From The Tom Woods Letter:
No doubt you’ve heard the story about the Catholic school kids who supposedly surrounded and mocked a Native American man after the March for Life in Washington, D.C.
The usual libertarian suspects promptly took to social media to assure us of their profound respect for Native Americans (good thing they cleared that up!) and their outrage at these students.
It was the usual embarrassing p.c. sh**show.
By the next day the full video was surfacing, and the original version of the story turns out — you’ll never see this coming — to be a fabrication.
The truly central figures in the story are the Black Hebrew Israelites, or the Black Hebrews. I could tell you all about their theology, but frankly, nobody cares.
At the beginning of the video we see the Black Hebrews taunting the native Americans gathered at the Lincoln Memorial (where the students had gathered at the conclusion of the march, and where by coincidence some Native Americans were having a gathering of their own). “You[‘re] not supposed to worship eagles, buffalos, rams, all types of animals! This is the reason the Lord took away your land!” one of them bellows.
(Gee, I wonder what we’d be discussing right now if those school kids had been shouting things like that.)
A woman who may have been with the native American gathering (it’s unclear from the video) approaches the Black Hebrews to dispute their position. One of the men turns to the camera and says, “This is the problem, Israel; it’s always our women coming up with they [sic] loud mouth…thinking they can come and distract things with they [sic] loud-ass mouth, cause they [sic] not used to dealing with no [sic] real men.”
The native Americans are later told, “You think there’s Uncle Tom? You’re an Uncle Tomahawk. You got your head up the white man’s ass! You say peace? There ain’t gonna be no peace!”
The video also shows a black man shouting at them. They respond, “You got all these racist bastards — you nigger! you nigger! — all these crackers with these racist-ass Make America Great Again hats on, and you want to get violent with us? Get your Uncle Tom ass out of here!”
Meanwhile, for a solid hour the students endure language like: “You little dirty-ass crackers, your day coming!” “Dusty-ass animals!” “Bunch of child-molesting faggots!” The kids are also compared to “dogs” and “hyenas.”
Astonishingly, the kids keep their cool.
Then they’re told that only whites shoot up schools, and that they themselves “look like they [sic] about to shoot up a school right now!”
The kids, who had gathered to listen by that point, showed remarkable restraint by walking away.
(Would the people taunting them have done the same? The question answers itself, doesn’t it?)
The students pass the time (and drown out the Black Hebrews) with some school sports cheers.
It is in this context that Nathan Phillips enters the scene, banging a drum and marching into the crowd of students.
He later told the media that the students “were in the process of attacking these four black individuals.” He went on:
There was that moment when I realized I’ve put myself between beast and prey. These young men were beastly and these old black individuals was their prey, and I stood in between them and so they needed their pounds of flesh and they were looking at me for that.
Not one word of that story is true, we now know. Nobody was attacking anybody. The Black Hebrews themselves had threatened people, it’s true, but the students? Not a single threatening word.
(The mainstream media story, that the kids confronted and surrounded the native Americans, is of course completely preposterous and as false as anything can possibly be.)
The Black Hebrews had shown up to taunt Phillips’ own people, and had been doing so over and over. Phillips doesn’t even mention this. But that’s obviously the whole story!
If he had really wanted to defuse the situation, he should have banged his drum in the faces of the hysterical lunatics who had been screaming racialist inanities for over an hour by that point.
I doubt he would have lived to tell the tale, so he chose instead to confront some high school students, whom he knew full well would not lay a hand on him.
Phillips also told the media that the students had been chanting, “Build the wall!”
We have all two hours worth of footage of what occurred. Not one person uttered those words.
One student recalled: “In the midst of our cheers, we were approached by a group of adults led by Nathan Phillips, with Phillips beating his drum. They forced their way to the center of our group. We initially thought this was a cultural display since he was beating along to our cheers and so we clapped to the beat.”
Soon the situation became confusing, especially with Phillips inappropriately in the student’s physical space. No one quite knew what was happening; you can hear multiple people asking, “What is going on?”
But they had shouted their cheers to the beat of Phillips’ drum, and this is unforgivable.
As Robby Soave wrote in Reason, after watching all two hours of the video, “There’s shockingly little evidence of wrongdoing.”
But these students should be ruined for this, according to major celebrities and half the Twitterverse, the vast majority of whom never saw the video.
Immediately afterward, by the way, the Black Hebrews were back at it, telling the kids that America will be destroyed in a nuclear holocaust, and that they themselves are all bound to become school shooters.
This is ignored. It’s kids jumping up and down to a drum beat for two minutes that everyone needs to note.
You’d think we’d also want to note that this Native American man thought it was the students, after an hour’s worth of vile filth being spewed at them, who needed to be approached with his drum. How deranged is that?
Meanwhile, half the country rushed to judgment on the basis of Phillips’ false statement, and of a picture of a student staring at Phillips, who was banging a drum an inch from his face.
I’d say the kid handled himself well. After having endured a full hour of vicious taunting — which would itself have been national news had the races involved been reversed — he stood there silently.
Oooh, but standing there silently can also be “racist”!
What can you say to something like that?
Again: the Black Hebrews had been taunting Phillips’ own people since they arrived, but Phillips claims he thought the students were the problem! If I’d been taunted and abused for a solid hour, and someone thought the right thing to do was to pound a drum in my face — my face! — I’d be flabbergasted myself: what the hell is happening here?
Come on.
It seems vastly more likely that he knew he could make an incident out of it (as has happened with Phillips in the past) by choosing the side that had been restrained and reasonable. (Again, don’t believe me? Watch the video.)
Meanwhile, this kid has been compared to a Klansman and a ’60s-era segregationist — for standing there amidst what was obviously intended to be a provocation, and a completely unwarranted one.
That kid — and his classmates — had done nothing. They had goofed off, or even just remained silent, during a full hour of abuse. They deserve medals.
Of course, the school administration and chancery officials in the diocese condemned these kids as soon as they heard the first version of events. These people are cowards, without exception, and if you ever find yourself in a situation where you’re thinking, “I sure hope the school administration [or the chancery office of the diocese] will back me up,” trust me, you’re sunk.
If I were a parent in this situation I’d talk to a lawyer immediately, and I would be sure the school and the diocese knew that I and other parents were doing so.
Message: if you cowards are going to sacrifice my kids to the social media mob, I am going to make your lives miserable.
Meanwhile, note well that major conservative individuals and publications rushed to judgment just as much as the mainstream media and the left. National Review has since posted a non-apology apology, as has the March for Life itself.
The conservative movement’s first instinct is always p.c. grandstanding. The left feels no comparable urge to appease its own opponents. Then conservatives wonder why they lose.
Now this may be just one incident, but you know what? I don’t think it is. The fault lines are becoming more and more pronounced. If you’re not on board with the SJW program, don’t expect better treatment than this.
Prominent figures on Twitter demanded these kids be doxxed and their lives destroyed.
Some Twitter folks, even when presented with the full video, couldn’t help themselves, and basically thought whatever happened to a kid wearing a MAGA hat was deserved.
“Oh, but I don’t like those hats, either,” say clueless libertarians — as if the SJW mob, which calls you a Nazi for opposing Obamacare, will be sure to make careful distinctions in your case.

This is why increased border security is not the issue. 

https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/22/politics/...index.html

"The wall, for the President, is a monument. To himself"

Those innocent young men were only trying to diffuse a bad situation ?  I ain't buying it.

They were there for a school sponsored protest accompanied by adult chaperones. A key purpose of all protest/marches is a level of provocation. Not saying
violent provocation. But protests are to bond with like minded folk and to piss off people with differing opinions. In DC, provocation is on steroids. Adults had to know this.
Add MAGA hats and you have a very bad situation. MAGA hats had nothing to do with the "alleged" purpose for which the kids were there for. That red hat symbolizes confrontation. The children were pawns.
They were asking to be "doxxed" The adult chaperones knew this as well. Parents and other adults from Covington are certainly complicit in this potential disaster.

So when will Gillette be rolling out its new line of self-castration razors for men?
Unless you’ve been living under a rock on Venus, you are aware of Gillette’s rampagingly misandrist two-minute video that takes men—OK, white men—to task for rape and bullying and harassment and roughhousing and barbecuing and talking down to female employees and wolf-whistling and calling women “sweetie” and calling each other “sissies.”

As footage of men and boys being assholes unspools, a male announcer scolds the audience:

Quote:Is this the best a man can get? Is it? We can’t hide from it. It’s been going on far too long. We can’t laugh it off. But something finally changed. And there will be no going back, because we—we believe in the best in men. To say the right thing, to act the right way. Some already are, in ways big and small. But some is not enough, because the boys watching today will be the men of tomorrow.

Quote:Thirty years ago, we launched our The Best A Man Can Get tagline….But turn on the news today and it’s easy to believe that men are not at their best. Many find themselves at a crossroads, caught between the past and a new era of masculinity.

“House Budget Committee chair Rep. John Yarmuth (D-KY) called Sunday for a ban on teenagers wearing ‘Make America Great Again’ (MAGA) hats…” In his words:
“I am calling for a total and complete shutdown of teenagers wearing MAGA hats until we can figure out what is going on. They seem to be poisoning young minds.
“…This is a direct result of the racist hatred displayed daily by the President of the United States who, sadly, some mistake for a role model.”

I hate to make blanket statements against an entire group but since 2016 I haven't herd anything from Democrats that wasn't either insane or a lie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijLJSTGA3hs

IT’S HARD TO BE BLACK IN ASIA
According to the esteemed newspaper the Zambian Observer, a 25-year-old Zambian student in China was clubbed to death by four Chinese nationals for dating a Chinese woman.
According to a friend of now-dead Chrispine Mwale:

Quote:I rushed to the scene and only found four Chinese men beating and insulting him that their is no black man allowed to date their people. They insulted him that Africa was too poor and they would not allow black beings to be raised in their country. Despite pleading, they hit him with iron bars and stones until his final breath.

Making America Stupid Again
Karen De Coster

This script of the native American drummer “being harassed” has gone overboard.
I cannot believe how many people believe every false narrative they see on social media, especially when it is one of those well-edited videos accompanied by a graphic overlay of “what happened” that is meant to indict one party while drawing sympathy for the other party that is deemed to be the “victim.” These videos, always, are designed to lock you into the point of view of the presenter without daring to question it, because to do so would be so politically incorrect that you’d be too ashamed and too intimidated to be the one non-believing outlier that stands out in front of your friends on social media. Opining on the side of the so-called “victim” without having an understanding of the framework and context is virtue-signaling for the sake of winning approvals.
The “what happened” should immediately be objectively questioned rather than forming a spontaneous emotional reaction and making an uninformed comment. What happened with the native American drummer is not what the MSM has presented to us. Folks should have suspected that without ever having to see this full-footage video. What all happened is still up for grabs, but what is known is that the MAGA youths were approached and/or harassed by the drummer and others in the crowd because of they way they looked, and what they were wearing. And here’s another video showing the MAGA youths being approached.
Questions, people, ask the questions first. Howard Stern was right when he said social media is going to kill all of us.

What would you call a system that used force, violence, coercion, and intimidation to compel one person to work for the benefit of another person or persons?