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Leonard Pitts: The image that captured a nation at the breaking point

The picture in question -- the video, actually -- electrified social media over the weekend. In it, a white high school boy wearing a "Make America Great Again" cap, confronts an older Native American man who is beating a ceremonial drum and singing a Native song. The encounter took place Friday on the National Mall. The man was there as part of the Indigenous Peoples March. The boy was with a group from Covington Catholic High School in Kentucky that was participating in the "March For Life" anti-abortion rally.

The man sings. The boy smirks. Some of his classmates mock the Native man.