from w nyc in new york this is on the media brooke gladstone is off this week i'm bob garfield my position is

that i was not disrespectful to mr phillips i respect him i'd like to talk to him i mean in hindsight

i wish we could have walked away and avoided the whole thing.

But I can't say that I'm sorry for listening to him and standing there.

The MAGA kid, Nicholas Sandman, the not especially remorseful centerpiece,

of a week-long national nervous breakdown.

In a moment, some thoughts about where that episode has left us. You already know how it began.

The stair down between the high school student and the native elder was everywhere.

Newly elected Congresswoman Deb Holland is among the first Native Americans elected to Congress,

and she reacted on Twitter, writing, this veteran put his life on the

line for our country. The students display of blatant hate, disrespect, and intolerance

is a signal of how common decency has decayed under this administration. Heartbreaking.

The mainstream media quick reaction force was led by the Associated Press,

which reported that the kids were jeering at Phillips

and further passed along an accusation that moments earlier

the boys had been, quote, heckling a couple of black men nearby.

The headline for that story in the Chicago Tribune was

Catholic high school students in Maga H hats mock Native American after D.C.

Rally.

Look at some of these headlines.

The Hollywood Reporter, our students in Make America Great Again hats mocked Native Americans after Washington rally.

CNN.

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