Posted on 05/06/2010 9:26:05 AM PDT by JoeSeales
Students Kicked Off Campus for Wearing American Flag Shirts on Cinco De Mayo..
I know this has probably already been posted, but this pissed me off somethin' awful this mornin..and I was having a good day..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9QlGMuZ8ic
You want to fix your country? Start with this kind of nonsense.
Video: KNTV San Fransisco
Students Kicked Off Campus for Wearing American Flag Tees on Cinco De Mayo
On any other day at Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill, Daniel Galli and his four friends would not even be noticed for wearing T-shirts with the American flag. But Cinco de Mayo is not any typical day especially on a campus with a large Mexican American student population.
Galli says he and his friends were sitting at a table during brunch break when the vice principal asked two of the boys to remove American flag bandannas that they wearing on their heads and for the others to turn their American flag T-shirts inside out. When they refused, the boys were ordered to go to the principal's office.
"They said we could wear it on any other day," Daniel Galli said, "but today is sensitive to Mexican-Americans because it's supposed to be their holiday so we were not allowed to wear it today."
The boys said the administrators called their T-shirts "incendiary" that would lead to fights on campus.
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Only for 'show'...
A few years ago when they had the pro-Amnesty rallies the marches were draped in a sea of foreign (Mexico) flags.
During the interview, one of the pro-Cinco del Mayo students was complaining how the students who were displaying the American flag were 'disrespecting' (... by the way - when did disrespect become a verb?) her country's flag... Argghh - to answer the second part of your question - her mindset was definitely that of a foreigner in America - not someone who wanted to be an American...
Anyone upset by another student wearing an American flag ought to be sent back to Mexico permanently.
Political tool is my guess. My friend would laugh when May 5th came. Basically, he said it was just
another excuse to drink/party and he did not celebrate it.
Kudos! A diplomatic and very effective solution. Thanks for
the reminder to think about what we WANT to happen as well as what we don’t want. We have an obligation to do more than complain. Hats off to you and your wife.
I lived right down the street from Live Oak High School - and my kids would be going there if I hadn’t sold the house and moved our business to Idaho 5 years ago. Lucky me - I would be crazy PO’d should I have a kid going to school with those bozos. I can see me getting stupid and confronting the administrators and looking for a piece of one of them. Not a good picture.
We brought our employees with us when we moved the business. They all are of the same opinion. ‘Pissed off’ falls short of the proper description.
Another example of Political Correctness corrupting everything it touches.
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