fortune11 said:
well , who are you going to believe ? Conservative spindoctors on Fox or your own lying eyes
Here is another data point ... doesn?t need much explaining
Covington Catholic High students in blackface at past basketball game. And this video was on schools OWN YouTube account before it was taken down yesterday !
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-sports-covington-nathan-phillips-nick-sandmann-20190121-story.html?outputType=amp&__twitter_impression=true
So lets step on another landmine and blow the other foot off too, huh? No need for explanation or context just react with outrage to a posted picture from 2011?
MAGA-hatted teens, a Native American and the peril of instant judgment
Even all the footage that has emerged leaves considerable room for disagreement. It?s not hard to believe that Phillips and Sandmann each acted in a way he thought was responsible and constructive. It was obviously a messy, confusing situation.
But a couple of clear lessons can be drawn. One is that it?s dangerous to reach instant judgments based on images that lack context. Sometimes, video footage is invaluable in determining the truth. At other times, it makes something complicated look simple.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/editorials/ct-edit-video-teen-native-american-racist-covington-20190121-story.html
The Trib, (no right wing publication) and I know Gateway is right but the points are all valid...Look at all things with context and try not to react to a posting that has been up for 7 years and no one saw anything wrong with it till now.
Number one: The article claims that the photo is from 2015, but it's apparently from 2011. So despite the article's contention that the photo "won?t help Kentucky student Nick Sandmann?s case," it has nothing to do with him or any of the other kids who were in D.C. for the March for Life. They would have been in elementary school at the time.
Number two: It's called a "blackout" game, you dummies. This has been going on at school games since at least 2008, according to this New York Times report:
No team has pulled off the blackout with as much aplomb as baseball?s White Sox last Tuesday night ? the same night that Middle Tennessee State?s football team celebrated an appearance on ESPN2 with a blackout of its own. Fans flipping channels might have thought the color had gone out on their flat screens.
With a day?s notice, a crowd of 40,354 arrived in black at U.S. Cellular Field for a tie-breaker game with the Twins. The team handed out 40,000 black towels.
It cast a fresh, eerie and somewhat intimidating backdrop to Chicago?s 1-0 victory.
?When you had all the fans in black, waving their towels, it almost looked like a stadium full of bats,? said Brooks Boyer, the team?s vice president and chief marketing officer.
The fans loved it, and hope that a tradition has been born.
It was a fun new tradition until the Trumpy Covington Catholic High School kids did it, apparently. Then it became a deplorable minstrel show proving once and for all that the high school is full of irredeemable racists.
Number Three: Adam Fatkin, a former Covington Catholic High School student who went on to play basketball for Rockhurst University, said the black guy in the picture wasn't being racially taunted. In fact, he was a good friend.
"This picture is being completely taken out of context. The player in this photo is my former teammate and like a brother to me. He lived with me for ~3 years. He is not being harassed because the color of his skin.No, they were there in order to cheer against the opposing team, us. If I remember correctly it was a black out game, as a result they were decked out in black. I?m simply saying that you?re taking this picture out of context. You went back and found this picture from 2011 and using it in order to fit a certain narrative.When he used it as his profile picture and posted it on instagram ~8 years ago no one had any problem then. There wasn?t a problem because everyone looked at it for what it is, a student section yelling at an opposing player, that?s it"
https://pjmedia.com/trending/fake-news-media-doubles-down-with-another-covington-catholic-maga-teen-smear/
https://youtu.be/8EwcYwax4Oo
https://youtu.be/8EwcYwax4Oo
