A video from the event on Friday was viral in the united states. It shows how a white student in a red baseball cap with Donald Trump’s slogan ”Make America great again” is in the middle towards the man and says some – hånler. The man, reported to be klanäldste in the north american indigenous peoples the Omaha Nation, drum and sing. Around jump and sing the other boys.
Several media outlets and organizations recognized the boy’s behavior as a provocation which aroused great anger. At the weekend asked the students ‘ catholic school in Kentucky apologized.
several films have emerged that indicate that the situation may have been more complex. The boys from Kentucky were visiting in Washington DC that among other things, participate in a demonstration against abortion. But at the famous lincoln memorial, on the other activists, of which one group is of the opinion that some black americans are the descendants of an ancient israelite clan.
First encountered the students of a group of men who obviously seemed to react to several of the boys bar Trumpkepsar. Several people made verbal tirade against the students and called them ”racists” and ”incestbarn”, according to news channel CNN that have gone through the video.
the Situation is reported to have become increasingly tense.
the first was understood to mock the drumming of the man – as in The Washington Post previously incorrectly presented as a Vietnamveteran – writes in a statement that one of his schoolmates asked the teachers for permission to sing the school’s supporter phrases, to drown out the activists who went on them. And it was in this moment that the man, who took part in a smaller demonstration, shall have appeared.
”By being uttryckslös and quiet, I hoped to make the situation more relaxed,” writes the student.
the Man has claimed that the students chanted, “build the wall”, something which the boy claims not occurred.
note that what occurred at the lincoln memorial is likely to be more complex than first thought: Issues of race, religion and ideology sammanflätades in a time of political tension and led to something that was viral, writes, for example, The New York Times.
Another aspect of the story is that one of the twitter accounts which helped to spread ursprungsvideon and the perception that the boys taunted the drumming of the man, now has been closed down by Twitter. It looked to belong to a teacher from California, but seems to have been from Brazil, reports CNN.
