In 2019, a viral video captured an encounter between Nicholas Sandmann, a Kentucky high school student wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat, and Nathan Phillips, a Native American activist, at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. As reported by USA Today, “A video of Sandmann, then 16 and a student at Covington Catholic in Northern Kentucky, standing nose to nose with Phillips went viral and unleashed a firestorm of internet criticism that the student’s conduct was racially motivated, which Sandmann denied.” — Read the rest
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