I Was the Covington Catholic Student. I Refuse to Capitulate

Nicholas Sandmann is a student at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. He was the Covington Catholic High School student at the center of a viral video controversy known as the Lincoln Memorial confrontation that took place on January 18, 2019.

Transylvania University. Funny. Those fangs don't do him any favors in the sympathy department.

I Was the Covington Catholic Student. I Refuse to Capitulate (msn.com)

My Catholic faith has been present from the beginning of all that happened to me. The day after the incident at the Lincoln Memorial, with the help of Scott Jennings, I released my first written statement. It all came from me. They were my words.I mentioned that I was praying when Nathan Phillips was up in front of me. I was praying for the situation to be done with.
I'd never been out of our northern Kentucky bubble before, which is very German Catholic and completely different to DC in all ways. Someone coming up off the street and confronting me like that, and not having a chaperone intervene, was a novel experience.I was accused of stealing Phillips' talking points about the incident because he had been beating a drum in a prayer of his own. The immediate response to me—even though I've been baptized, had my first communion and been confirmed, and go to church every Sunday—was disbelief.But praying in that moment—which was a weird and unfamiliar situation for me—was a logical reaction. I was applying what I know in response to what I don't know.The reaction to my statement was frustrating. His story seemed to change between different outlets and networks, whereas my account of what happened has stayed the same from day one.
My faith was questioned, but his never was. I'm not saying his should have been. But it was a double standard. But it's at this point Nathan Phillips gets the wild idea that the situation is going to descend into a fight between a mob of white kids and a small group of African Americans.That was not the case at all; just not going to happen. I can't name a time I ever witnessed a fight in my years at CovCath.
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