Native American At Center Of MAGA Student Incident Has History Of Claiming Racism, Disrespect By Students
By RYAN SAAVEDRA
January 21, 2019
The Native American man at the center of the controversy involving a group of Trump-supporting high school boys from Covington Catholic High School in Kentucky has a history of claiming disrespect and racism by students.
Nathan Phillips of Ypsilanti claimed in April 2015 that a group of students at Eastern Michigan University (EMU) were "racist" toward him after he approached them while they were participating in an American Indian theme party.
"They had little feathers on, I was just going to walk by," Phillips claimed. "A group of them said 'Come on over, come here.'"
"Then started whooping and hollering," Phillips continued. "I said that wasn't honoring, that was racist. Then at that time, it really got ugly."
Phillips claimed that the students yelled racial slurs at him and threw a beer can at him.
"[They said] 'Go back to the reservation, you blank Indian,'" he said.
Phillips says that he called the police and that by the time they showed up "it was like there was no party there at all."
Fox 2 Detroit asked Phillips why he decided to approach the students and why he didn't walk away.
"For me just to walk by and have a blind eye to it," Phillips said, "something just didn't allow me to do it."
Phillips said that there was "a lot of hate behind" the incident and said he would "pray for them that they will see a better way."
The alleged incident from 2015 mirrors some aspects of the incident that happened over the weekend.
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