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Tensions High at California High School Following Flag Flap (Wearing US flag shirts Cinco De Mayo)
Fox News ^ | May 7, 2010 | Joshua Rhett Miller

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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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: aliens; arth; california; cincodemayo; flag; morganhill; racism
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To: Carley
He’d fit right in here.

Properly folded, I could fit him in a trash can.

141 posted on 05/08/2010 8:20:54 AM PDT by gundog (Outrage is anger taken by surprise. Nothing these people do surprises me anymore.)
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To: BelegStrongbow
“Kids who wear American Flag T-shirts on 5 May should have to share a lunchroom table with those who wear a hammer and sickle on 4 July,” he tweeted.

Those kids have to share their schools every day with the hammer and sickle teachers and students. If you cared to look you'd see that a huge number of teachers in California schools espouse communism. They taught those Hispanic how to 'walk out' because it is a tool the communists use to disrupt an institution and force 'change' to communism.

At least one newspaper gets the 'walk out' tactic. It is taught.

Civil disobedience pupils organize school walkout

Date: January 31, 2003 Publication: Inland Valley Daily Bulletin (Ontario, CA)

APTOS - Hundreds of Aptos High School students who had been studying civil disobedience walked out of school Friday morning to protest the fact they can't leave campus for lunch.

Some students blocked roads when the protest began around 7:30 a.m., but by noon only 20 of the 200 protesters remained, according to Santa Cruz County sheriff's spokesman Kim Allyn. The rest walked off campus or returned to class.
142 posted on 05/08/2010 8:45:07 AM PDT by hedgetrimmer
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To: stevio
The mexicans are protesting the American students??? Are we really this far gone?

This was well document in the 1990's in California. It's been going on for a long time. I'm honestly surprised that the 'conservative' media is actually talking about this, they've ignored it for so long.
143 posted on 05/08/2010 8:47:30 AM PDT by hedgetrimmer
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To: muawiyah
That's the thing. Those two surnames don't sound Hispanic to me. Around where I live, they wouldn't be.

Top places of origin for Galli

If asked, those boys themselves probably would tell us they're 100% American. As would my sons. Kudos to all the youth who are proud of their American heritage.

144 posted on 05/08/2010 8:50:01 AM PDT by Tired of Taxes (Dad, I will always think of you.)
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To: Bob

Walking out is a familiar tactic in the area. Note the date on this walkout.

Students Who Walked Out Face Penalties
Tuesday, March 28, 2006

Mar. 28 - BCN — At least 650 students from three Santa Cruz County high schools walked out of class Monday to take part in protests over proposed restrictions on illegal immigration, according to Pajaro Valley Unified School District Superintendent Mary Anne Mays.

The students walked out of all three of the district’s comprehensive high schools. Approximately 50 students walked out of Aptos High School and approximately 300 students walked out of both Watsonville High School and Pajaro Valley High School, Mays said.

The students will be disciplined by the schools, according to Mays.

“They’re considered cutting and unless they have any discipline related to it the consequence is typically Saturday school,” Mays said.

Mays and other district officials were surprised that the students walked out of class given the large protests that took place throughout the state over the weekend.

“High school students need to be expressive,” Mays said as a possible explanation for Monday’s walkouts.


145 posted on 05/08/2010 9:03:58 AM PDT by hedgetrimmer
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To: hedgetrimmer
“High school students need to be expressive,” Mays said as a possible explanation for Monday’s walkouts.

As they're walking out, give each one of them a map highlighting the way back to Mexico.
146 posted on 05/08/2010 9:10:48 AM PDT by aruanan
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To: Tired of Taxes
Just checking through GALLI on the Mormon site ~ www.familysearch.org

We find”

Philippines 1879 ~ at least one

Guadeloupe 1868 ~ at least one

Mexico 1758 ~ earliest date given

South America has a large number of folks with this name ~ without any one area being dominant.

The name, however, has a VERY CLEAR MEANING ~ it is the name which classed the Celtic tribes of Europe ~ we all recall “omnia gallia est divisa in tres partes” ~ which is pretty much how Julius Caesar began his autobiography, and justification for becoming a dictator.

Gallia refers to places where the “gallic” tribes lived ~ Galicia in Spain, Galicia in Turkey, Bologna in Italy, ……

I really do think there’s quite a bit of justification for considering “Galli” an Hispanic name in a predominantly Hispanic area of settlement.

147 posted on 05/08/2010 12:34:58 PM PDT by muawiyah ("Git Out The Way")
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To: muawiyah

I just checked the same site — www.familysearch.org

I think I won. :-)

PORTUGAL: None with the surname Galli.
One with the spelling Gali (one letter-l).

MEXICO/MEXICAN: None with Galli as surname.
Three with Galli as one of their family names (not as last name).
Three with Gallo (but I knew of Italian families named Gallo)

SPAIN: only 1 spelled Galli. All of the others used one letter-l (Gali).

FRANCE: Approx. 20 or more Galli from France. Most others had different spellings.

ITALY: 207, most spelled Galli. Some are spelled Gallo.

http://www.familysearch.org/eng/search/frameset_search.asp?PAGE=/eng/search/ancestorsearchresults.asp

I rest my case. :-) But, you still might be correct. Galli could be Mexican. As I said before, it could be French, too.

Here’s the rule I always heard: If it ends in a vowel, especially with a double-l such as “lli”, it’s Italian. Many of my relatives’ surnames end that way. One family of relatives whose name ends that way lives in California.

The Spanish use one-l, like Dali (as in the artist).


148 posted on 05/08/2010 3:32:07 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes (Dad, I will always think of you.)
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To: Tired of Taxes
The "ll" that Caesar used was consistent with usages of his day. The organized and civilized Celtic tribes in the Italian mainland were usually identified by their classical tribal names, or in some form of "Bologna, Boulogne", etc. The "BO" is an honorific like "O" or "Mc" or "Mac" or as the Greeks would do it "Mag". The language it comes from has been dead for more than 1,000 years!

I don't think you can get a source earlier than Caesar.

Now, regarding "Gallo" and "Gullo" ~ most pre-French latin based languages/dialects in what is now French were called "Gallo". "Gullo" is sometimes found in Sicily and is a different word.

Now, about Celtic clan names in what is now France back in Caesar's day ~ they reached off South across the Mountains into Northern Spain. The dominant Celtic group in what is today's Galicia (including Northern Portugal) had come from the Danube around 1000 BC. They had taken over a large chunk of the North Coast held by the Basque. In 700 BC whereupon they invaded Ireland (and Britain). This is the reason the Irish spoke a Celtic language until recent times but are otherwise clearly genetically identical to the Basque.

It would be highly unlikely for "Galli" to have failed to appear in Spain some time in that history. In fact, Hannibal's ally in Spain during the Punic wars was a fellow named Magolis, or, as we'd put that today Mac Wallace, or McGallis.

Do not let modern spelling conventions blind you to the reality of the past.

Now, give me an Italian reference older than Hannibal, the Greek historians, and the Milesians!

149 posted on 05/08/2010 8:59:51 PM PDT by muawiyah ("Git Out The Way")
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To: muawiyah

Now I’m completely lost. Are you saying everyone is Irish? ;-)

Just kidding. On the question of ancestry, the furthest I take it back is to the country from where the person’s ancesters emigrated to the U.S. That’s why I consider Galli an Italian name.

You’ve definitely traced it back much further than I did. :-)


150 posted on 05/11/2010 8:19:36 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes (Dad, I will always think of you.)
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To: Tired of Taxes
BTW, there are two competing stories regarding the invasion of Ireland by the Milesians. One story comes from Galicia (in Spain) and the other comes from what appears to be the reading rooms at Oxford.

The Galician version is written in ancient Greek. The Oxford version is written in English ~ rather modern too.

Most everything you heard about the "illiterate Celts" back in pre-Roman times appears to have been BS. They spoke Celtic languages, but their Greek slaves wrote in Greek.

151 posted on 05/12/2010 5:14:29 AM PDT by muawiyah ("Git Out The Way")
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To: CharlesWayneCT

“Cinco De Mayo is an American creation, California to be exact.”

It pisses me off that Americans are forced to be terrorized by pretend holidays like Cinco de Mayo and Kwanzaaaaaaaaa.


152 posted on 05/12/2010 5:17:59 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Every time a liberal whines, an angel gets his wings.)
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