Protesters: Mexican Flag Symbol of Pride

AP via Yahoo! News ^ | 4/6/06 | Amanda Lee Myers

[raybbr]

Here's a group of fellas who are just showing their pride of their race. What's the big deal?

Is that a recent photo? Or, can't you come up with a good argument either?

[yooling]

Rush put it best.

They've already jumped the shark.

You can't come back from that.

[saminfl]

Southerners who display the Confederate flag say the same thing, yet they are lambasted for their display.

[snowman1]

Teddy Roosevelt said it best "THERE IS ONLY ROOM FOR THE AMERICAN FLAG" if you want to pledge allegiance to any other you are not welcome.

[roaddog727]

"The American flag is a symbol of what they are trying to become — a U.S. citizen," she said.

Well then you should be waving the Stars and Stripes.

[spankalib]

LOL. Thanks for the bumper sticker....first time I've seen it.

[absolootezer0]

sounds like a lot of contradiction. ok, i can see a mexican wanting to be american, and i can see them waving a mexican flag for cultural pride- altho i don't see anything to be proud of. but when you add the signs that call for reclaimation of azatlan.. the message changes to one of foreign invasion. with signs that say "we want this land" and waving the flag of another country, i see that as an act of war.

[Milhous]

With any luck communist flags intermingled with Mexican flags will enhance their loud and clear message on May 1st.

[oldleft]

The argument is that as a culture we don't tolerate claims of racial superiority in the 21st century. "Viva la Raza" is at least a claim of one race over another, and at worst a claim that said race is superior. It is also symptomatic of a separatist mentality.

That's what I was trying to relate by putting up a picture of the KKK.

[oldleft]

I suspect we'll see a "sea of red." For my part, I'm going on a spending spree and smoking big cigars all day.

[PzLdr]

If they're so "proud", why did they leave?

[petkus]

The MEXICAN FLAG IS A SIGN OF CONTEMPT FOR THE USA!

[D-Chivas]

"Nobody gets upset with the Irish on St. Patrick's Day," said Gabriela Lemus, director of policy and legislation at the Washington, D.C.-based League of United Latin American Citizens, the group that organized most of the recent protests and is heading the dozens of marches and rallies scheduled across the nation Monday

Boy, nothing reinforces the myth of the "dumb Mexican" more than having an ignorant posterior rambling on without any knowledge of the Irish Diaspora.

[Sam Hill]

"It was American demand that brought about the creation of Free Ireland ~ the Brits agreed as part of the price paid for our aid in WWI."

I have to say you have the *most* bizarro concept of history of anyone I have ever come across.

Irish War of Independence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Irish_War

[azhenfud]

"...they say a display of cultural unity is being mistaken as a lack of loyalty to the United States..."

So, the burning of the Stars and Stripes without condemnation of the perps was a sign of loyalty to the US? The US flag being hoisted upside down below Mexico's without condemnation of those perps was a sign of loyalty to this nation?

Yeah. Right.

[azhenfud]

"Possibly racist bigots."

Now, now. Don't you know you can't be both brown-skinned and a "racist bigot"?