Covington High School Issue

[Sociopathicsteelerfan]

(01-23-2019, 12:14 AM)bfine32 Wrote: There was a thread started on this earlier that much like the government got shutdown. My apologies to the OP (Brad) if I had anything to do with it. But I do feel it's a subject that deserves discussion and I suppose we should try to do it in a manner the Mods condone.

Seems the Covington Catholic School was canceled today because of security threats:
https://www.yahoo.com/gma/backlash-lincoln-memorial-confrontation-220515362.html

Many of these threats are likely from a truncated video and Mr Phillips assertion that he was surrounded and fearful.

Not happy with the fact that the longer video seemed to absolve the kids of any wrong doing there suddenly becomes an issue of the kids dressing up in "black face" and yelling at a black player at a basketball game 7 years ago:
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/covington-catholic-students-blackface-race-issues_us_5c472a2de4b0a8dbe1752db5

Never mind that the kids entire bodies were painted in black for a theme night and they were a couple of the few kids that were not yelling in the image.

It has further been brought to light that Mr Phillips in not a Vietnam Veteran (not Phillips fault) as many media outlets continue to refer to him as.

My initial response was the Elder did nothing wrong, but the more that is discovered and the more the story changes; I'm beginning to question my initial view.

I was literally writing this thread, when you posted this one.  Phillips absolutely did lie about serving in Vietnam, he literally said so in an interview with CNN.  

Mods, please fell free to merge these two threads, I don't see a reason for both of them.