PICTURED: Kentucky students from the same Catholic high school as the teens who taunted a Native American man were allowed to don BLACKFACE at their sports events – and openly goaded African American players
- Covington Catholic High School in Park Hills, Kentucky, allowed students over the last 10 years to wear black face to pep rallies
- Footage of the incidents appeared online on Monday where they are seen in 2015 with blackface and white painted smiles
- In one shocking image, they openly goad a black player from an opposing team
- The school has been caught in a media firestorm since students were filmed mocking a Native American man in Washington on Friday
- Chaperones had taken students to attend the anti-abortion March for Life protest
The Kentucky Catholic high school whose students were filmed taunting a Native American man at the Lincoln Memorial last Friday have been called out for allowing other youngsters to wear black face at pep rallies in the last 10 years.
Covington Catholic High School has shuttered its website, Facebook page and disconnected its phone since a video of its students at the memorial went viral over the weekend.
It has not commented on the footage which it posted on its YouTube account last January.
It is titled ‘Compilation video of the Colonel Crazies from over the past decade. With a Spirit that Will Not Die!’
At another event in 2015, more students wore blackface and jeered as an African American player from the school’s opponent stood in front of them
A student from the 2011 ‘Blackout’ pep rally had painted his entire upper body in black paint
At a 2012 event titled ‘Hillshire Farm’ other students were seen with black paint on their faces and bodies
There are several images of students attending Braveheart Marches, dressed in hunting clothes and at various other themed parties.
Among them are photographs and videos from a 2011 event called ‘blackout’ in which at least one student has painted their entire upper bodies with black paint.
At a 2012 event titled ‘Hillshire Farm’, two students were covered in it.
While the students painted their bodies with blue and white paint at a Braveheart event, there were no photographs of anyone with their bodies painted blue at the ‘blue out’ event.
The school has closed down its website and its Facebook page and disconnected its phone
A sign was left outside it on Sunday which read ‘this was not OK.’ The school has also reported threats to police
In the viral video from the weekend, the students jeered and taunted Nathan Philips, 64, a Native American man as he beat his drum in front of them.
The students had been called names by a different group of protesters beforehand and tensions were running high.
Nick Sandmann, one of the students, has been singled out for standing in front of Philips and appearing to block his path. Sandmann said he was trying to diffuse the situation whereas Philips, who says he is a Vietnam veteran, said he was terrified during the entire ordeal.
The school quickly criticized the students’ for their behavior in a joint statement with the Diocese of Covington, saying: ‘ We condemn the actions of the Covington Catholic High School students towards Nathan Phillips specifically, and Native Americans in general.
‘We extend our deepest apologies to Mr. Phillips.’
In the now well known images, Sandmann stares at the man while his classmates mock him. He stepped in front of him but claims he was not trying to block him