The Original Tree
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Typical of our media these days. They attacked these kids, just because of the hats some of them wore and they got the story completely wrong. Also like to give Sandman some credit for the approach he took which was to try to come between the whacked out left, and a bunch of students who were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time caught between two protest groups.
Kentucky student seen in viral confrontation with Native American speaks out
However, Sandmann said, the students were confronted by four members of the Black Hebrew Israelite movement, who "called us 'racists,' 'bigots,' 'white crackers,' 'f----ts,' and 'incest kids.' They also taunted an African-American student from my school by telling him that we would 'harvest his organs.'"
Sandmann said one of the students asked a teacher chaperoning the trip for permission to "begin our school spirit chants" to drown out the hecklers.
In one chant, the group appeared to perform the haka, a traditional Maori dance. Marcus Frejo, a member of the Pawnee and Seminole tribes who witnessed the chant, said he considered it mockery.
"At no time did I hear any student chant anything other than the school spirit chants," Sandmann said. "I did not witness or hear any other students chant 'build that wall' or anything hateful or racist at any time. Assertions to the contrary are simply false."
At that point, Phillips came toward the group with his drum and, according to Sandmann, "locked eyes with me and approached me, coming within inches of my face" and "played his drum the entire time he was in my face."
Sandmann said he was trying to defuse the tense situation by remaining "motionless and calm." He also denied taunting Phillips by making faces at him, but said he smiled at the protester "because I wanted him to know I was not going to become angry, intimidated or be provoked into a larger confrontation."
Kentucky student seen in viral confrontation with Native American speaks out
However, Sandmann said, the students were confronted by four members of the Black Hebrew Israelite movement, who "called us 'racists,' 'bigots,' 'white crackers,' 'f----ts,' and 'incest kids.' They also taunted an African-American student from my school by telling him that we would 'harvest his organs.'"
Sandmann said one of the students asked a teacher chaperoning the trip for permission to "begin our school spirit chants" to drown out the hecklers.
In one chant, the group appeared to perform the haka, a traditional Maori dance. Marcus Frejo, a member of the Pawnee and Seminole tribes who witnessed the chant, said he considered it mockery.
"At no time did I hear any student chant anything other than the school spirit chants," Sandmann said. "I did not witness or hear any other students chant 'build that wall' or anything hateful or racist at any time. Assertions to the contrary are simply false."
At that point, Phillips came toward the group with his drum and, according to Sandmann, "locked eyes with me and approached me, coming within inches of my face" and "played his drum the entire time he was in my face."
Sandmann said he was trying to defuse the tense situation by remaining "motionless and calm." He also denied taunting Phillips by making faces at him, but said he smiled at the protester "because I wanted him to know I was not going to become angry, intimidated or be provoked into a larger confrontation."
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