They were Native American, Caucasian and African American; old, young and middle-aged. When a Native American elder intervened, singing and playing a prayer song, he found himself face to face with that dark-haired teen, whose frozen smile struck some as nervousness and others as arrogance. Tribal elder Nathan Phillips, 64, stands before Nick Sandmann, a high school student from Covington Catholic High School in Park Hills, Ky., near the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. High school students from Covington Catholic High School chant before a crowd of Native American activists Friday on the Mall. So were the Hebrew Israelites, who believe African Americans are God’s chosen people and the real descendants of the Hebrews of the Bible.

Source: Washington Post January 21, 2019 02:20 UTC