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CNN’s Kirsten Powers: Covington Students Called Classmate ‘N***er’ with Hand Gesture
Breitbart ^ | 22 Jan 2019 | Joshua Caplan

Posted on 01/22/2019 3:00:07 PM PST by detective

CNN political analyst and USA Today columnist Kirsten Powers bizarrely claimed on Monday that Covington Catholic High School students referred to a black classmate as a racial slur with silent hand gestures to their harassers — who were actually saying the word.

The alleged gesture occurred in the lead up to a confrontation between some of the school’s students and a Native American activist on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during Friday’s March for Life event in Washington, D.C.

Initial video of a confrontation between Covington Catholic High School junior Nick Sandmann and Native American activist Nathan Phillips created a firestorm of controversy on social media, with both left and right-wing media observers accusing the student of racism. Sandmann, donning a red Make America Great Again baseball cap, is seen smiling as he stands in front of Phillips, an elder with the Omaha tribe, who is beating a drum close to his face. Some of Sandmann’s classmates were laughing and making hand gestures in what some say were attempts to make fun of Phillips.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: cnn; covington; kirstenpowers; krazykirsten; nword; slur
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To: MeganC

Indeed! I also refute this notion that so called ‘racism’ is only possible from whites and that the country is inundated with it.


61 posted on 01/22/2019 4:05:37 PM PST by Altura Ct.
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To: MAGAthon
where are the headlines about the black Israelites?

Thet are just lying POSs. 😁🕎

62 posted on 01/22/2019 4:07:01 PM PST by Mark17 (Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning GOD.... And the rest, as they say, is HIS-story)
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To: Scott from the Left Coast

I can’t believe how fast the wheels are coming off.


63 posted on 01/22/2019 4:07:13 PM PST by KosmicKitty (Opportunities multiply as they are seized.)
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To: detective
Sue the Evil Bitch .
Attacking minors is an offense .
I hope this mentally ill TV hack ready for a lawsuit .
64 posted on 01/22/2019 4:20:04 PM PST by ncalburt (Gop DC Globalists out themselveking/its population here and Canada)
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To: detective; All

I just looked up Kirsten Powers on Google. On my iPhone, the first thing that comes up is a snapshot of her career and the first entry is ‘Kirsten Powers is an American PSYCHOPATH’. I kid you not!


65 posted on 01/22/2019 4:20:53 PM PST by originalbuckeye ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell.)
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To: MeganC

I hope they not only go after the networks but go after the talking heads personally as well. Leave them pennyless.


66 posted on 01/22/2019 4:25:23 PM PST by McGavin999 (Border security without a wall is like having a Ring doorbell without a door)
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To: detective

What is this special gesture? I’m unfamiliar with it.


67 posted on 01/22/2019 4:26:25 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine ( "It's always a party when you're eating the seed corn.")
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To: detective

Kirstin has been mad ever since Trump was elected. She can’t figure out how many dumb people there are out here who don’t measure up to her brilliance.


68 posted on 01/22/2019 4:31:57 PM PST by frnewsjunkie
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To: Pearls Before Swine

According to one radio talkshow host, one kid held up 2 fingers (peace sign). Another kid held up one finger (index finger, usually signaling #1).

Kirsten has lost her mind.


69 posted on 01/22/2019 4:34:14 PM PST by TomGuy
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To: austinaero

“CNN is going to find themselves in the middle of a big fat lawsuit because of people like kirsten powers. I couldn’t be happier.”

I know. Don’t you love it?


70 posted on 01/22/2019 4:34:41 PM PST by Andy'smom (Proud member of the basket of deplorables)
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To: basalt

Is that an Adam’s apple under her chin in that photo.


71 posted on 01/22/2019 4:39:50 PM PST by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
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To: MeganC

You go girl!


72 posted on 01/22/2019 4:46:10 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: gcparent

“Is that an Adam’s apple under her chin in that photo.”

A sperm pouch.


73 posted on 01/22/2019 4:48:46 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: McGavin999

I recall reading that Tom Brokaw faced civil consequences for calling Richard Jewell a terrorist in 1996. Jewell was also maligned by the media as ‘living with his mother’ when in fact she was living with him and he was taking care of her.

So there is precedent.


74 posted on 01/22/2019 4:48:56 PM PST by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
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To: detective

Sue this lying wench into bankruptcy.


75 posted on 01/22/2019 4:53:52 PM PST by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: Ann Archy
Her Christianity Conversion seems to have fallen on ROCKY SOIL!

She used to be a halfway reasonable Lefty (she wrote the book "The Silencing" a few years ago) but since she left Fox she has completely lost it.

What happened, do you think?

76 posted on 01/22/2019 5:12:53 PM PST by truthkeeper (All Trump Has Going for Him is the Votes)
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To: MeganC

Very correct. I prefer not to use it, but you are entirely correct in your position.

I rarely heard it as a boy, anywhere, much less at home. My parents were authentically conservative, including being not racist.

My mother, who is part Semite and very dark, once said that some of her classmates sometimes thought she must be part black. She used the other term instead, which somewhat surprised me, since my parents did not use it as a rule. She was simply quoting classmates from her childhood, when it was simply what it was: a vernacular rendition of negroe.

She obviously was not degrading herself. She said it to emphasize that she had always been unusually dark.

P.S.
Since she was Prom Queen three years in a row, being that dark obviously did not interfere with her popularity in a white neighborhood in the early 1940s in Wisconsin.


77 posted on 01/22/2019 5:46:07 PM PST by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: detective

Kirsten Powers had the opportunity to confront the hate group that was harassing the boys, but typical of elitist liberal racism, they must discount and apologize for the abberant behavior of minorities who misbehave as if they are less of a human being and not accountable for their actions


78 posted on 01/22/2019 5:47:14 PM PST by blueplum ( "...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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To: basalt

I really wish this was not tolerated on FR. I am 45, married over 20 years and my husband is the only man for me, and I have no children. We wanted/want children, but God had other plans. I have never had an abortion, but I have had several miscarriages. Please don’t assume you have a clue what a childless woman has been through.


79 posted on 01/22/2019 8:25:12 PM PST by Grenada
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To: truthkeeper

CNN is what happened to her...….she BATHES in THEIR HATRED!


80 posted on 01/23/2019 1:58:41 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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