Posted on 05/05/2014 3:40:05 PM PDT by therightliveswithus
Today, several dozen adults protested in front of Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill, California. The protest was mostly silent and instead of signs, most of the protesters simply held American flags. This display was deemed "racist" by numerous onlookers and commentators.
Georgine Scott-Codiga, president of the Gilroy Morgan Hill Patriots group stated, "We're just here to support the First Amendment's right to free speech. Cinco de Mayo is a circumstance of the issue. The issue is free speech."
Tonight, some Latinos living in Morgan Hill plan a counter-protest. They allege that the display of American flags "implies Mexican Americans and other Latinos cannot be patriotic and proud of their heritage at the same time."
The school itself has banned the display of American flag shirts, siding with the counter-protesters. Other commentators, taking to online forums, were much less kind and much more confrontational in their opinions.
This twitter user, apparently a fan of the Golden State Warriors (DubNation), was not kind at all in his assessment of the display of the American flag:
(Excerpt) Read more at thepunditpress.com ...
Political correctness, come home to roost.
Since when is DUMB spelled DUB??
Dont like Our FLag?,,look the other way or simply grin and bear it!
Divide and conquer
Pretty soon just being white will be considered racist.
In the minds of many, it already is.
Wear school uniforms and celebrate knowledge, not some holiday imported by beer companies.
Everybody here does know that this supposed Holiday is NOT celebrated in Mexico??
Sometimes people on both sides make too big a thing out of this. If you drive through neighborhoods in Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Long Island you almost always find yourself behind a car with easily seen Italian flags. Back in 1980 when Italy beat Germany inthe World Cup I watched fistfights between Italian and German teens inGlendale Queens whose connection to the old country were photos in an old family album. If there is a cause of all this it’s most likely proximity. Mexico is too close to allow the ties to easily loosen.
Yup. Go a 100 miles south of the border and they just go “Qe?” “No comprende cinqo de mayo.”
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I don’t see what the American flag has anything to do with being a ‘racist’. I anyone comes to America, of course they would expect to see the American flag.
Cinco de Mayo (literally "hold the mayo" in Spanish), might as well be a Mexican version of Kwanzaa.
Every time someone uses the term “teabaggers” the response should be “You’re anti gay! You hate gay people!”
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