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California Principal Apologizes for Forbidding U.S. Flag Shirts on Mexican Holiday
fox ^ | 5/7/10 | staff

Posted on 05/07/2010 5:30:46 PM PDT by Nachum

Tensions are rising at a California high school where five students were sent home for wearing American flag T-shirts on Cinco de Mayo.

A California high school principal has apologized for telling five students they couldn't wear U.S. flag shirts on Cinco de Mayo, the local superintendent said Friday.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: aliens; apologizes; apology; california; cincodemayo; flag; morganhill; oldglory; principal; tshirt
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To: Ann Archy
“never heard of Cinco de mayo til the last decade or so”
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Me too!
I grew up in a border town in TX. Plenty of mexicans. In fact, more mexicans than whites.

Anyway, I never heard of Cinco de mayo. No one celebrated it. And believe you me, our non-white neighbors used any excuse in the book to have a party and drink.

Schools never taught us about mexico’s history either. I do seem to remember Alamo history being taught.

What the heck has happened to our Country and to our schools?

21 posted on 05/07/2010 5:43:45 PM PDT by Aurorales (I will not be ridiculed into silence)
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To: Sacajaweau

I read that two of the kids are MexicanAmerican.


22 posted on 05/07/2010 5:44:06 PM PDT by svcw (Habakkuk 2:3)
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To: mnehring
But Kwanzaa is real.

Right...?

23 posted on 05/07/2010 5:44:08 PM PDT by Flycatcher (God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
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To: Aurorales

LIBERALISM is what happened to our schools....LIBERALISM.....it’s a MENTAL DISORDER.


24 posted on 05/07/2010 5:44:46 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion,,,,,,the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: GeronL

Just like the idiot principal in Ann Arbor who took black kids on a field trip while leaving white kids behind.

BTW the locals are screaminng bloody murder about it making national news, they apparently don’t care much for the sunlight.


25 posted on 05/07/2010 5:45:11 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: Nachum

He apologizes but would do the exact same thing tomorrow! We need to get rid of forced, public schools under the threat of force if one does not send their children there. They are the exact place that controlling liberals like to work and....well....control!

JoMa


26 posted on 05/07/2010 5:45:44 PM PDT by joma89
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To: mnehring

LOL good one! You need to send that into FOX or Redeye and maybe get some on air play with that.


27 posted on 05/07/2010 5:46:31 PM PDT by Captain Beyond (The Hammer of the gods! (Just a cool line from a Led Zep song))
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To: cripplecreek

“There is going to be violence in his school and he and whoever else has promoted this hatred of America is going to have blood on their hands.”

Bingo!
His apology has nothing to do with his underlying mindset, his bitterness over the fact that Mexico once claimed large parts of CA and a culture that embraces defeating the “melting pot” concept.
And then we get to the background music provided by the leftist drumbeat.


28 posted on 05/07/2010 5:46:34 PM PDT by frog in a pot (Wake up America! The Socialists are winning the long war against you and your Constitution!)
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To: Nachum

When the citizens of Mexico start paying the taxes that pay the salaries of these liberal MORONS....then, maybe they can display the flag of Mexico. Unless or until then.....

display the flag of the United States of America...ONLY. You know....the flag that represents the taxpayers that pay your very undeserved leftist salaries (at least....for the present).

I am wondering how displaying the Confederate Flag would go over, since all these liberals are so gung-ho about displaying flags of different “cultures”.

Point made?


29 posted on 05/07/2010 5:47:59 PM PDT by XenaLee (The only good commie is a dead commie.)
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To: cripplecreek

lol.

Another racist principal who should be fired.

In Houston a boy was suspended for being upset that the school flew the MEXICAN flag and tried to take it down. It flew above the US flag on the pole, the US flag was upside down.


30 posted on 05/07/2010 5:48:22 PM PDT by GeronL (http://libertyfic.proboards.com << Get your science fiction and fiction test marketed)
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To: Ann Archy
It's not even a big Mexican holiday. It's like Saint Patrick Day - Drunk Fratboy night.
31 posted on 05/07/2010 5:48:36 PM PDT by GAB-1955 (I write books, love my wife, serve my nation, and believe in the Resurrection.)
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To: Nachum

Who cares what this moron said. At this point they are trying to avoid a lawsuit. Send his rear home. ...back to Mexico. I have never seen a group such as this that comes over here and basically get everything for free and then demand respect. Freaking amazing


32 posted on 05/07/2010 5:49:36 PM PDT by claymax ("Man is not free unless Government is limited" Ronald Reagan)
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To: Nachum

Last I heard, the students got dinged with unexcused absences. How about that? I think the students who wore the foreign flags need some kind of sanctions....


33 posted on 05/07/2010 5:50:18 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (Build a man a fire; he'll be warm for a night. Set a man on fire; he'll be warm the rest of his life)
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To: Nachum
Cinco de Mayo is no more than a reason for bars & restaurants to serve watered-down margueritas and crappy tacos for happy hour.

I'll accept Cinco de Mayo as a legitimate holiday around the same time I celebrate Kwanzaa.

 

   

 

34 posted on 05/07/2010 5:52:30 PM PDT by Fintan (Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.)
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To: ExTexasRedhead

Deport hm!


35 posted on 05/07/2010 5:52:57 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: frog in a pot
Funny thing about California history. As I understand it, locals rose up and siezed the spanish garrison.

According to wiki.

Although the United States declared war against Mexico on May 13, 1846, it took almost two months (until the middle of June, 1846) for definite word of war to get to California. American consul Thomas O. Larkin, stationed in Monterey, on hearing rumors of war tried to maintain the peace between the States and the small Mexican military garrison commanded by José Castro. U.S. Army captain John C. Frémont, with about sixty well-armed men, had entered California in December, 1845, and was slowly marching to Oregon when he received word that war between Mexico and the U.S. was imminent. So began his chapter of the war, the "Bear Flag Revolt."[30]

On June 15, 1846, some thirty settlers, mostly American citizens, staged a revolt and seized the small Mexican garrison in Sonoma. They raised the "Bear Flag" of the California Republic over Sonoma. The republic was in existence scarcely more than a week before the U.S. Army, led by Frémont, took over on June 23. The California state flag today is based on this original Bear Flag and still contains the words, "California Republic."

36 posted on 05/07/2010 5:53:29 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: Ann Archy

How sad this is.

My mother’s side of the family is of Mexican descent. My grandfather came from Mexico.....LEGALLY!
(I rarely admit that)

My mother and father refused to teach their kids spanish. Even though my mother spoke it fluently. She told us we live in America and are American. We speak English.

We celebrated the heck out of the Fourth of July, loved baseball, apple pie, and anything else American.

What is wrong with these people? Why move here if you can’t embrace and love this Country?

Mental disorder is right.


37 posted on 05/07/2010 5:54:24 PM PDT by Aurorales (I will not be ridiculed into silence)
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To: GeronL

They should be.
Cinco is a holiday regarding a defeat OF French
not BY Americans
America offers a much better home and more freedom than Mexico
They should be happy and grateful to see American flags anytime of year.
Mexicans are oppressed by Mexicans, not us.


38 posted on 05/07/2010 5:56:00 PM PDT by omega4179 (www.jdforsenate.com)
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To: Nachum

The principal and assistant principal, should be fired on the spot.


39 posted on 05/07/2010 5:56:13 PM PDT by gedeon3 (Wake up America!! The enemy is among us!)
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To: GeronL

MEXICO: Good enough to wave a flag about. Not good enough to live in.


40 posted on 05/07/2010 5:56:56 PM PDT by Psycho_Bunny (The Quran and Mein Kampf: if you've read one you've read them both.)
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