"The images in a series of videos that went viral on social media Saturday showed a tense scene near the Lincoln Memorial.
In
them, a Native American man steadily beats his drum at the tail end of
Friday’s Indigenous Peoples March while singing a song of unity for
indigenous people to “be strong” in the face of the ravages of
colonialism that now include police brutality, poor access to health
care and the ill effects of climate change on reservations.
Surrounding
him are a throng of young, mostly white teenage boys, several wearing
Make America Great Again caps, with one standing about a foot from the
drummer’s face wearing a relentless smirk."
