Left-Wing Media Is Ruining My High School

[Dill]

(01-21-2019, 03:26 PM)THE Bigzoman Wrote: Except again, he wasn't doing it to pass.

If you look at an unedited version of the stream showing the events in real time, you see that Phillips had a clear path to his destination around the crowd that he could've taken.

He instead opts to go to the crowd and play his drum.

As I understand it, his goal was not to go "around" the crowd, but to get between them and the Hebrew Israelites, from which point he would chant healing prayers in the hopes of diminishing tension.  That was his story, anyway.

It looks to me like at least some of the teens began imitating his singing. That seems rather careless. Those using the tomahawk chop were, it appears, mocking him, as Trump supporters often do to Elizabeth Warren. That isn't ok because Hebrew Israelites 50 yards away were calling them "crackers" and "incest brood."  

I don't think the teen standing there smiling in his face was "just smiling" or "just standing there." In the US we normally don't get right up in the face of someone playing a musical instrument and singing. The teen's story is now that he too was trying to defuse tension, but I am not buying it. Looks to me like he is in the guy's face to be rude. Were I a chaperone, my response would not have been "He has a right to stand there and 'just' smile in that elderly man's face." My first thought would have been to disengage them from the situation--especially when I saw the tomahawk chops.

All the chanting and the guy ripping off his shirt, the tomahawk chops--none of that seems a particularly good response to the situation. This is certainly a teaching moment, so I do ask-- where were the chaperones?