"It Was Getting Ugly"- Native American Drummer on MAGA teens surrounding him
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Your link is messed up. Fixed version: https://truthout.org/articles/the-maga-boys-are-racist-brats/
Also I don't know if this link will stay valid but for anyone curious about the integrity of that site since it doesn't appear to be rated by MBFC: Newsguard Nutrition Label
The key part is
As Vice reported, Runswitch PR, the firm the Sandmann family hired, has a history of supporting powerful Republicans, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. Runswitch PR was founded by CNN contributor Scott Jennings, a former adviser to McConnell and George W. Bush. Jennings currently advises a McConnell super PAC.
Sandmann’s supporters did not seem to contest accusations that the statement was authored by a PR firm, and instead insisted that it was perfectly normal that the boy’s narrative was outsourced to professionals, rather than being told in his own words.
Interestingly, CNN personality Jake Tapper was an early promoter of the new narrative. Jennings is also a frequent guest on Tapper’s show. Since sharing the statement, Tapper has faced questions about why he did not disclose the involvement of Runswitch PR. It has also been revealed that Donald Trump’s top White House attorney is a Covington graduate.
Dressing up in blackface and saying it's for a blackout game is like dressing up as a KKK member and saying you're a ghost imo
Yeah except ghost costumes dont have pointed hoods
Everyone knows blackface is racist, you dont paint your entire body and face full black and not think that it comes off as racist. There is a reason only 3 kids are painted up like that out of the crowd. They're edgelords feigning ignorance
I guess wearing a KKK hoodie during Halloween is OK as well. Context people. Context.
You guys say this as though the entire point of that picture wasn't that these same kids counter-protested a fucking Indigenous Peoples' March in MAGA hats shouting "build the wall" and "it's not rape if you enjoy it." Yes, using context clues, we can determine that them wearing black facepaint is almost definitely blackface because we already know they're fucking racist little shits.
you're right, context is important. so why are you ignoring the context that they were at a game where everyone was encouraged to wesr black, the context of sports fans commonly painting themselves, and the context of minstrel shows, the reason why blackface is racist, being far more about making fun of black people by pretending to be them than it ever was about the visual aspect (which included more than just black facepaint anyways)?
Looking back at the post, I must have skimmed over the part mentioning the picture was from 2013. v😶v
I went to a majority white school up until 7th grade, then I moved to a basically 50/50 environment. It was in that transition that I learned a lot about racism and how subtle it can be sometimes.
I can say from this experience that if you're the kind of group that can wear blackface without anybody pointing out to how horrible it is, you've isolated yourself. Intentionally or not, you live in a white bubble and in my experience there's a lot of ignorance that comes with that. Maybe you did just paint yourself up in a silly costume... but personally I'd like to stay as far away as I can from people who can do that without having half their friends go "woooah dude, you can't do that!"
for clarification, i had made the post before it came to my attention that these guys had a history of pulling off similar racist stunts, and in light of this info i gotta say i agree that it is now likely they have done blackface. i had made my post without being aware of all the facts and i apologize.
however, i do stand by my previous statement that using black facepaint in the context of a blackout game would not necessarily have been equal to blackface in intent at all. i believe the connection between black facepaint and blackface is not as strong and unquestionable, as, say, a triangular white hood and the uniform of the KKK, which is a pretty famous icon even these days.
Please look at the actual evidence. The video disproves that they were yelling "build the wall," and somone, who didn't even attend the school, yelled the rape thing in a back and forth with the super racist and inflammatory Black Israelite group.
I have seen blackout games, never seen people donning blackface at them though. They just dress in black clothing like 98% of the people in that photo. Guess those guys just had more school spirit...???
Assumptions are mental shortcuts. There isn't a great reason to use them most of the time.
I am not. I am saying it's pretty damn stupid to do it on these sport events as well.
Your blackouts sound lame as fuck btw when we had them they would turn off all the lights and give everyone neon bracelets and other glow in the dark things as opposed to just dressing up in black clothing
It's nice to see the users of this forum verbally attack an innocent child simply for having a red hat on while feeling morally superior to said child while doing it.
sounds like moonlight bowling which was always my favorite way to bowl
You might wanna look into what said red hat is a symbol for.
The comments on this video are almost as disgusting as the video itself
if you actually read the thread you would realize that the users here noticed that this was something more complicated than "maga kid bad!!1!"
Er the video shows that the Israelite dudes started talking shit to them first
I mean, it definitely took a while though. Anyone posting evidence that the situation might be a little more complex got rated in the depths of hell on the first few pages.
These days people use a situation and milk it for an agenda more than ever, they care less about the truth of a situation and jump to a conclusion based on snippets of information, ya know a "little knowledge is dangerous".
Oh yes, all of zero people retweeting this fake piece of information from trusted news source «literally fucking who?» should be very ashamed of themselves.
How about screw everyone who does this «march for life» shit, regardless of red hats and taunting native americans or not? This didn't shatter anything, the kid is still a piece of shit.
he is a piece of shit for standing there, allowing the native man to bang the drum so close to his face he flinches each and every time the drums gets banged. and the look on his face..... THE SMIRK!!!
“A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself—anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide. In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face (to look incredulous when a victory was announced, for example) was itself a punishable offence. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: FACECRIME, it was called.”
George Orwell 1984
i too hope the entirety of the left wing political spectrum comes together to condemn this tweet with 7 likes
We'll also delete that because private/sensitive information should never be posted.
Your blackouts sound more like a rave TBH.
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