Posted on 05/05/2014 10:10:38 AM PDT by PoloSec
Diversity and tolerance is a one way street
Via The DC
Students in a California school district will not be allowed to wear American flag T-shirts on Cinco de Mayo, due to concerns that such displays of patriotism would inflame racial tensions by offending Mexican students on their holiday.
The districts policy concerned many free speech advocates, but was upheld by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
In response, Tea Party groups plan to protest outside Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill. And they will be wearing American flag T-shirts.
They silenced a symbol of patriotism and freedom in America, said Georgine Scott-Codiga, president of the Gillroy-Morgan Hill Patriots, in a statement to KCBS.
The trouble dates back to Cinco de Mayo in 2010, when the school forced four students to remove their American flag T-shirts. Administrators worried that fighting would break out between white and Latino students if the shirts were noticed, and so the four offending students were sent home.
The practice of limiting one groups free speech rights because that speech might cause another group to react violently is known as the hecklers veto. It is understood by free speech enthusiasts to have a chilling effect on First Amendment rights.
The Ninth Circuit, however, ruled in February that the school was legally permitted to abridge white students free speech rights in service of Latino students feelings.
The Tea Party protest is focused on the free speech issue, said Scott-Codiga.
Police will being standing by in case things get out of hand.
Love it!
Update: Via Mercury News:
About 30 protesters holding American flags are silently standing outside of Live Oak High School on the anniversary of a controversial incident that gained national attention.
The protesters have indicated they wont have anything to say until classes start at 8:15 a.m.
Students arrived at school under tight police security, four years after a small group of Live Oak students came to school on Cinco de Mayo wearing American flag T-shirts, saying it was a sign of their patriotism. Latino students felt it was a sign of disrespect. Administrators told the students to wear the T-shirts inside out or go home.
That has zip to do with you telling those holding American flags in protest to surrender to the whims and demands of government. :-)
Its NOT a Mexican holiday. Check it out. If anything its a joint Mexican/American creation.
“This sort of stuff just makes blood shoot from my eyeballs. GO HOME to Messy-co if you want to celebrate independence from Spain.”
Cinco de mayo isn’t even mexican independence day. It is a celebration of a single battle defeating the french at puebla. Nowhere in mexico celebrates it except puebla and maybe the us border towns. Even in puebla, where I am sitting right now this minute it is not that big of a deal. Mexican independence is sept 16
I’d wear a t-shirt commemorating the battle of San Jacinto or maybe Chapultepec. See if any of the amigos gets it.
Of course its moronic, you’ve already lost your state.
If “Americans” would hold their students out of school on that day, it’d hit the school district in the pocket book - which is all it cares about anyway.
"Get steenko on cinco!"
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Those kind of posts reflect their double digit IQs.
Then I guess you should contact all those people holding American flags and tell them how stupid they all are and suggest they all just bend over and take it.
Brilliant!
It’s the perfect day to wear a US flag shirt and wave a US flag. I don’t celebrate Stinky Mayonnaise anyway
Thanx for that...but, I really care less the meaning. With all respect.
Just sick and tired of our PC puke leadership shoving this crap down our throats.
So they win back their state after 40 years of being run over by illegals?
Woo-Hoo, Go Cali.
Have you contacted all those people holding American flags and advised them how stupid they all are and suggested they all just bend over and take it?
Please report back...
I have not. Let them report to me when conservatives have the governorship and congress of California.
Gezzz
I’ll be waiting. Be sure that moonbeam and the rest are on notice.
People come out into the streets standing for American nationalism, refusing to bend to leftist run government schools and idiots like you show up mocking them from the sidelines...
You reek.
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