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The Catholic Covington Confrontation

At an anti-abortion March for Life event in Washington, D.C. over the weekend, students from Catholic Covington High School (Kentucky) got into a heated confrontation with four members of a group known as the Black Hebrew Israelites and a small number of Native Americans whom were participants in an Indigenous Peoples March. Trying not to play sides (yet), here is what I can gather about what transpired. - Members of the Black Hebrew Israelites and Catholic Covington students hurling insults at one another. I hear differing stories on who started the back-and-forth. - Indigenous Peoples March participants, led by Vietnam veteran Nathan Phillips, attempted to intervene, coming between the two groups, hoping to defuse the situation. - Nathan Phillips began playing the drums and singing a song. Black Hebrew Israelites and Catholic Covington students uttered insults toward the Native Americans, while one Native told the March for Life supporters to "go back to Europe." So...