Torres and interim vice president for institutional diversity Rita Martinez-Purson issued an apology Tuesday from the University for the incident.
"This sort of incident hurts everyone," Torres said. "It's something that you don't expect to see at a place like the University of New Mexico where we celebrate diversity."
Martinez-Purson said the incident caught her off-guard, as well.
"I don't think anything really prepares you for this type of vindictive behavior," she said. "Obviously, we need to have strong dialog across campus about respect for other people and their cultures."
And THIS is a major part of the problem. What kind of gobbeldigook is this...interim VP for institutional diversity. Your tax dollars hard at work paying for a useful idiot.
And as to the "vindictive" comment. Absolute Bravo Sierra. The "vindictiveness" is displayed by those who raise a foreign flag over our soveriegn shores without the Stars and Stripes, larger, and sitting right on top of it. That would be proper decorum and respect for OUR culture and nation. To not do so displays the real vindictiveness.
But these people are either too illeiterate to understand it (the useful idiots), or they do not care and understand full well the insult they are projecting and daring us to do anything about it.
God bless the kid that took it down.
Totally agree with you.
It will not be the only thing(s) taken down if the illegals and their supporters keep pushing the envelope and keep talking about their "lost" Mexican lands.
They don't know that they are pinching the sleeping giant who'll turn around and take them down. .
I disagree and I'll tell you why. That Mexican flag didn't belong to whomever took it. And I'll not countenance theft for any reason except starvation.
That being said the kid who took the Mexican flag would have been far more effective if he'd organized a protest against the person being so disrespectful the the flag of the United States.
A few like minded individuals marching with signs, banners, and singing patriotic songs would have been more effective. It would also show respect for one of the cornerstones of this nation; private property rights.
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Destroying other people’s property is wrong. When that property is an offense against our nation destroying it is not wrong...going by the rules of all other sovereign republics.
We’ve been having an undeclared war with Mexico for nearly twenty years yet very few politicians will even acknowledge it. They started it by using our country as their welfare state, social security solution, dump site for their criminals and criminally insane. Proof of the oozing corruption is apparent in the convictions of Ramos and Campean while Democrat judges are trampling all over citizens’ mandates all over America.
There are ten bridges across the Rio Grande that no one seems to know who built them. Weirder still, no one in the governments there questions it nor moves to dismantle them. Those foot bridges aren’t even monitored.