In a statement released Sunday, Covington Catholic High School junior Nick Sandmann, who was shown over the weekend standing face-to-face with an indigenous…
In a statement released Sunday, Covington Catholic High School junior Nick Sandmann, who was shown over the weekend standing face-to-face with an indigenous man Friday in Washington, D. C., said the standoff took place after four African-American protesters said « hateful things » to Sandmann and a group of his classmates.
« They called us ‘racists,’ ‘bigots,’ ‘white crackers,’ ‘faggots’ and ‘incest kids.’ They also taunted an African-American student from my school by telling him that we would ‘harvest his organs.’ I have no idea what that insult means, but it was startling to hear, » Sandmann wrote.
The remark about harvesting organs may reference Jordan Peele’s horror-satire « Get Out, » a 2017 movie in which the black boyfriend of a white girl discovers her family is harvesting the organs of blacks.
The four African-American protesters near the Lincoln Memorial have been identified as members of the Black Hebrew Israelites.
In its magazine, « Intelligence Report, » the Southern Poverty Law Center calls the Black Hebrew Israelites a hate group that is « becoming more militant.
