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'We're failing as a community': In Kentucky, divisions grow over Covington Catholic High boys in viral video

PARK HILLS, Ky. - A five-minute walk from Covington Catholic High School, Reality Tuesday Cafe has developed a close relationship over the years with students. It has provided brownies for the school's pep rallies and hosted study groups after class. Its menu offers a blended coffee drink called the Colonel, a nod to the high school's mascot.

So when the all-boys school became the center of the growing controversy this week over a viral video of white teenage students in "Make America Great Again" hats surrounding an elderly Native American drummer by the Lincoln Memorial, it became the talk of customers at the otherwise quiet coffee shop in the Kentucky suburbs

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