Red
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The kids did not approach this man. He approached them, banging his drum and got right up into the face of the kid.
So these kids are pretty much get taunted and harrassed by this man, the one kid stand his ground. Others dance to his music, and then they are made out to be the bad guys here? Whats the proper action here? Run, move, bow?
Neither one of us was there, but the videos make it pretty clear who was in whose face. It's not fake news at all. Instead, it sounds like you saw what you wanted to see. It sounds like you're providing an alternative reality. Well, we see what we want to see I guess. The drummer was not there to cause anybody any trouble. It was an annual Indigenous People's March, and according to the drummer, they were exiting, not attempting to get in the face of the students at all. I saw an interview of the native drummer yesterday in which the drummer stated that once his exit was blocked by the smirking youth in the MAGA hat, he felt if he moved forward in such a way as to so much as touch the youth, that the crowd would have been all over him and physically harmed him.
https://www.inforum.com/news/govern...the-MAGA-hat-wearing-teens-who-surrounded-him
In an interview Saturday, Phillips, 64, said he felt threatened by the teens and that they suddenly swarmed around him as he and other activists were wrapping up the march and preparing to leave.
Phillips, who was singing the American Indian Movement song of unity that serves as a ceremony to send the spirits home, said he noticed tensions beginning to escalate when the teens and other apparent participants from the nearby March for Life rally began taunting the dispersing indigenous crowd.
A few people in the March for Life crowd began to chant "Build that wall, build that wall," he said.
"It was getting ugly, and I was thinking: 'I've got to find myself an exit out of this situation and finish my song at the Lincoln Memorial,' " Phillips recalled. "I started going that way, and that guy in the hat stood in my way and we were at an impasse. He just blocked my way and wouldn't allow me to retreat."
So, he kept drumming and singing, thinking about his wife, Soshana, who died from bone marrow cancer nearly four years ago, and the various threats that face indigenous communities around the world, he said.
"I felt like the spirit was talking through me," Phillips said.