholic high school boys last Saturday, after
their false reporting in the NY Times, Time.com and the cable news
triggered dozens of death threats, a hail of condemnation from Hollywood
celebrities and the threat of expulsion from their school. The Truth
Factory has put together this report about the making of this bogus
narrative.
The MAGA hat-wearing students from
Covington High School in Kentucky had just attended an anti-abortion
march and were waiting for their bus ride home in front of the Lincoln
Memorial when they were verbally assaulted by members of an extremist
fringe of the Black Hebrew Israelites group, who screamed racist
epithets like “Crackers” and “Incest children” at them. With the
permission of their monitors, the boys responded with school spirit
chants.
About an hour into this, Nathan
Phillips, a Vietnam Vet from Michigan who’d been attending a separate
Native American rally stepped into the mêlée and began banging his drum
in the face of high schooler Nick Sandmann. Phillips said, “Something
caused me to put myself between [them] – it was black and white. What I
saw was my country being torn apart. I couldn’t stand by and let that
happen.”
Sandmann was confounded but remained
calm and smiled at Phillips. He says, “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 diffuse [sic] the situation.”
The Mainstream Media however
construed Sandmann’s posture as “taunting”, due to Nathan Phillips’
tear-stained, on-camera complaint filmed later, in which he claimed the
boys exhibited a “mob mentality” and were chanting “Build that wall,”
which the boys deny and of which there is no evidence in hours of
cellphone video captured at the scene.
What’s amazing to me is how, missing
from all of these reports is any discussion whatsoever about the real
racists who set off this frenzy in the first place, namely the Black
supremacist element of the Black Hebrew Israelites movement, whose
radicalized members can be seen in large cities of the US any day of the
week screaming at passersby in high-visibility places, like Manhattan’s
Times Square and the National Mall in DC. According to the SPLC, the
BHI “believe that Jews are devilish impostors and…whites [are] evil
personified.”
I walked past this group every day
for many years in the 1980s and 1990s. They’re so extreme, their antics
could almost be mistaken for self parody if their hatred weren’t so
palpable and vehement. City people know enough to ignore them and to not
fuel their rage. The Covington boys’ chaperones should have moved them
away.
In my opinion, the Black Hebrew
Israelites movement needs to do some soul-searching, for allowing this
hateful element to fester among their ranks for decades.
As for the
professional journalists who used their platforms to lie about high
school kids, doxx them and try to ruin their lives, they deserve to be
censured, if not fired in some cases.
For his part, Sandmann thanked Phillips
for his [military] service and said he is “grateful to anyone who puts
on the uniform to defend our nation. I harbor no ill will for
[Phillips]. I respect this person’s right to engage in free speech
activities, and I support his chanting on the steps of the Lincoln
Memorial any day of the week. I believe he should re-think his tactics of invading the personal space of others, but that is his choice to make.”