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MAGA hats, Native Americans, peace and confronting evil.
Today is a day that the United States sets aside to remember Martin Luther King, Jr. He said these words …
“He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetuate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.”
This weekend, a video of boys in MAGA hats, smirking and mocking and yelling at Native American Nathan Phillips as he sang a song, erupted. People were angry. In less than a day, people began apologizing to the abusive boys and their chaperones,
Here’s a couple of things to know about the event, before the truth gets lost in the miasma of delusion that so many people in our country participate.
The Indigenous People’s March endpoint was a park near the Lincoln Memorial. Nathan Philips participated in it, along with the other people there. Some Black Israelites spent their time doing as many people who’d been to events in Washington D.C. had seen, yelling about their faith, spreading the message of their faith. Part of that involved them abusing and shouting at Native Americans, including telling indigenous people they lost their lands for worshipping totem poles instead of Yahweh. The Native peoples there endured this abuse.
There were a few hundred kids in ‘Make America Great Again’ hats and paraphernalia also at the Lincoln…