Day: January 24, 2019

Here it is again.  A news item in which students from, of all places a Catholic high school, wearing “Make America Great Again” caps were verbally confronted by a group of activists, but, and here’s the part that sticks out in my mind, they mocked and ridiculed a Native American gentleman with a simple hand drum that tried to separate the sides and restore peace. Has “turn the other cheek” never come up in these young men’s religious studies?  How about the 21^stcentury version of that – “don’t engage”? Perhaps these students were poorly prepared to descend on the nation’s capital, and clearly didn’t understand that wearing MAGA caps can be perceived as divisive symbols among diverse segments of the population.  As they were attending a rally of their own, clearly the irony of “respect life” was lost on them. Continue reading “National Anger Management”