During the Indigenous People’s March this month, there was a huge conflict. The Catholic High School of Covington was found mocking the March. A video has surfaced a couple of weeks ago, as it shows a teen smirking at Nathan Phillips, a Vietnam war veteran and Native American leader as well. In the video it shows Nathan Phillips singing his language, while the teen smirks at him wearing a ‘Make America Great Again’ hat. As soon as the video surfaced people were outraged at the teen, saying that he was a racist and sending death threats to him. During an interview with Phillips he says that the song he was signing during the march was a song about peace and love in his language.
The teen is named Nick Sandmann, and with an interview on the Today Show Sandmann apologizes for his action he said ‘ I should’ve walked away from that situation.’ The school has also apologized on Twitter, but that wasn’t enough for the public. Tweets saying that the students should be punished for his actions or expelled completely from the school but the school has not responded to any of these tweets yet.
More videos have surfaced on Twitter, and in some videos people from the march are heard yelling slurs and threats to the teens of the school, with both groups in the wrong. From my view, I feel that both groups escalated the situation more than it should’ve. The students shouldn’t have gone involved with the march to start to a situation, and the people of the march shouldn’t have hurled slurs at the students either. As I said earlier both groups had fault in this situation, and none of the groups should’ve escalated that situation which in the end turned into something bad.
The teen is named Nick Sandmann, and with an interview on the Today Show Sandmann apologizes for his action he said ‘ I should’ve walked away from that situation.’ The school has also apologized on Twitter, but that wasn’t enough for the public. Tweets saying that the students should be punished for his actions or expelled completely from the school but the school has not responded to any of these tweets yet.
More videos have surfaced on Twitter, and in some videos people from the march are heard yelling slurs and threats to the teens of the school, with both groups in the wrong. From my view, I feel that both groups escalated the situation more than it should’ve. The students shouldn’t have gone involved with the march to start to a situation, and the people of the march shouldn’t have hurled slurs at the students either. As I said earlier both groups had fault in this situation, and none of the groups should’ve escalated that situation which in the end turned into something bad.