Posted on 03/17/2015 6:46:02 PM PDT by rey
Santa Rosa City Schools officials are investigating what some students at Maria Carrillo High School claim was a “racist” pep rally skit that depicts Latino immigrants being rounded up by immigration officials.
According to students who attended the school rally last Friday and a brief video on YouTube, the skit shows students — some of them Latino — dancing to regional Mexican music, or banda norteña. Suddenly the dancers are interrupted by a siren and immigration enforcement officers. They are forced to show their green cards.
One of the students, presumably an undocumented immigrant, tries to run away and is taken down to the floor and arrested.
In the video, students in the audience can be heard yelling, “That’s racist,” and “You are racist.”
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Nowadays, being the robber seems to be the choice for kids today.
The play was probably borne out of the aim to demonstrate sensitivity to them.
But if the play wasn’t 100% conceived and executed by the biggest grievance mongers at the school then instead the much-ballyhooed Sensitivity Gesture will instead be lambasted as INsensitive.
In fact I’m glad —that will show them.
There really is no comprimising with those who make themselves into willing tools of communists.
I think most of us are suffering from race fatigue.
The “racism” accusation is used so often it has become meaningless.
Most people just don’t care anymore.
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Morgan Hill is a town immediately south of San Jose.
On Cinqo de Mayo 2 years ago two boys went to school wearing shirts that featured the American flag.
The Principal of the high-school said it was provocative and SUSPENDED the pair.
There was a suit, and about a year the Supreme Court UPHELD the school’s actions.
We had an interesting incident here on 9/11. Some high school boys were driving up and down the main street with a large US flag. A little while later some hispanic males were doing the same with the MExican flag.
People forget who Mexico has sided with time and again and it hasn’t been us.
A bigger question is who is Maria Carrillo?
It does get exhausting that is for sure. My only question is why is any kind of skit being done at school? What does this have to do with a Rally? I believe it was probably some pep rally. I would like the schools to go back to actually having class and if they want to have a pep rally then get the cheerleaders out there to cheer and the basketball players go around congratulating each other for being awesome. Having skits at a rally is hardly necessary.
Who is Maria Carillo? You’ love this.
As Maria Carrillo High School begins its nineteenth year as one of the top high schools in Sonoma County its namesake’s humble adobe is a daily reminder of this female pioneer and the hard journey she had to undertake to settle here. Maria Ygnacia Lopez de Carrillo was born the youngest to a large family on January 31, 1793 in San Diego, California. At the age of seven it is thought that Maria watched her father being buried just outside of a San Diego presidio. It was at this same presidio that Maria spent most of her childhood until, at the age of sixteen; she married Joaquin Victor Carrillo, a young man who had left his family in Baja, California to come north and train as a soldier. The happy couple eventually had thirteen children. The family thrived first in San Diego and then in San Gabriel. Joaquin retired from the military at about the time when Mexico gained independence from Spain. At that time Maria and her family went back to San Diego where they occupied a home with a garden. In 1835 at the age of forty-two, Joaquin died. Maria had no means with which to support her nine unmarried children so she took her family and walked north. There she lived for a short period in Sonoma in La Casa Grande with General Vallejo’s family. After some time Maria took her family to live near Carreta, which is currently where Santa Rosa exists. It was on January 28,1838 that Maria Carrillo was formally granted to occupy that land. On this surveyed 8,885 acres of granted land Maria had Native Americans and Mexican workers build the Carrillo adobe. Contrary to most women of her time, Maria supervised the farming of her rancho. She also managed the cultivation of large fields of wheat, barley, oats, corn, beans, peas, lentils and vegetables. Maria and her family were multilingual which enabled them to easily communicate with the natives who worked on the rancho. After the Bear Revolt of 1846, Maria was left with a bitter, angry feeling toward the Americans. The Gold Rush had forever altered the home Maria strove so hard to build. Just as the prospector ships began to pour into San Francisco Bay, Maria Ygnacia Lopez de Carrillo died on February 28, 1849. Maria’s courage and strong desire for a better life are the characteristics that the students of Maria Carrillo High School should heed. She was a role model and an important part of our living history.The school opened in 1997.[2] In 2011, a YouTube video of Maria Carrillo student Kayla Kearny speaking at a Martin Luther King, Jr. memorial assembly went viral after Kearny came out during her speech.[3]
““The two girls that are Mexican said that it was OK because they felt proud of having green cards,” said Carranza, who pointed out that she is undocumented.
“I thought that was disrespectful,” she said. “It was rude for them to say that, cuz people like me don’t have that and we can’t say we have our green cards ... We can’t be like them showing off our green cards.” “
They are legal.
You are a criminal.
“Maria had no means with which to support her nine unmarried children so she took her family and walked north.” Not much has changed since than.
“After the Bear Revolt of 1846, Maria was left with a bitter, angry feeling toward the Americans.” Still a prevalent attitude among many of our “new citizens”
Actually, that’s a pretty stirring bio of the woman. Widow at 42; no means of support; walks 500 miles north with nine kids; gets. 9,000 acre land grant; becomes a successful farmer. Then they had to toss in all the PC crap at the end and ruin it.
I’ll bet she was ecstatic at all the people pouring into CA in ‘48 eager to buy her farm products and make her rich. Then she died at age 56 with young kids left behind. I wonder how they survived — did they run the family farm?
I hate this state.
There is no way the Gold Rush "altered" anything at her rancho in Santa Rosa!
The Gold Rush happened 140 miles East of her digs... The only possible incident she would have seen would be an occasional wagon carrying oysters from the coast past her farm to the Sierra foothills...
Whoopie f'n Do!
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