It's about elimination: the Covington Catholic student incident

[Mike__M]

This is the best summing-up I've seen about the racism incident in DC last week.

Cutting to the Chase of the Covington Catholic Fiasco

January 28, 2019
By Dina Gilio-Whitaker
Beacon Broadside

[conclusion:]

It is the replaying of a centuries-old narrative. Native people standing their ground, peacefully or not, are a threat to the white settler population and are, therefore, assailable. The assault is always justifiable, and accountability is absent. White Catholic school boys—like their interloping pioneer ancestors before them—are thus painted as the innocent victims while Nathan Phillips is the degraded Native—the savage, a liar, always suspect, undeserving of a legitimate perspective, let alone an apology.

Until the US accounts for its history at every level of society, this scenario will play out relentlessly, in endless configurations.