Houston's Morning News 5-8am with Jimmy Barrett & Shara Fryer
Jan 24, 2019 ·
2h 11m 20s
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Jimmy Barrett and Shara Fryer take you through the stories that matter on the morning of 01/24/2019, including: If the first casualty of war is truth, the second is probably...
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Jimmy Barrett and Shara Fryer take you through the stories that matter on the morning of 01/24/2019, including: If the first casualty of war is truth, the second is probably neutrality. The media have long been left wing, but they lost all pretense of neutrality during the 2016 campaign. It’s been an anti-Trump crusade ever since. This Sunday, January 20, 2019, marks two years in office for The Donald. We take a look at the top themes the media has targeted for the Trump administration; Social Justice has become the death of Real Justice. Just look at the Catholic High school boys from Kentucky, who have become the target of death threats over their confrontation with a Native American leader… despite the FACT they proved to be the victims in the standoff. It had all the makings of the perfect 21st century crime. A seemingly incriminating social media video. That red hat. A victim from perhaps the single most oppressed class in American history, a Native American. A villain from its most privileged, a white male. And most damning, that incorrigible and unrelenting smile. But as it turns out, hundreds of thousands or even millions of retweets of an encounter following the March for Life told the wrong story. Nick Sandmann, a junior from Covington Catholic High School, didn't impede on the personal space of a Native American veteran and activist, Nathan Phillips. He didn't gloat and glimmer with centuries of white privilege held over the head of a man whose people faced genocide at the hands of the colonizer. So it seems, the student with the now infamous smirk committed only one crime: existing; The University of Notre Dame will cover murals in a campus building that depict Christopher Columbus in America following criticism that the images depict Native Americans in stereotypical submissive poses before white European explorers. "This is another example of revisionist history and a slap in the face to all Italian Americans," says Executive Board Member of the Italian American One Voice Coalition Andre DiMino. The Coalition points out that Columbus never landed in what is now the United States of America. Also, that Native Americans, who certainly suffered at the hands of European explorers, were practicing slavery and terrible brutality long before Columbus arrived. Finally, it was the English, Dutch and Spanish who brought disease and slavery to what is now the United States of America - not Columbus. "We very much respect the contributions of our Native American friends but I find it amazing that we are now judging a 15th Century man by 21st Century standards," says DiMino. "I implore the president of Notre Dame to reconsider his decision and not give into the hysteria of the moment. All Italian Americans celebrate Columbus' achievement of uniting the continents." The 12 murals created in the 1880s by Luis Gregori were intended to encourage immigrants who had come to the U.S. during a period of anti-Catholic sentiment.
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