Controversy over students mocking Native American strikes national chord
Debate around the incident reverberated culturally and politically amplified by an aggressive entry into the argument by Trump
The spectacle of a crowd of white teens in pro-Trump caps mocking a Native American activist on the National Mall just days before Martin Luther King Jr day was perhaps not needed to demonstrate that America’s social fabric is stretched thin.
The explosion of a media controversy around the incident was probably not necessary to drive participants in the ensuing debate into their usual partisan crouches.
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