There’s been a lot of focus on an incident in Washington, DC that was portrayed as a standoff between a Native American elder and disrespectful Trump-supporting white teens. The actual facts of the matter never backed up this portrayal, but that did not stop mainstream media from using this incident to run their anti-Trump narrative all over the airwaves, with the reliable complicity of anti-Trump celebrities.
So obvious was the bias and falsity of this narrative that many celebrities have had to backpedal, and mainstream outlets have had to actually put out slightly more neutral reporting on the subject, with articles like this one from CNN using the tried and true alibi that ‘a new video has surfaced’ which excuses them from their prior indiscretions. (Please refer to this CNN article if you haven’t heard the basic details of the story).
The Damage Has Been Done
Regardless of retractions and revisions, the intended damage has been done: to sow more hatred and division in the country and put the blame squarely on Donald Trump. No matter that high school teens have been scarred by comments like this one by Disney movie producer Jack Morrissey:
Or that their high school had to be closed because of protests from what appeared to be an indigenous group (see video embedded in this Global News article) who somehow thought high school students at Covington High School were the source of their problems.
Mainstream Strategy
As a rule, the way mainstream media presents news is founded on attempts to keep us divided and in fear. This is so that the Deep State can maintain power and control, as we have discussed in previous articles. However, there is now an additional motive: To put the blame for all the division in the country on Donald Trump, as the Deep State would want nothing more than to have him out of power.
Listening to the testimony of Native American elder Nathan Phillips, who thrust himself in the middle of the maelstrom, and Kaya Taitano, 26, who was part of the Indigenous People’s March and was the person who posted the abbreviated video that quickly went viral in the mainstream, you have to wonder: Were they intending to create this narrative before anything ever happened?
Narrative-Building
It is certainly interesting how the story goes from a confrontation between teenagers minding their own business and a group of aggressive and clearly offensive ‘Hebrew Israelite’ men to one in which the Native American agenda was suddenly pitted directly against the MAGA-hatted teens. In this article, Taitano claims that Phillips’ banging a drum right in front of a 16-year old’s face was somehow an attempt to ‘pacify’ the situation.
“Those kids were so lucky that elder stepped in. He was chanting to cleanse the negative energy in the area.The kids were saying, ‘Land just gets stolen. That’s just how it is.’ They’re so arrogant.”
There is no evidence that the teenagers ever said anything like this, nor does it seem reasonable that any of them would presume to be authorities on the plight of Native Americans from days long gone by. There is also no evidence about what Phillips claims they said here below:
I heard them saying ‘Build that wall, build that wall.” You know, this is indigenous lands. You know, we’re not supposed to have walls here, we never did. If anybody else came here, we never had walls. We never had a prison. We always took care of our elders, and our children. We always provided for them. We taught them right from wrong. I wish I could see the energy of those young men, you know, put that energy into, you know, to make this country really great.
The full-length video that came out after proves that these kids were not shouting ‘Build that wall’. It is far too coincidental that Phillips makes that unsubstantiated claim, and that he would try to bring the esteem of Native American culture into the fray by saying ‘we’re not supposed to have walls here, we never did.’ The fact that Phillips has already been seen contradicting his own testimony as the new evidence came out should give us pause as to whether there was some pre-meditation involved in his ‘pacifying’ drum-beating.
Compound that with the fact that nobody is saying anything about these ‘Hebrew Israelite’ men who were the prime instigators of the situation. It’s because they have nothing to do with the narrative being pushed. All the emphasis by the mainstream media was put on demonizing the kids wearing MAGA hats and, while perhaps backing off later on their attack on the kids, are still implying that the MAGA hats were the real cause of the conflict, and by extension that Donald Trump is the real cause of division in America. Accordingly, we can expect the next headline from CNN to be something like ‘Trump takes students’ side in racially charged DC protest controversy“. Oh, wait. They already wrote that one. The sideshow continues.
Student’s Testimony
I will leave you with a statement written about the incident by Nick Sandmann, the student depicted by mainstream media as confronting and ‘disrespecting’ the Native American elder. It might help you appreciate not only how shallow and deceitful mainstream media’s coverage has become, but also the disregard they have about who gets hurt in the process:
I am providing this factual account of what happened on Friday afternoon at the Lincoln Memorial to correct misinformation and outright lies being spread about my family and me.
I am the student in the video who was confronted by the Native American protestor. I arrived at the Lincoln Memorial at 4:30 p.m. I was told to be there by 5:30 p.m., when our busses were due to leave Washington for the trip back to Kentucky. We had been attending the March for Life rally, and then had split up into small groups to do sightseeing.
When we arrived, we noticed four African American protestors who were also on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. I am not sure what they were protesting, and I did not interact with them. I did hear them direct derogatory insults at our school group.
The protestors said hateful things. They called us “racists,” “bigots,” “white crackers,” “faggots,” and “incest kids.” They also taunted an African American student from my school by telling him that we would “harvest his organs.” I have no idea what that insult means, but it was startling to hear.
Because we were being loudly attacked and taunted in public, a student in our group asked one of our teacher chaperones for permission to begin our school spirit chants to counter the hateful things that were being shouted at our group. The chants are commonly used at sporting events. They are all positive in nature and sound like what you would hear at any high school. Our chaperone gave us permission to use our school chants. We would not have done that without obtaining permission from the adults in charge of our group.
At no time did I hear any student chant anything other than the school spirit chants. I did not witness or hear any students chant “build that wall” or anything hateful or racist at any time. Assertions to the contrary are simply false. Our chants were loud because we wanted to drown out the hateful comments that were being shouted at us by the protestors.
After a few minutes of chanting, the Native American protestors, who I hadn’t previously noticed, approached our group. The Native American protestors had drums and were accompanied by at least one person with a camera.
The protestor everyone has seen in the video began playing his drum as he waded into the crowd, which parted for him. I did not see anyone try to block his path. He locked eyes with me and approached me, coming within inches of my face. He played his drum the entire time he was in my face.
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. 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.
During the period of the drumming, a member of the protestor’s entourage began yelling at a fellow student that we “stole our land” and that we should “go back to Europe.” I heard one of my fellow students begin to respond. I motioned to my classmate and tried to get him to stop engaging with the protestor, as I was still in the mindset that we needed to calm down tensions.
I never felt like I was blocking the Native American protestor. He did not make any attempt to go around me. It was clear to me that he had singled me out for a confrontation, although I am not sure why.
The engagement ended when one of our teachers told me the busses had arrived and it was time to go. I obeyed my teacher and simply walked to the busses. At that moment, I thought I had diffused the situation by remaining calm, and I was thankful nothing physical had occurred.
I never understood why either of the two groups of protestors were engaging with us, or exactly what they were protesting at the Lincoln Memorial. We were simply there to meet a bus, not become central players in a media spectacle. This is the first time in my life I’ve ever encountered any sort of public protest, let alone this kind of confrontation or demonstration.
I was not intentionally making faces at the protestor. I did smile at one point because I wanted him to know that I was not going to become angry, intimidated or be provoked into a larger confrontation. I am a faithful Christian and practicing Catholic, and I always try to live up to the ideals my faith teaches me – to remain respectful of others, and to take no action that would lead to conflict or violence.
I harbor no ill will for this person. I respect this person’s right to protest and 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.
I am being called every name in the book, including a racist, and I will not stand for this mob-like character assassination of my family’s name. My parents were not on the trip, and I strive to represent my family in a respectful way in all public settings.
I have received physical and death threats via social media, as well as hateful insults. One person threatened to harm me at school, and one person claims to live in my neighborhood. My parents are receiving death and professional threats because of the social media mob that has formed over this issue.
I love my school, my teachers and my classmates. I work hard to achieve good grades and to participate in several extracurricular activities. I am mortified that so many people have come to believe something that did not happen – that students from my school were chanting or acting in a racist fashion toward African Americans or Native Americans. I did not do that, do not have hateful feelings in my heart, and did not witness any of my classmates doing that.
I cannot speak for everyone, only for myself. But I can tell you my experience with Covington Catholic is that students are respectful of all races and cultures. We also support everyone’s right to free speech.
I am not going to comment on the words or account of Mr. Phillips, as I don’t know him and would not presume to know what is in his heart or mind. Nor am I going to comment further on the other protestors, as I don’t know their hearts or minds, either.
I have read that Mr. Phillips is a veteran of the United States Marines. I thank him for his service and am grateful to anyone who puts on the uniform to defend our nation. If anyone has earned the right to speak freely, it is a U.S. Marine veteran.
I can only speak for myself and what I observed and felt at the time. But I would caution everyone passing judgement based on a few seconds of video to watch the longer video clips that are on the internet, as they show a much different story than is being portrayed by people with agendas.
I provided this account of events to the Diocese of Covington so they may know exactly what happened, and I stand ready and willing to cooperate with any investigation they are conducting.
If the mainstream media should be talking about anything, it is this eloquent statement and the maturity and bravery with which Nick Sandmann handled himself in his efforts to diffuse the situation. But don’t hold your breath.
The Takeaway
On a daily basis, the tactics of mainstream media is to take stories and, rather than searching for deeper understanding and more inspiring truths, create narratives that keep us divided. They love to create sides and identify people as either the victims or the oppressors, and that baits us to choose a side. We can use examples like the story described above to see the dishonest and manipulative methods used by the mainstream to suit the agenda of their masters. And it is why conscious media, which answers to no masters and solely looks to uncover the truth, is more important now than ever.