What happened Saturday in Washington on the Steps of the Lincoln Memorial?
As the nation prepared to observe the
birth of Martin Luther King, Jr. this weekend, while a partial government
shutdown over a border wall, other news caught our attention. This had to do
with a set of encounters as separate marches and protests collided on or near the steps
of the Lincoln Memorial. You may have seen or heard of a viral video that
appeared to show a young man clad in MAGA clothing, with what appears to be a
smirk on his face, standing in the face of a Native American man singing and
drumming. Many jumped on this sight and proclaimed the young man to be a racist
and that he was being disrespectful. Thus, this young white male was deemed a poster child of
white supremacy. It didn’t help that he represented a Catholic school and he and
his fellow students were attending an anti-abortion march. All of this—the Trump
gear, the anti-abortion purpose for the visit, and attendant visuals cast the
high school students in a bad light. As more information came out, the story
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