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Please describe the impact of their presence, putting aside the skin color of the parties involved. But at this point you're not just illiterate but instead blind if you watched the full video and think the high school kids wandered over to the Native's march, and not the other way around.
 
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Please describe the impact of their presence, putting aside the skin color of the parties involved.

I emphasized their clothing, not the color of their skin. The hats were what people reacted to, not that they were white. I never said or insinuated that the problem was their skin color.

But at this point you're not just illiterate but instead blind if you watched the full video and think the high school kids wandered over to the Native's march, and not the other way around.

The Indigenous People's march was already taking place on the mall before the cameras started filming. The kids wandered over from where the pro-life rally was taking place, which was several blocks away.

Again, they were heading to the meeting spot to be picked up, and noticed the exchanges taking place between the Black Israelites and Native Americans. It was, without a doubt, the Black Israelites who instigated and escalated matters. All I'm saying is the kids couldn't not have known the impact their paraphernalia would have had.
 
The funny thing is the pro-life rally was pretty damn large and received something akin to a blackout in coverage, other than being referenced in relation to the super-racist-catholic-proto-Kavanaughs.
 
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I emphasized their clothing, not the color of their skin. The hats were what people reacted to, not that they were white. I never said or insinuated that the problem was their skin color.

The Indigenous People's march was already taking place on the mall before the cameras started filming. The kids wandered over from where the pro-life rally was taking place, which was several blocks away.

Again, they were heading to the meeting spot to be picked up, and noticed the exchanges taking place between the Black Israelites and Native Americans. It was, without a doubt, the Black Israelites who instigated and escalated matters. All I'm saying is the kids couldn't not have known the impact their paraphernalia would have had.

What's wrong with their hats? Did they wear them knowing a march involving Native Americans would see them?

The kids were waiting at Lincoln Memorial for about an hour before the Native march, specifically that race-baiting drummer, approached them.
 
What's wrong with their hats? Did they wear them knowing a march involving Native Americans would see them?

Nothing's wrong with the hats in and of themselves. But the hats aren't neutral apparel, and you're delusional if you think they are.

And no, they probably didn't wear them anticipating that Native Americans would see them. But they could have taken them off at any time, and they didn't. That's a choice, and it's one they're entitled to. But then they should expect a dialogue.

The kids were waiting at Lincoln Memorial for about an hour before the Native march, specifically that race-baiting drummer, approached them.

The Indigenous People's march was already scheduled to visit all the memorials along the mall, I'm pretty sure. I'm not saying they intentionally interrupted or went to meet the Native Americans; but the Native Americans didn't go out of their way to approach the students either. They simply followed their route.

Finally, the Native Americans didn't initiate the whole affair. The Black Israelites did. The Atlantic story describes the Native Americans as trying to avoiding confrontation with the students, in fact.
 
What's neutral attire for baseball caps? Sports teams? Energy drink logos?

Why should they expect a dialogue for wearing those hats? And specifically, what is it about those hats that invokes a dialogue, particularly in the context of Native Americans? At what distance were they supposed to realize that Native Americans were approaching and replace their hatwear?

Did the man that played his drum in the face of that kid not initiate the specific confrontation that the media widely reported on?
 
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It was fucking bizarre. Just came out of nowhere - previous posts weren’t linked to it from what I saw and then TB posted a picture of Omni. And now the entire thread is gone!

I still don’t fully understand everything. I got the general idea of the situation, but have no idea how TB got hold of those messages that were between CIG and Omni (I think?).
 
I worked a 20 hour day yesterday so I completely missed it. But I totally called TechBarb being the kind of person on this forum that would be the first to dox and gossip about people behind their back.
 
I worked a 20 hour day yesterday so I completely missed it. But I totally called TechBarb being the kind of person on this forum that would be the first to dox and gossip about people behind their back.
actually you clueless fuck, i posted pictures of him trying to dox me by posting my name, pictures of my family home etc before i went full on and exposed him. Even mentioned your comment where you referred to him as a serial liar. That's one thing you definitely did call. And its funny, because he loved talking shit about you too(and literally everyone else here except one person). I have it all saved.
 
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What's neutral attire for baseball caps? Sports teams? Energy drink logos?

Why should they expect a dialogue for wearing those hats? And specifically, what is it about those hats that invokes a dialogue, particularly in the context of Native Americans? At what distance were they supposed to realize that Native Americans were approaching and replace their hatwear?

If you really want to get into it, nothing's neutral. But people are far less likely to react to an energy drink logo than a MAGA hat. Wearing a hat that says "Make America Great Again" is analogous to walking around with a sign that says "god hates fags" or "eat the rich." It places the wearer within a political dialogue, and the wearer almost certainly knows that (or should know it).

Did the man that played his drum in the face of that kid not initiate the specific confrontation that the media widely reported on?

The "specific confrontation" you're speaking of doesn't make any sense unless you situate it in context. Nobody was blameless, and everybody had some part to play in what ensued.

First it was the photo and severely edited video; then it was the longer videos. The longer videos don't have the effect of reversing blame or responsibility, they simply inform that (and maybe how) it should be redistributed.

Those kids were out of their depth, for sure; and a lot of them, if not all of them, probably didn't understand the full weight of what was going on around them. But this is how they learn. Unfortunately, the far-right and their fucking bible-thumping parents are trying to make sure they don't learn anything. Sad.