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Sunday, January 20, 2019

Mob Mentality?


Omaha Tribal Dancer   (Air Force Photo)
During the recent Indigenous Peoples March at the Lincoln Memorial, a mob mentality seemed to threaten the peace.

A group of kids wearing Make America Great Again hats approached Nathan Phillips, “an Omaha elder who is also a Vietnam veteran and former director of the Native Youth Alliance.”

As Phillips tried to calm down some growing tension between them and a group of African-Americans, the MAGA group got in his face, allegedly chanting “build that wall, build that wall.”

Phillips kept his cool and later expressed the wish that all their “energy” could instead have been used to make “this country really really great.”

Resources
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/426160-haaland-condemns-students-behavior-toward-native-elder-at

Copyright January 20, 2019 by Linda Van Slyke   All Rights Reserved

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