The media debacle over Covington Catholic says a lot about blind prejudice on both sides

When a video went viral that supposedly showed white high school students wearing pro-Trump hats getting in the face of an elderly Native American activist, many online compared the teenagers to everything from Nazis to the Ku Klux Klan. The social media mob branded these kids hateful white supremacists immediately and ferociously.

When a longer video emerged later showing a fuller context that largely exonerated the students from what they had been accused of, it appears that the young man receiving the most venom, Covington Catholic High School junior Nick Sandmann, was actually trying to defuse the situation. Sandmann released a statement Sunday saying exactly that.