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But Mexicans weren't offended; Mexican Americans were!
Mexican Americans offended by the American flag should just go straight to Mexico
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36981179?GT1=43001
Are you ing kidding??
Students Kicked Off Campus for Wearing American Flag TeesBy George Kiriyama
NBCBayArea.com
updated 3:29 p.m. ET May 6, 2010
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.
"They said if we tried to go back to class with our shirts not taken off, they said it was defiance and we would get suspended," Dominic Maciel, Galli's friend, said.
The boys really had no choice, and went home to avoid suspension. They say they're angry they were not allowed to express their American pride. Their parents are just as upset, calling what happened to their children, "total nonsense."
"I think it's absolutely ridiculous," Julie erstrom, Maciel's mom, said. "All they were doing was displaying their patriotic nature. They're expressing their individuality."
But to many Mexican-American students at Live Oak, this was a big deal. They say they were offended by the five boys and others for wearing American colors on a Mexican holiday.
"I think they should apologize cause it is a Mexican Heritage Day," Annicia Nunez, a Live Oak High student, said. "We don't deserve to be get disrespected like that. We wouldn't do that on Fourth of July."
As for an apology, the boys and their families say, 'fat chance.'
"I'm not going to apologize. I did nothing wrong," Galli said. "I went along with my normal day. I might have worn an American flag, but I'm an American and I'm proud to be an American."
The five boys and their families met with a Morgan Hill Unified School District official Wednesday night. The district and the school do not see eye-to-eye on the incident and released the following statement:
The district does not concur with the Live Oak High School administration's interpretation of either board or district policy related to these actions.
The boys will not be suspended and were allowed to return to school
Thursday. We spotted one of them when he got to campus -- and, yes, he was sporting an American flag T-shirt.
American kids not allowed to wear American shirts because Mexicans are offended...
But Mexicans weren't offended; Mexican Americans were!
Mexican Americans offended by the American flag should just go straight to Mexico
you see
this is how ing low we have sunk
seriously. it's time to go ARIZONA on their asses.
These immigrants are not coming here to be americans. They are coming here to suck our blood, they don't give a about america.
ridiculous.
I heard one of those guys has a Hispanic parent which makes this even more stupid.
Yeah like America hasn't been sucking blood in other countries since 1945
Since when can you wear bandannas in gradeschool?
ing ridiculous. Wear American flag shirts, Mexican flag shirts, ing Saudi Arabia flag shirts, why should anyone care?
... And mow my grass for $15, clean my gutters for $10, rake my leaves for $15, and carry heavy from my truck to my house for a plate of tacos. That white asshole in the online classifieds wants over $100 for most of that , and the black dudes won't do it at all. So you, Arizona, leave my cheap labor alone.
Foolish for the school to encroach on their rights, but seriously...I wasn't allowed to wear bandannas to school...
The bandanas part I can understand. A lot of schools including my old high school don't allow head gear. But as far as the shirts...un inbelievable. Do these dumb s understand that cinco de mayo has NOTHING to do with American history? It's not an American holiday! "They were disrespecting my heritage." Well guess what, I won't be offended if you wear an American shirt on the day when the Scottish defeated the English because that's just as irrelevant to us as Americans as cinco de mayo. Anyone who was offended should drop ing dead
This is posted in the Political thread if you guys want to talk there, under the heading "Am I A Neocon Now?" or something similar.
Well yea, except those kids probably weren't born in Mexico and thus have no claim to the whole "hyphenated nationality" tag that EVERYONE seems to take for granted without thinking of the difference between cultural iden y and national iden y.But Mexicans weren't offended; Mexican Americans were!
Mexican Americans offended by the American flag should just go straight to Mexico
Another thing I don't understand is when people put little Mexican flags on their vehicles...if they have that much pride, why don't they go back and clean up their country?
that pisses me off. that wouldnt happen in sananto.
the 210 is strait with everyone.
Poor kids got sent home from school and got to be on TV. Sucks to be them.
If those kids wear American flag t-shirts all the time, fine. If they specifically wore the flag shirts on Cinco de Mayo to with everybody, that makes them assholes. But sending them home was the wrong move - just gives ammunition to the crazies.
Whenever a disaster happens anywhere in the world who's the first country to pledge millions upon millions of dollars?Yeah like America hasn't been sucking blood in other countries since 1945
GTFO
lol that's crazy. ridiculous.
Reminds me of some schools in christian countries in europe where they dont put up christmas trees anymore (which is a yearly tradition at every school) because muslim immigrant students at those schools could feel offended by them.
At Trinity University there is a non-christian group that wants "God" taken out of the schools diplomas. I don't know if it still is but when the university was founded, it started as a "christian" school. If they would've done some research they would've known. Dumbasses!!!!
This is a perfect example of wacky, Bay Area political correctness gone wild. Not surprising to me at all.
Makes it wrong? They. live. in. ing. America.
inb4 American kids get busted for wearing American shirts on non-American day in America.
Thats called investment
If the school officials did not also lower the American flag flying in front of the school, then the students have a basic case for discrimination. Since the administrators therefore had no policy against the display of the US flag, there must have been some other reason for their actions against the students.
I wonder what they think the name "Trinity" is referring to.
brunch break?
Californians
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