I used to live just a few miles from here, and drove past Morgan Hill every day on my drudge-drive to and from work…
About 200 Hispanic teens are marching in Morgan Hill yelling “We want respect!” and “Si se puede!” in reaction to a controversy ignited when the Live Oak High School principal effectively sent four students home for wearing T-shirts with American flags on them during Cinco de Mayo.
Mexican-American students felt the students were being disrespectful on the only day they celebrate their heritage while students sporting red, white and blue said it violated their First Amendment rights.
You want respect? Fine. Start by not acting like a bunch of jackasses, and recognize that this is the United States… and there’s no such thing as a day in which it is inappropriate to display the US flag.
The students say they want people to know they’re proud of their heritage and they believe wearing red, white and blue on Cinco de Mayo is disrespectful.
Goddamnitsomuch….
It’s prom weekend for juniors and seniors at Live Oak High School, and police are concerned about possible retaliatory gang violence against four students who were were reprimanded by a principal for wearing American flag apparel to the Morgan Hill, Calif., school on Cinco de Mayo.
Dominic Mac, one of the students who donned the American flag attire Wednesday, said during an interview on Fox News Friday morning that he’s been threatened. “I was texted on my phone in class during the last period, for me, and someone texted me and said, ‘Hey, Hispanics are coming back to Live Oak, we’ll be there after school,’ stuff like that.”
And then this:
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I guess I must have not been paying attention to the news on the day that the right never to be offended was created. Shame that I didn’t find out about it sooner, it could have come in very handy over the years.
No frickin’ kidding.
I am not sure who was offended. The school, the hispanic students, the non-hispanic students?????
Some people need to try an awful lot harder at minding their own damned business.
Jim
I sent a report of this to a woman who teaches first grade in “the worst school in the worst part” of a large city. Her response was that she doubted it was true.
Damn.
If the teachers deny the possibility of this sort of thing happening, they are truly disconnected from the real world they live in. They’ve been trained better than I ever thought possible. There’s no hope that government schools are going to make a useful change. They’re not supporting the culture that created them.
I think the thing that might have caused trouble was intent.
If the students that wore the American flag T-shirts did that on a regular basis, no trouble at all. If this was the first time they were seen wearing them, then it looks like the intention was to piss off the Hispanic students on Cinco de Mayo.
(Which is pretty strange in its own right, as Cinco de Mayo is a celebration of Mexico achieving a victory over French forces in 1862, and has nothing to do with the US…it would be as odd for American students to show up in American flag T-shirts on St. Patrick’s Day to show their solidarity with Britain over the damned Irish-Americans and what they have done to this nation.)
If the Hispanic students showed up wearing Mexican flag T-shirts on the anniversary of the fall of the Alamo that they they didn’t wear on other occasions, one could suspect that their primary intention was to piss off others also… except that that wouldn’t work, as back then they were under the control of Spain, which they were happy to get rid of also.
Okay, there has to be _some_ way to get this hate-war running right.
I suggest that Hispanic students wear Pancho Villa T-shirts on the anniversary of the attack on Columbus, New Mexico, and American ones wear “Black Jack” Pershing T-shirts.
> If this was the first time they were seen wearing them, then it looks like the intention was to piss off the Hispanic students on Cinco de Mayo.
Would you say the same about American students wearing US flag shirts on Bastille Day or Guy Fawkes Day or Great October Socialist Revolution Day or Shōwa Day? Those days, like Cinco De Mayo, are *not* American holidays. They are, within these borders, *meaningless.*
Consequently, the ones who should be held up as trying to piss people off are the ones celebrating Cinco De Mayo. It is *not* an American holiday. Hell, it’s not even a *Mexican* holiday; it’s a friggen’ beer companies holiday.
> If the Hispanic students showed up wearing Mexican flag T-shirts on the anniversary of the fall of the Alamo that they they didn’t wear on other occasions, one could suspect that their primary intention was to piss off others also…
The same applies ON EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR. If your allegience is to Mexico, that’s fine… but if your allegience is to Mexico but you live in the US, then either:
A) There’s something wrong with you
or
B) You are invading the US, and need to be ejected.
> I suggest that Hispanic students wear Pancho Villa T-shirts on the anniversary of the attack on Columbus, New Mexico, and American ones wear “Black Jack” Pershing T-shirts.
I suggest shirts like these:
The same could be said about me wearing my Irish Harp sweatshirt on St. Patrick’s Day…I don’t do it to denigrate my American heritage, but to celebrate my Irish heritage.
(and if St. Patrick’s Day isn’t a beer company holiday, nothing is.)
The same could be said for anyone wearing a Confederate battle flag T-shirt on Martin Luther King day…they are doing that with one idea in mind, and that’s to piss other people off.
Now my Che T-shirt might be a little questionable in that regard, but I never wear that outside for fear of getting lynched, and only rarely in the apartment – as the bright red color of the thing looks like I’m wearing a Komsomol pup-tent due to my weight, which I don’t need to be reminded of.
But let’s face it; Che had the commie revolutionary look down to a “T”, which is more than you can say for most of the last century’s bloody dictators: Mussolini was fat and overdressed, Castro was frumpy looking, Hitler looked anemic, Mao looked like he had eaten one too many plates of General Tso’s Chicken after the Long March, and despite the white uniform, you could tell that Stalin almost never washed and smelled like shit.
But Che…this guy could have brought Jane Fonda to orgasm just by looking at her, and probably did that several times via a photo of him.
Now as long as we are getting into the aspects that unwanted foreigners bring to our nation, let’s have a peek at those traitorous German immigrants, shall we?:
http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ht/39.1/images/frese_fig01b.jpg
You never talk about your ancestors on your blog…the ones who stole the plans for THE NORDEN BOMBSIGHT! 😀
“Now my Che T-shirt might be a little questionable in that regard, but I never wear that outside for fear of getting lynched,”
You must live in an area that is home to former Cubans, as they are the only ones who are actually aware that Che was a flaming racist and an unrepentant, murdering bastard.
“Che had the commie revolutionary look down to a “T”, which is more than you can say for most of the last century’s bloody dictators”
You know that when Che was captured, it was as he was trying to sneak out of a battle, and that when opposition soldiers found him, his first act was to throw his hands in the air and say, “Don’t kill me, I’m Che! I’m worth more to you alive than dead!” You knew that he was an incompetent revolutionary, an incompetent guerilla (sp?) commander, that he actually shot himself with his own gun once, and that he was an utter coward who was never in a single actual battle in his life?
Believe you me, Che was a amazingly pathetic individual and a miserable excuse for a human being. The only type of person Che was ever brave enough to actually go up against was a helpless one, and only thing impressive about him is just how thoroughly the world managed to whitewash his image.
Okay, but style figures in here big also, and Che had that Arianna Huffington aspect about him: “I was a 100% McCain supporter, but he let me down…then I was a 100% Obama supporter… but Obama let me down too…now I think Reese Witherspoon is putting on weight.”
It always ends up pretty pathetic at the end if you live too long, but nothing quite soars like the “revolutionary that the revolution betrayed” story concept for romanticism.
Just ask Thomas Paine, who unlike Nathan Hale, didn’t die at the right time with a great final speech. 🙂
Che was never going to fit into any revolution that Che didn’t end up as president for life of, despite the fact that being president for life of any country would severely cramp his style, so he kept running from point-to-point around the world looking for a new battle to fight “For The People”.
Intriguingly, this sounds a lot like Oriana Fallaci, who was fighting Mussolini as a left-wing anti-fascist child, then turned on the left after she decided that they had their head up their ass and got shot, finally deciding that she really wanted to do was kill all Muslims no matter what their political bent was, because they are God-damned Muslims.
I think this character type was neatly illuminated by Miguel de Cervantes in “Don Quixote”.
A battle to the death must be fought against “something”, and they are just looking for the “something” to die heroically while fighting against.
Well, Roger Ebert would have passed an M1A2 after election day when I flew the flag of the old Soviet Union at my house…
P.S: Every time I see recent photos of Roger Ebert, all can think of is that scene out of “Batman” where the Joker takes the bandages off of his head and sees what the doctor’s work has left his face looking like in the mirror.
“Roger Ebert is dead my friend…you can call me ‘The Critic”…as you can see, I’m much happier now.”:
http://www.upvery.com/attachments/images/201003/20100303171116.jpg
Jesus Christ, just dye his hair green.
Couldn’t the doc just have given him some sort of neutral expression?
And as a PS to that, what would have _really_ been something to see in the Batman movie; Conrad Veidt in “The Man Who Laughs” movie make-up from 1928, which led to the Joker character in the Batman comics:
http://www.denofgeek.com/siteimage/scale/800/600/27821.png
Can you imagine Jack Nicholson looking like that?
You would have shit your pants.
Huffington Post vs. New York Post:
If anyone can spot the difference between the style of their headlines, please inform me about what it is:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
> The same could be said about me wearing my Irish Harp sweatshirt on St. Patrick’s Day…I don’t do it to denigrate my American heritage, but to celebrate my Irish heritage.
Here’s the difference: I’ve not heard of Americans of Irish descent marching up and down the streets pissed off that someone in the US dared to fly or wear a US flag; demanding that US schools teach and the government operate in the Irish language; demanding that large portions of the US be ethnically segregated, separated and turned over to Irish control.
The Irish, a hundred and fifty years ago, fought for the right to be considered Americans. Can you say the same for La Raza?
Cinco de Mayo is not a Mexican “holiday”, it is a marketing gimmick from the makers of Corona, and it is not anything comparable to American Independence Day. As for the offended “hispanic” students, ship their a$$es back to Mexico. Bubye. If they are so proud of Mexico what the hell are they doing here.
After all the official and formal pressure to celebrate other countries and to denigrate America, I’m not surprised some kids did this. Resistance to what adults prefer is a central aspect of being that age. If the hispanic kids riots, it shows that they can’t be civilized.
Corona started it? I didn’t know that. Thanks.