Posted on 05/21/2010 12:52:46 PM PDT by Rebelbase
San Diego, California (CNN) — When five students at Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill, California, taunted Latino students by wearing T-shirts bearing the American flag on Cinco de Mayo, even though administrators had told students beforehand not to wear flag clothing that day, they caused a ruckus, divided a community and reignited the culture wars.
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The majority of my family (Mom, Dad, aunts, uncles, etc) are all liberals. I just dropped a few of them from my friends list on FaceBook. One of my cousins (she was a teacher in CA for years) has a pictorial shrine to Che hanging on the wall in her hallway. I have nothing in common with any of them and avoid at all costs.
Dad’s ok. He doesn’t get into talking’ politics but my mom is another story....at least she was until she had a stroke 2-1/2 yrs ago. She and I got into a rip-roarin’ argument over the phone about 3 yrs ago.
...even though administrators had told students beforehand not to wear flag clothing that day...That's a lie. The students were told no such thing.
That's because all the Mexicans are here. :-)
What a complete crock of BS!!!!!!!!! wearing outfits with the American flag on AMERICA is somehow bad? “I’d take a flemthrower to this place!”
Mr. Navarrette (Hispanic) was recently profiled by Hispanic magazine as one of thirty accomplished young people under thirty.
Mr. Navarrette lives in California's San Joaquin Valley where he is writing his next book, contributing regularly to the Los Angeles Times and other newspapers, and preparing to launch the political newsletter, Reconciliation , which addresses issues of concern to Latinos and the American community.
He goes wrong immediately in the first sentence. Why was wearing the American flag “taunting” the hyphenated American kids with whom the writer identifies. How can an American flag, displayed in America, be seen as “taunting” anyone.
Of course, liberals will only "debate" strawmen, because they can't debate a conservative.
Reuben is full of sh**!
The American Flag flies over that frickin' school on May the fifth, and every other day of the year. It's the flag that hangs in the administration office and the classrooms.
This is still the United States of America on May the fifth, and that is an American public school on American soil.
The American flag is not just any symbol, Reuben, -it is THE SYMBOL.
And conservatives have always believed that liberals and multiculturalists should be never be allowed to cast our Stars and Stripes as a symbol of "divisiveness".
Well, Reuben, you are finally displaying your true colors as a closet MeCHISTA.
Hmmmmmm. So there is a difference? I wonder whatever happened to that old "melting pot".
I had no idea that there was a problem with civil disobedience. The left does not own it, even if they think they do. These petty commutards need some healthy, loud opposition. Perhaps they would better understand their historic uncivil disobedience. A Berkly style riot, complete with burning the administration offices, using foreign flags and presidential effigies for tinder all the while demanding press coverage, amnesty and equality. Just the image and the potential that it could catch on should cause strokes in the media.
Quite a guy.
I got a kick out of his green card story from OHAMA,NE.(sic).
Seems to me that Navarette has hit on the problem right there. Yes, school administrators do have the obligation to "maintain order and prevent disruptive behavior." But in this case, the "disruptive behavior" would be the anticipated assaults on students wearing the American flag. Those acts would be the "disruption," not the wearing of a flag shirt. For a supposed "free speech" advocate to propose the remedy of government censorship is terrible. Contrary to the belief of so many liberals, there is nothing obscene, disruptive, or inappropriate about the US flag. It strikes me as absolutely cowardly for a school administrator to elect to ban the flag, rather than expelling anyone who would assault a student wearing it.
Somehow I suspect that if a homosexual student wanted to wear a pink triangle shirt (or whatever the current symbolism dictates), a principal wouldn't tell him/her to turn it inside out to avoid the threat of violence. Any other student who threatened the gay T-shirt wearer would be disciplined, and Navarette wouldn't be writing an article complaining about "disobedient brats" who elected to cause a disruption by wearing an inflammatory (no pun intended!) shirt.
The situation reminds me of the Muslim cartoons-- much easier just to abandon free speech than to actually defend those who practice it. When threatened with violence, the current liberal response seems to be appeasement, rather than defense of free speech.
This thread needs a “steaming turd” alert.
“The ruckus ensued when Assistant Principal Miguel Rodriguez — apparently fearing that the boys’ fashion choices might provoke a violent response from Latino students”...
Perhaps Miguel Rodriguez knows that Latinos are prone to violence. Of course, no one can say that, but maybe deep down inside, he KNEW it.
"....and lying in your bed, dying, many years from now...would you trade all the days from this day to that for one chance...just ONE chance to say?...they may take our lives but they will never take our Freedom!"
A tad extreme in this case...perhaps. But it is a basic freedom of speech issue. I and every other American is free to wear a tee-shirt, with nothing more than a flag on it, no matter who it p!$$e$ off.
He’s right about suspending or expelling disruptive students. It’s just that he can’t see who the disruptors are. If there is any violence or argument provoked here, it’s the fault of the treasonous little reconquistadores who want to force the whole school to celebrate another country’s holiday. They are the ones who should be expelled if there is any trouble.
Next they’ll tell us that troublemaking, disruptive white girls who refuse to wear the veil in a school full of Muslim immigrants must be punished for their insensitive provocations.
How's this?
"When five students at Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill, California, taunted Latino students by wearing T-shirts bearing the American flag on Cinco de Mayo,"
-So, wearing a t-shirt that is neither profane nor would otherwise be 'banned' on any other day of the year in that school constitutes a "taunt"? Yeahhhhhh, okay.
"Assistant Principal Miguel Rodriguez -- apparently fearing that the boys' fashion choices might provoke a violent response from Latino students who have developed an emotional attachment to the faux holiday as 'their day'"
-So, isn't the real problem the kids who would act violently, and not the kids wearing the shirts?
"But now several Lincoln East students admit they made and distributed dozens of "green cards," which fans threw onto the field after the game like confetti. Why green cards? Because South's soccer team is mostly Latino."
-That Navaratte equates an ugly act like this with the t-shirt issue (albeit admitting the former is a much worse case), speaks volumes about what a clod this guy is.
Good one.
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