What do you think when you see someone wearing one of these ?

@bijouxbroussard 'That's why it matters that they were young white men (the kids from Covington) representing the Christian faith supposedly for a march to emphasis the sanctity of all life -- while wearing those hats.'

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/01/21/opinions/maga-hat-has-become-a-potent-racist-symbol-bailey/index.html

@RodionRomanovitch Exactly. There were also two further reports—that their target was not the Native veteran initially, but a group of black students, and he got between the two groups. Their chaperone stated that the black students taunted them first (possibly because of the hats). But the other report was that kids from that same school were recently criticized for showing up at a local sports event in [b]blackface[/b].

So, as they say, you do the math. 😒

@bijouxbroussard I posted this in reply to somebody the other day. Regardless of all the spin since , it would seem that first impressions were basically correct. (I didn't watch the long video but the shorter Washington Post one at the end of the piece seems to just about cover all of it.)

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/making-sense-of-the-phillips-sandman-viral-video

@RodionRomanovitch That’s a good summary.