State of the Union — Race Relations — 2019
As I turned on my computer this past weekend, I saw once again three ethnically disparate groups of Americans disrespecting one another. One group was African-American, another was Native American, and finally, a group of Caucasian Americans all came together on the Washington Mall at the Lincoln Memorial. In a perfect storm that is so prevalent today when varying groups come together, anger and hate tend to be the outcome instead of patience, kindness, and a willingness to listen and try to understand the other group’s point of view.
The group of students from Covington Catholic High School was in Washington, DC to take part in the “Walk for Life” March. Their march happened to end at the Lincoln Memorial where an African-American group was preaching and inciting hate, and a Native American group was ending their “Indigenous Peoples March” which is their way of asking for fair and equal treatment. These coincidences allowed an excellent opportunity for the negative encounter which occurred. The red hats emblazoned “Make America Great Again” worn by some of the students attracted the ire of the Black House of Israel D.C demonstrators.
