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JUST IN: "I am the student in the video who was confronted by the Native American protestor," Nick Sandmann, a junior at Covington Catholic High School, announces in statement Sunday night, as he denounces what he calls "outright lies" about the incident. nbcnews.to/2FS9Ron
The native protestors approached the teens, Sandmann says: "I never interacted with this protestor. I did not speak to him. I did not make any hand gestures or other aggressive moves ... I believed that by remaining motionless and calm, I was helping to diffuse the situation."
"I am mortified that so many people have come to believe something that did not happen — that students from my school were chanting or acting in a racist fashion toward African Americans or Native Americans." nbcnews.com/news/us-news/y…
WATCH: @JoyAnnReid interviewed the native protester, Nathan Phillips, on Sunday about the incident with Covington Catholic High School students at the Lincoln Memorial. msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/n…
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Thread: On Covington Catholic, etc.

1. What have we been saying about using the 48-hour rule when dealing with the legacy media? The Covington Catholic #fakenews incident after the March for Life is the latest exemplar.
2. Reminder: the 48-hour rule states that, “Whenever the legacy media break a breathless supposedly bombshell story, one should wait at least 48 hours afterward to comment when the rest of the story is made known.”
3. We witnessed days of breathless excoriations of those students by the Left – as well as virtue-signaling by supposedly conservative media like National Review piling on. And all of the vile tweets from the brainless zombies on the Left! And threats to the school & families!
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1) I've tweeted already about why the contrition & apologies towards the #Covington kids is misplaced and wrong. But their Trump-inspired racism & bullying is not new - we've seen this in schools across the country since Trump's emergence in 2015. Here's some evidence:
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2) In March 2016, high school basketball fans in Indiana chanted ‘Build A Wall’ at their Latino opponents.
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3) In April 2016, in Wisconsin, a girls soccer team, a majority of which were black and Latina, were taunted by opposing students who chanted: “Donald Trump, build that wall".
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Arlen Parsa
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Hey Twitter, we need to have a talk.

Last night I learned & confirmed the name of the "main student" from the #CovingtonCatholic incident. The kid grinning in front of the Native elder.

Hop in this thread because I'm going to walk you through some deep but important stuff. 1/?
Finding the #CovingtonCatholic student's identity was not easy.

He is not pictured in any of the school's many (many!) pics of student athletes on their website, apparently because he doesn't play sports.

But I sifted through a lot. Because I was so upset at that video.
I have reviewed the student's Facebook account, seen family photos, and even talked with another student who knows him.

The ID is 100% iron-clad.
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Nick Monroe
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I was watching this video waiting for a moment where the kids at #CovingtonCatholic did something truly outrageous, like getting into a physical altercation.

But there's none of that in this video. All I see is stupid kids WHO DON'T KNOW ANY BETTER, NOT KNOWING ANY BETTER.
But apparently, SOME SCHOOL STUDENTS MAKING IDIOTIC COMMENTS **TO THEMSELVES** is enough for the internet to attack them.
What the fuck is Anna Merlan of Jezebel doing? ruining the lives of children?
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Arlen Parsa
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All-boy schools like Covington Catholic High School of Kentucky, featured in this terrible video harassing a Native American elder, give me a bad vibe in general.

Like, how does living in an artificially gender-segregated society help prepare you for the real world? It doesn't.
Looking through the Covington Catholic school website (which features a ton of student pics) it's easy to see that it's an almost exclusively white school too.

A lot whiter than the area the school is based in. It's a school for the wealthy (tuition can cost up to $9,000/year).
These are photos of the Covington Catholic High School basketball team (the school in the Native American harassment video) vs the local public school kids at Holmes High School, 4 miles away.

It's extremely clear who @CovCathColonels is meant for.
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Maggie Jordan
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Covington Catholic students.
Since @CovCathColonels made their account private after this post here’s their phone number (859) 491-2247.
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Response to yesterday’s mockery at the hand of ‘Catholic’ high school students
. @SupMikeClines twitter account is still open
@FrJacobStraub account is now protected, as is the school’s account
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