Fundamental character flaws in this group of people.
Character flaws with predictable outcomes.
Posted on 05/07/2010 8:34:53 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Tensions are rising at a California high school where five students were sent home for wearing American flag T-shirts on Cinco de Mayo.
More than 200 Hispanic students reportedly skipped class on Thursday and marched to school district headquarters while chanting "we want respect" and "si se puedes" -- "yes we can" -- the Morgan Hill Times reported.
"We did this to support the Latino/Hispanic community," Francine Roa, a 2005 Live Oak High School graduate, told the newspaper.
At least six Morgan Hill police vehicles traveled alongside the students, many of whom carried Mexican flags. No arrests were made related to the march, the newspaper reported.
Police have been told to be on alert for gang-related retaliation against the boys, according to Ken Jones, whose stepson, Daniel Galli, was one of the students who refused to turn their T-shirts inside-out when asked by a vice principal on Wednesday.
"We just want this whole thing to die down," Jones told FoxNews.com. "We're not trying to keep these flames firing."
The five teens -- Galli, Austin Carvalho, Matt Dariano, Dominic Maciel and Clayton Howard -- were sitting at a table outside Live Oak High School Wednesday morning when Assistant Principal Miguel Rodriguez asked two of them to remove their American flag bandannas, one of the boys' parents told FoxNews.com. The youths complied, but were asked to accompany Rodriguez to the principal's office.
The students were then told they must turn their T-shirts inside-out or be sent home, though it would not be considered a suspension. Rodriguez told the students he did not want any fights to break out between Mexican-American students celebrating their heritage and those wearing American flags, the parent said.
But Jones said the preemptive action was unnecessary, and that Rodriguez "overstepped his bounds."
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Fundamental character flaws in this group of people.
Character flaws with predictable outcomes.
Youget no respect flying the fly of another nation in OUR country! If you want to fly that flag go back to Mexico!
Actually, Mexicans don’t celebrate Cinco De Mayo, it’s not a national holiday for them (the local area where the battle took place does celebrate).
Cinco De Mayo is an American creation, California to be exact.
Now if someone could just explain why Mexican-Americans would be opposed to seeing American flags. After all, they are Americans, and the American flag is there flag.
Makes me wonder if the school removed all the American flags for the day (or if the school even HAS flags in the classrooms for the morning pledge, or if the school even DOES the morning pledge).
I think I’ll push our local school board to pass a rule that no child can be removed from class for wearing an American flag shirt, patch, or pin in the appropriate manner.
Although I never would have thought we’d need a rule like that.
Admin Moderator? Because someone, in response to your complaining that the kids didn’t stand up to the principal and risk being suspended or expelled, asked you what YOU did in protest that day?
It was clear to me what the poster meant. You statment belittled these students who wore flags because they didn’t stand up to the principle, and the poster wanted to know if you had made a similar sacrifice to what you were suggesting the students should have done.
Of course you didn’t have to answer the question, but dragging the moderator into it suggests that the question violated the rules of the forum, when it seems clear it did not.
You are correct, but then he improperly gave into his perceived threat of violence, and punished students who did nothing wrong in order to appease the students he expected would break the law and become physically violent.
It is becoming more and more clear each day in this post-Obama America that the way to get what you want is to threaten to attack other people.
Thanks. I missed that. And this guy that goes running to the AM says he has more balls than those kids. Right.
You are correct. There was a posting here on FR stating that it is not widely celebrated in Mexico.
It is an ethnic holiday, like St. Patrick’s Day. which until recently was just a religious holiday in Ireland, but was very important to the American Irish. That is the Catholic Irish.
Not sure I want to get into the middle of this but I think the question raised is a good one for everyone and legitimate. We do not as a group do enough, obviously.
I do think your question was taken out of context but can see how it is a sensitive issue. Like a problem with all written communication is that we can not always see the true tone in which a comment is made.
If someone interpreted it as prying into their personal lives (not the way I read it) then I can understand they would get up set.
These names ALL have their origins in the various nations that make up modern Spain and Portugual.
In short, they are classical Hispanic names, two of them dating back to pre-Roman times.
I don't think you can get more Hispanic than that ~ these young men had ancestors who came to America as Conquistedores and married native women. They are the very essence of the broad masses of Mexicans and Central Americans who are mestizo.
They wore our colors.
Those other people who abused them are fascist pigs.
I wish every High School student would wear clothes featuring Old Glory on the last day of school.
The mexicans are protesting the American students??? Are we really this far gone?
We are not finished, but it is past time to take back our country.
Drawing on what I have read, I think the same kind of ordinances were passed in New England in the 19th Century.
Drawing on what I have read, I think the same kind of ordinances were passed in New England in the 19th Century.
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do they ban the flag on St. Patrick’s Day?
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my first thought - can you imagine how silly it would be if it was anyone but Mexicans protesting this?
(Very proud of my Irish heritage, but you will not find one Irish flag here)
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