Can someone explain to me what the controversy is? All I've seen is a small clip and the kid is just smirking and trying not to laugh when some old guy is drumming in his face... also he is wearing a MAGA hat.. something else must have happened for there to be this much outrage.
what's the inside baseball?
To sum it up
A group of "black hebrews" antagonizes the kids, including calling the N word to one of the students (but they're black, so free pass)
Some of the kids reply (apparently with stuff like clinton did jail a lot of black youth etc, you know because they were being antagonized for being pro-trump)
The native american walks up to the kids and starts drumming
The front kids start dancing at the rythm of the drums
The native american gets closer on the face of that one kid, because he didn't seem to like that. Add lines like "go back to Europe, this is not your land" being audible. referring to the kids.
*photo with perfectly framed kid and native american on the edge on the photo*
HEADLINE: GROUP OF MAGA KIDS SURROUND NATIVE AMERICAN VIETNAM VET.
-attempt to get that one kid expelled.
-attempt to get that one kid out of college applications.
-attempt to dox the kid by publications like the NYTimes.
-general internet mob against that one kid.
-mass hysteria in general.
When that one kid was just awkwardly smiling while a guy felt he had the right to drum next to his eardrums.
One day after being presented with evidence that the kid did nothing wrong, they're still conflating the whole group behaviour to that one scapegoat kid and still riding the moral highground. JLC did the right thing here.