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Mike__M

(1,052 posts)
Mon Jan 28, 2019, 06:23 PM Jan 2019

It's about elimination: the Covington Catholic student incident

This is the best summing-up I've seen about the racism incident in DC last week.

Cutting to the Chase of the Covington Catholic Fiasco

January 28, 2019
By Dina Gilio-Whitaker
Beacon Broadside

[conclusion:]

It is the replaying of a centuries-old narrative. Native people standing their ground, peacefully or not, are a threat to the white settler population and are, therefore, assailable. The assault is always justifiable, and accountability is absent. White Catholic school boys—like their interloping pioneer ancestors before them—are thus painted as the innocent victims while Nathan Phillips is the degraded Native—the savage, a liar, always suspect, undeserving of a legitimate perspective, let alone an apology.

Until the US accounts for its history at every level of society, this scenario will play out relentlessly, in endless configurations.
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It's about elimination: the Covington Catholic student incident (Original Post) Mike__M Jan 2019 OP
And THAT is the truth. ...nt 2naSalit Jan 2019 #1
Very important article! Wish those who most need its truth would read it bobbieinok Jan 2019 #2

bobbieinok

(12,858 posts)
2. Very important article! Wish those who most need its truth would read it
Mon Jan 28, 2019, 08:22 PM
Jan 2019

Anyone suppose CovCath would require reading this article in a required history course?!

Suuure!

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