Rules? What rules? We no need no stinking gringo rules!
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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Sounds like 200 students need their immigration status checked. ;-)
Only official U.S. holidays and the U.S. flag should be celebrated in U.S. public schools. It's the other flags that should not be displayed.
I noticed what you noticed, too. (Galli might be an Italian name, though.) Kudos to those students and their parents for refusing to back down.
I applaud the students for refusing to back down. Like 668, I was the type of teen who would've taken it even further. And often did. That doesn't take away from what these four students did, of course. I don't see 668's statement as taking away from what they did, either. Kudos to them and their parents for refusing to back down and bringing the story to the news.
Imagine, here in 2010, it's now considered offensive to display the U.S. flag. This is how far it has gone.
These dumb ass illegals are going to find out soon that their little temper tantrum over the American Flag is going to back fire on them.
Hmmm, maybe we should all wear American flag tshirts to support the students.
Disgusting VP.
Galli is most likely from Galicia ~ aka Carvajal ~ one of the three Christian kingdoms established to drive back the Moors. Carvajal did not fare as well as Castile and Leon, but it’s existence was never forgotten.
The Principal of this school must have seemed incomprehensible to the people trying to interview him.
Until I saw the surnames I couldn't quite figure it out but there you have it.
In fact, given the surnames of all involved, that's the only meaning that could be construed here.
Indeed, Galli could be either. Dariano could be either, too.
My general rule on Hispanic names is very simple ~ if it can be translated into a title of nobility, whether in Latin, Ladino, Spanish or Cornish, it's probably Spanish and not Italian.
Sometimes the names are Portuguese, but that Northern tier of Spanish counties North of Portugual has it's own local dialect that uses Portuguese spelling and Spanish pronunciation and vocabulary.
:-) You can’t tell by faces.
It’s true there’s a large Mexican population in that district. So, it’s possible you’re correct. But, those boys could have any ancestry. I would expect that, if all of those surnames were Mexican, they all would’ve said so. Instead, only one boy is said in the report to have a Mexican parent. It’s possible the others are either “Hispanic” of a different origin... or they’re not. Neither of us can really know unless they tell us.
Not that it matters. It’s just an interesting side note that they’re wearing the U.S. flag with pride and not backing down from the other students.
Occasionally you will run into a Spanish name that's literally a sentence.
The odds of any of these kids having a non-Hispanic name are, I would imagine given that area, ZILCH!
I can see neither of us is going to back down. :-)
I’m assuming those other surnames are not Mexican because the news report only mentioned that one boy had a Mexican parent. But, I see what you’re saying: Given the community, chances are they are. If so, why didn’t the news report say so?
Galli could be either Italian, French, or Portuguese. Dariano could be an Italian surname, too. If all these boys were of Mexican descent, I think the news report would’ve made that point. The reporter interviewed girls and introduced them as “Mexican-Americans”; it seems all of the boys would’ve been introduced the same way, if they were, too.
UNLESS the other three boys didn’t want to identify themselves that way... You’d think it would support their argument, though.
OK, you may be right. In one interview, student Dariano’s mother says he’s “half-Hispanic”, too (though she didn’t say Mexican). Not sure if through the mother’s or father’s side. But, here it is:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/05/06/there_will_be_no_apology_105472.html
There’s a fifth student who was not interviewed: Clayton Howard.
Rules? What rules? We no need no stinking gringo rules!
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.Three points:
1. I was in downtown Morgan Hill when these students passed through. There were definitely not 200 of them. I asked a few people for their crowd estimates before revealing my own. One shop owner estimated 40, another 75. (I had estimated 50 to 75. (Since I used to work for a newspaper, I've done this before.)
2. They appeared to have only gone down as far as the Community and Cultural Center. The school district office is several long blocks further down the road and their time in returning through downtown makes me highly suspicious of the claim that they reached the district office. While perhaps a few did, I'd have to say that the majority of them could not have.
3. During their initial pass through downtown, I heard no chants of "we want respect" or "si se puedes". The only chants that I heard were "Mexico! Mexico!" and "Give it back!". I heard no chanting at all on their return trip.
or was it:
The Mexicans wearing Mexican colors were protesting the American Mexicans wearing American colors.
A mix no doubt.
To get the Hispanic surnames their fathers have to be Hispanic (kinda anyway).
This may be a war between the various degrees of mix.
The boys probably want to grow up and join the US Marines. The girls want to be part of their group ~ which, at the moment, is just choc full of Mexican Mexican types.
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