The Washington Post has settled the lawsuit brought by Nicholas Sandmann over the incident involving an activist who tried to provoke a group of Catholic high school teenagers. Details of the settlement were not announced. It is likely to be in the tens of millions.
These teenagers had marched in support of the right to life for all unborn children in Washington, DC. When confronted with the provocations of a group of black Israelites, they responded with restraint, integrity, confidence, maturity and courage.
Tom Woods notes,
At the beginning of the two-hour video that eventually surfaced (and I watched the entire thing), we see the Black Hebrews taunting the native Americans gathered at the Lincoln Memorial (where the students had gathered at the conclusion of the march, and where by coincidence some Native Americans were having a gathering of their own). “You[‘re] not supposed to worship eagles, buffalos, rams, all types of animals! This is the reason the Lord took away your land!” one of them bellows.
Gee, I wonder what we would have been discussing if those school kids had been shouting things like that.
A woman who may have been with the native American gathering (it’s unclear from the video) approached the Black Hebrews to dispute their position. One of the men turned to the camera and said, “This is the problem, Israel; it’s always our women coming up with they [sic] loud mouth…thinking they can come and distract things with they [sic] loud-ass mouth, cause they [sic] not used to dealing with no [sic] real men.”
Imagine if the school kids had addressed a woman like that.
The native Americans were later told, “You think there’s Uncle Tom? You’re an Uncle Tomahawk. You got your head up the white man’s ass! You say peace? There ain’t gonna be no peace!”
The video also showed a black man shouting at the Black Hebrews. The Black Hebrews responded, “You got all these racist bastards — you nigger! you nigger! — all these crackers with these racist-ass Make America Great Again hats on, and you want to get violent with us? Get your Uncle Tom ass out of here!”
Meanwhile, for a solid hour the students endured language like: “You little dirty-ass crackers, your day coming!” “Dusty-ass animals!” “Bunch of child-molesting faggots!” The kids are also compared to “dogs” and “hyenas.”
Astonishingly, the kids kept their cool.
Nobody reading the mainstream press had any idea that these things had been said. Now suppose it had been the school kids who had been comparing the Black Hebrews to dogs and hyenas. Think we might have heard about it then?
Then the students were told that only whites shoot up schools, and that they themselves “look like they [sic] about to shoot up a school right now!”
The kids, who had gathered to listen by that point, showed remarkable restraint by walking away.
The students passed the time (and drowned out the Black Hebrews) with some school sports cheers.
It was in this context that Nathan Phillips, a native American, entered the scene, banging a drum and marching into the crowd of students.
So note: Phillips’ people were repeatedly insulted and mocked by the Black Hebrews, while a group of school kids minded their own business. So, being the courageous man he evidently is, Phillips confronted…
…the school kids.
You cannot make this up.
Phillips later told the media that the students “were in the process of attacking these four black individuals.” “There was that moment,” he went on, “when I realized I’ve put myself between beast and prey. These young men were beastly and these old black individuals was their prey, and I stood in between them and so they needed their pounds of flesh and they were looking at me for that.”
Not one word of that story is true, we know from the video. Nobody was attacking anybody. The Black Hebrews themselves had threatened people, it’s true, but the students? Not a single threatening word.
Various media outlets had smeared Sandmann among others with their coverage. Lawsuits were filed against eight different media outlets over the defamatory coverage. CNN had previously settled. On Friday WaPo became the second media outlet who did not want to leave the verdict to the courts. Finally another media outlet is being held accountable for their biased coverage of the incident.
On 2/19/19, I filed $250M defamation lawsuit against Washington Post. Today, I turned 18 & WaPo settled my lawsuit. Thanks to @ToddMcMurtry & @LLinWood for their advocacy. Thanks to my family & millions of you who have stood your ground by supporting me. I still have more to do.
— Nicholas Sandmann (@N1ckSandmann) July 24, 2020
Thank you, Nicholas! You are a David who took on multiple Goliaths. Thank you for your courage in standing up for what is right. With a lot of prayer and great lawyers you have helped to expose the defamation that masquerades as journalism today.
Sandmann’s situation was eye-opening for many people who hadn’t understood just how biased the majority of the media have become. Hopefully this is a first step in reining in “Fake News” and the Cancel Culture. Hopefully it is a needed step to ending the promoting of slander by the media.