Posted on 06/06/2021 4:43:39 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
A North Carolina high school student was denied his diploma for wearing a Mexican flag over his graduation gown.
Ever Lopez draped a Mexican flag over his blue gown at Asheboro High School's graduation ceremony Thursday night.
Livestreamed video footage from the ceremony shows the principal ask him to take the flag off. After an unsuccessful attempt to take it off, he was handed his diploma holder, which the other students also received. But after walking across the stage, he was denied his actual diploma.
Lopez told ABC News, "When I got up there I went for the handshake and I wasn't thinking nothing of it and I heard her say, 'You can't wear that.' And I was in shock and confused. I was like, 'What?' She was like, 'The flag. You can't wear that.'"
The incident has sparked outrage and led to a protest outside the school Friday. However, the school district insists that Lopez's actions "violated the ceremony's dress code" and "the incident is not about the Mexican flag."
Lopez said he wore the flag to honor his family as he's the first to graduate from high school in his immediate family.
"It means everything to me," Lopez told ABC News of wearing the Mexican flag. "My parents, my whole family, is from over there. I did it for them because they had a rough childhood; they didn't get the scholarship that I got, or they didn't get to go to school like I did. So ... representing my flag and getting a diploma was really important to me because I was basically doing it for my family."
Lopez said the school asked him to apologize as a condition of receiving his diploma.
"I don't know why I should apologize because I did nothing wrong," Lopez said.
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Deport him to Mexico, even if it means revoking his citizenship.
Young man, your flag is not the Mexican flag! Your country is not Mexico. Your parents are not graduating - you are.
Should have worn a BLM flag
Deport him to the Atlantic Ocean, the nearest border.
I guess he wanted to make a statement, and so did they.
Others are not required to like to hear what you are telling them.
Welcome to consequence culture.
So maybe if you’re “so proud” of your heritage you should’ve gotten your education provided and paid for by Mexico instead of us?
Life in Xiden’s America. “Let me honor the flag of the country that treated my family so poorly they went to America.” At one point do 60% of the population (as opposed to 49%) wake up and realize that immigration in the 21st century is a curse not a blessing.
As a person of Italian heritage I often see ( especially in places like my native Bronx) people with Italian flag stickers on their cars. I find it more than distasteful. You or your forebears decided that Italy was a crap hole with no chance to get ahead yet you revere it? I can see posting the flag or just the colors on your Italian restaurant or pork store. That makes economic sense.
This is America. We have no room for hyphenated citizens nor fealty to foreign nations here
So which country gave him this opportunity???
Pompp and pendejo.
Must be a heck of a low down family.
They can't even finish high school in 2021?
Even LeBron James managed to finish high school. Barely. Chuckle.
Others are not required to like to hear what you are telling them.
———Freedom of Speech does not include the requirement of others to even listen, much less agree.
“It means everything to me,” Lopez told ABC News “
Then why didn’t you get your diploma in Mexico, dumbass? America gives you peace money and freedom, including the freedom to ignore certain laws and you respond by
honoring the shit hole you left and apparently didn’t care enough about to stay and make better.
UNGRATEFUL wretch.
Deport them all.
What I find most interesting is that the recent immigrants from Ireland generally have no interest in their Irish heritage, but the dopes whose families have been here for 100+ years have some kind of childish infatuation with their peasant origins.
He says it is his flag, so Mexico must be his country.
He doesn’t deserve a diploma.
“Your country is not Mexico.”
He says it is - we should take him at his word and have ICE escort him back to his country.
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