The whole story: Before and after video of Nathan Phillips, #MAGAyouth and more

Regarding to Nathan Phillips' remarks at the end- Yeah we know how it ended for the Native Americans. The European settlers had defensive fortification walls (clearly not "medieval" as some considered for the present day border wall). Never had prison? Tying up and confining someone as a captor or punishment is the definition of imprisonment.

The words written do not match what is shown in the video. It says that the boy stepped in front of Nathan Phillips when the video clearly shows that he singled out and started drumming right in the boys face. At first the boy seemed confused and awkwardly smiled and then he realized that Mr. Phillips was acting in a very aggressive and intimidating manner and decided to stand his ground. Fake news! What a shameful display of journalism.

The whole time the elder was drumming, the kid could have moved back. There was plenty of room.

Thank you for posting the additional videos. With respect to the first video, I am struck wondering why the students were seemingly unsupervised for nearly 2 hours in front of the Lincoln Memorial where they traded insults and taunts with the Black Israelite group.

As Mr. Phillips wisely asked: Where were the teachers, parents, and chaperones? Why did they fail their young people?

I swear Nathan Phillips is an angel to have taken on such a hostile environment with such love, kindness, and compassion in the midst of disrespect and oppression. He cared so much for these people (both the Black Israelites and MAGA supporters) and tried to calm down the hostility in the atmosphere with prayer and compassion. He has such a beautiful soul that he still calls these people relatives, even after all the mockery. Mad props to Mr. Phillips. I wish he'd run for president, he'd have my vote!

“Nathan Phillips continues to sing and pray, and this is when the high school student steps in front of Phillips and doesn't move.”

That's a damn lie. The kid is just standing there and Nathan walks to him.

you liars. The indigenous man sought out and came right up to kids minding their own business. he moved right up into that kids face and didn't back down. total fakery and total bullsh*t from you. your are just another media lying shill outfit., all b/c those boys wore MAGA hats. If they had Pussy hats on... this guy would not have walked up to them for sure@!!

One more story to make the Indigenous look like the "good" victim and the Whites as the perps. Seriously people?? If that were a White Elder going into an Indigenous crowd to "prevent" things from escalating, there would be hell to pay and a great deal of mud slung at the White as being an interference with their protest. There is no need for an apology except from the Elder who was obviously baiting, even race baiting. It is all in their own blame/victim/race card playing perception. I did not hear or see the protestors being ignorant, racist or mocking even making racist remarks unlike the Indigenous protestors were doing to the Catholic boys as they do to most "Whites" which I have even encountered from some Indigenous. Many Aboriginals make hateful racist remarks against Whites and it is purely acceptable? This is inequality and totally BS!! I have watched the video over and over to make an equal observation and I have found that the news media and many Aboriginals have blown this out of proportion to their own favor. It is anyone's perception that the boys were taunting, chanting, smirking when in reality it was the elder who interfered and started banging his drum and chanting. Why is it that the Aboriginals are always seen as being the "good" guy and the Whites always seen as the perps. Whereas, in this instance, it is clear, as in many cases, the Aboriginal and his supporters should have minded their own damn business. There is too much of crap going on in favor of the Aboriginals. Our freedom is being eroded while dick - taters (like this elder & his supporters) who make it look like they are as pure as the driven snow. Yet there is a great deal amount of racism, and disrespect for Whites or anyone who is not Aboriginal while many Aboriginals expect and demand respect which many have yet to earn including this elder. Just because you are an elder does not give you the right to be ignorant and disrespectful which in turn gives you no rights to be respected!! Fudge!!!

Oh PLEEEEEAAAAASE!!!

“Nathan Phillips continues to sing and pray, and this is when the high school student steps in front of Phillips and doesn't move.”

Not what happened. He walks up to the boy and bangs a drum in his face.

This whole report is a nonsense.

MAGA HATS are the new WHITE HOODS. Make no mistake.

Nathan Phillips LIED, he is a disgrace to his cause and the US army should be ashamed of such an unscrupulous veteran. Nathan Philips is as vacuous as he is duplicitous, he exploited the media but he never considered the possibility of other video recordings implicating him.

Minding our own Damn business got us people like you. Why do think you deserve respect? For being white? Ain't white washing no more.

It isnr white washing to respect someone and you have inly yourself to blame for who you are and how you act. Cant blame anyone for that. Respect is a human thing doesn't matter what skin color you are. It is common sense. People in general deserves respect when it should be given. You think you deserve respect....by what you said it would seem not

This is garbage reporting. In none of the videos do you hear anything supporting the "build the wall" chants. You don't diffuse a situation by confronting the people who are having racial slurs and threats hurled at them. Phillips was out of line as he has been on many occasions. I understand that he is one of your identity politics intersectional hierarchy group and you want to protect him. I also respect the service he gave to our country. None of this excuses his actions or how he represented this to the media. He victimized the innocent. You are praising him for it. You should be ashamed.

@Nishe100. You are a racist bigot. You brought race into the conversation. Kstickel said EVERY human deserves respect, not white people deserve respect, not brown people, not green or blue people, ALL people deserve respect. What I would like to know is what made people like YOU? You and your words eliminate that respect. You are the "beast" Phillips described that child as. You should be ashamed of yourself.

This Native American Elder, a “Holder of the Pipe” has a recorded history of lying to support the leftist, socialist agenda. Do Native Americans no longer consider lying dishonorable? He lied while, as he stated, singing a song to his ancestors. Is that not dishonoring his ancestors, too? He lied about everything that took place, as proven by the numerous videos recorded during the incident. As a Elder representing the Native American tribes, he acted dishonorably. Do none of you feel shame at that? Will none of you speak out against that?

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Well stated from a friend: "I posted about this when it first happened and I haven’t shared anything on my wall since but I’ve been participating in other people’s discussions and watching lots of videos, etc. I was going to spend time this morning writing up a longer version of what I’ve seen and my conclusions about it all when someone thankfully shared this and I realized I can share it and let this person do the summary instead. This is what I’ve seen.

I will say that the group this person doesn’t know how to identify is part of the fringe group of Black Hebrew Israelites and I have encountered this group at every march or rally I’ve been to in the last probably5-7 years. They are hate filled and angry - usually spewing anti-Semitic rhetoric about Jews not being the real Jews because they are The Real Jews! And they really don’t like anyone with white skin at all. They have been determined to be a hate group according to the Southern Poverty Law Center and the reason no one can say exactly who this group is is because they have different local groups all over and go by different names as part of a movement. I will point out that the kids’ mother who jumped to his defense after the fact said they were “Black Muslims” and I am going to say that her response was inherently racist and reflective of the MAGA mentality about black People and their fear of Muslims.

Beyond that I will add this... several people have tried to defend the kid in the standoff with “he was uncomfortable” and here is my response to that:

Discomfort is expressed in different ways and those ways are determined by and reflect who you are and who you believe you are in relation to the person or thing causing your discomfort. Humility defers to an elder who is not being aggressive or threatening by stepping aside and allowing passage. Arrogance postures, peacocks and stares down. This is what this boy did and it is consistent with the racist undertones and micro and macro aggressions shown by those who don the MAGA hat.

I would caution against allowing your gut’s first impression (always accurate even if not always expressed appropriately) to be silenced by your logic brain and the excuses and justifications that have been offered for the behavior of these children. It is inherently racist and offensive even in light of the greater context."

All people -- black, white, brown, native. -- really need to take a stand for the truth. There is so much untruth here. It is the lies that are tearing our nation apart.

I applaud the fact that you at least post different viewpoints of this story. But people are judging these kids based on headwear, skin color, and religion. They are judging them based on their response in a situation they did not understand and could not remove themselves from ( they were waiting for a bus to take them home to Northern KY, they kind of had to stay put). Do you even know where they are from? Do you even know Native American history of this area? If you did you would know there are no reservations, no nearby nations, Shawnee and Cherokee are at least a couple hundred miles away. Cain-Tuck-Ee. The dark and bloody ground where Native Americans would not live. Therefore, we do not have the tensions and activism hete that other areas of the country have. Furthermore, people here brag about Native American ancestry because there is a lot of it. My son's great great grandfather was a Blackfoot. The Native Americans living here are just people like anyone else. We have festivals where Native groups do their thing, people don't harass them. I think generally we respect Native Americans and Catholics certainly stand in solidarity with oppressed, displaced and impoverished people of all types and colors. I believe you are attributing to these boys thinking that is just outside of their knowledge base. They simply did not understand, pure and simple. They are boys who thought Mr. Phillips might be joining them in solidarity but then didn't know what was going on when he got up to the kid's face. THAT was confrontational. Is that a "thing" where you live? Does it have some meaning to you? All it means to us is someone trying to intimidate and these kids stood their ground. If you REALLY think they were disrespectful maybe Mr. Phillips shpuld contact the school and apologize for being intimidating and start a dialogue. It is never a bad thing when people get educated on reasons why they protest.

Atheism on all sides would clean this nonsense right up. Discover critical thinking, reasoning and science people. Every group in here bases their beliefs on myths and fairy tales. There is no empirical evidence to support a God of any sort. This is how bloodshed is spilled by the hands of the believers everywhere who have no clue how to believe in truth and reality. Stop with the Christians, Muslims, black groups, white groups, indians. This is all about "you must believe as I do or it will be necessary for me to kill you. This is what has been wrong with the human existence since it started. Everyone's angry because one side must be right and the other side must be wrong. It's all bullshit kids, so stop with the damn nonsense of it all. Atheism cures ALL forms of religious terrorism!

Just apologize to the kids already. Only the most idology-wracked hacks still believe the narrative you describe after see the Black Israelites full 2hr video.

"In the second video, already seen in parts or the whole by the world, and as described in the video, “Nathan Phillips continues to sing and pray, and this is when the high school student steps in front of Phillips and doesn't move.”

WRONG

The student in question is standing when Phillips walks up to him and doesn't move. I have replied in tweets so many times to Vincent Shilling and now I have to write a reply to share this

Why can't a story be revised when the facts come out?

I've read so many tweets calling for violence on this teenager and his family and twitter says its not against their policy on violence and won't remove them.

I watched the original edited video when this first came out (I didn't know it was conveniently edited at the time I saw it... the videographer made no mention of editing either). I was so angry at the students as I thought they dishonored a proud native/american and Veteran (I was seething). And then this morning, the other shoe falls & videos started being posted online from different devices... and I found myself redirecting my anger to Mr Philips after watching the entire complete videos.

Watch the 2 video's put out by the Black Israelites (the actual racists who were insulting the kids AND native/americans 50 - 75 ft away). I don't believe you've seen the below video (and why the Black Israelites posted their racist videos, who knows as it exposes their behavior as racist... not the kids). Mr. Philips (who DID instigate this) should have stood up to the racists, he picked on the kids instead (they must have seem an easier target). He obviously wanted to make a point (he did this 4 years ago also, in Michigan I believe). He walked over 75 ft INTO the crowd of kids (who were on the stairs - waiting for a bus with the Priest at the top of the stairs... and who was trying to keep the kids grouped together).
Mr Philips kept pushing further in (forcing the issue and the kids obviously didn't know what to do considering Philips raised his drum and beat it in front the the kids faces). I am a Veteran, and Mr. Philips has brought shame to himself. He lied to the media (blaming the kids). The evidence is in the below video. I recommend you post a retraction & apologize to the kids, (and hold Mr. Philips accountable for making a mountain out of a molehill and literally lying that the kids surrounded and mocked him). He is a grown man, and should admit his mistake.

All religions are full of untruths...beginning with zero evidence to support their origins as anything but a fairy tale. If this had been an area full of Atheists, there never would have been a problem, that's why the history of the world has millions of deaths over who is right about their religion being the "truthful" one when they are all full of crap.

This story need sections of it corrected and out right retracted. If you watch the full unedited video, you see who the REAL racists are, and you also see that Mr Phillips got in the face of a kid who had no idea what to do. Why didnt he confront the racists? Because he said later there was "truth" to what they were saying!!! I guess hes ok then with them telling the Native Americans that they were savages, and they lost their land because they worship totem poles. Oh but by all means, thats nothing compared to a MAGA hat. More and more people are seeing this video everyday, seeing the truth and sharing it. BE HONEST.

The REAL racist/bigots/antangonists/aggressors in this event are those so-called "Black Hebrews"!!! WHY ISN'T ANYONE GOING AFTER THEM? Are they INVISIBLE?????

The boy did not step in front of Phillips. To the contrary, it was Phillips that went out of his way to approach the boys, and ultimately beat his drum in that boy's face. Sandmann was standing still. Watch the entire video.