Even after a full-length video showing Native American activist Nathan Phillips and a hate group known as the Black Hebrew Israelites blatantly confronting and harassing the Nick Sandmann, NBC News still insists that Sandmann was somehow at fault. The MSM has somehow managed to maintain the narrative that Philips, who has since been exposed for lying about his service in Vietnam, was the victim of racially motivated harassment.
During a segment on Thursday’s Today Show, the network once again lent a microphone to Philips, who used his time to scold Sandmann and his fellow Covington Catholic students while insisting that they undergo “some kind of sensitivity training.” Phillips added that, though their behavior “upset” him, he would like to “forgive” Sandmann and his peers.
After attending a “traditional prayer ceremony”, Philips said he “woke up with all kinds of good feelings in my heart” and that this had softened his anger toward the Covington kids.
What was your reaction to Nick Sandmann’s interview? –@savannahguthrie
“I was upset.” -Phillips pic.twitter.com/wG3K5f2i4M
— TODAY (@TODAYshow) January 24, 2019
Asked if Phillips felt he was owed an apology, he accused the teenagers of racism toward Native American tribes. “If there’s an apology there would be an apology for his own behavior to other people besides me…I’d be way down in the list.”
“Do you think he should’ve apologized?” @savannahguthrie asks Nathan Phillips about Nick Sandmann pic.twitter.com/TV13kfaNSW
— TODAY (@TODAYshow) January 24, 2019
Since NBC had asked Sandmann the same question, they also asked Phillips if he feels he should have walked away…to which Phillips replied that he was trying to walk away.
“I asked the young man this question. I’ll ask you the same thing…Should you have walked away?” @savannahguthrie to Nathan Phillips
“That’s what I was trying to do.” -Phillips pic.twitter.com/pvdgLGw6G4
— TODAY (@TODAYshow) January 24, 2019
Shortly after the interview with Sandmann aired on NBC on Wednesday, video surfaced of Phillips and a group of Native American protesters interrupting a vigil mass at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington – the country’s largest Catholic Church – to demand that the church take action to punish the boys, and also that it provide “reparations” for Native American people.
When the protesters attempted to enter the building, security personnel shut them out, according to the Daily Caller.
After being introduced to the crowd of protesters as “Uncle Nate”, Phillips read prepared remarks to the crowd:
We demand that the students of Covington Catholic High School be reprimanded – not just by the school officials as seniors, but by their upcoming universities.
We demand the Catholic Church hold themselves responsible for the hundred-plus years of genocide that our indigenous people have endured – and still persist through – by [implementing] the following: with reparations of land and restorations to the indigenous peoples in the U.S. and across the world.
We demand that the Catholic Church revoke the papal bulls related to the doctrine of discovery, which laid the foundation for religious prejudice and the dehumanization of indigenous peoples.
