Calif. School Bans American Flag Clothing For Non-Existent Mexican Holiday?
-By Warner Todd Huston
California schools really do hate America. In California apparently you are a bad little boy if you wear to school clothing adorned with the good ol’ Red, White and Blue. You get thrown out, in fact. At least that is what happened to several patriotic American boys that attend Comunidad Educativa Vivo Roble in California… oh, wait, that is the Live Oak High School in California. With all the dissing of America going on in California I thought the school had changed its name. Sorry.
For the Gilroy Dispatch Lindsay Bryant reports that five young students of Live Oak High School in Gillroy, California were kicked out of school on Cinco de Mayo because they dared to wear the venerable American colors while all the Mexican students were wearing the Green, White and Red colors of the Mexican flag. According to Assistant Principal Miguel Rodriguez these evil American children were “starting a fight.”
The New America: Physically fit boys in American Themed Clothes = Baaaad
Yeah, in American schools you are “starting a fight” when you wear America themed clothing but innocent as the driven snow when you are sporting the colors of foreign nations. Bryant reports that over 100 students were seen in the Mexican colors. One rather corpulent girl-child even painted her face and various overly exposed body parts with the celebratory colors.
One Mexican-American student, freshman Laura Ponce, had a Mexican flag painted on her face and chest, peaking out of her low-cut shirt. She did it because, “it’s our day, the only day we can show our spirit.” A school administrator took away the Mexican flag she was carrying as she was waiting to go home. Ponce said: “not cool.”
Even the morbidly obese can celebrate Cinco de Mayo, hold the lettuce. But don’t go wearing any of those evil, evil Red, White and Blue clothes!
The New America: Morbidly Obese Girls in Mexican Themed Clothes = Gooood
I am sure that Assistant Principal Miguel Rodriguez only speaks Spanish, I mean I can’t imagine him sullying his delicate mouth with the guttural sound of English, so let me help him out with what these fine young boys were exhibiting. It’s called patriotism, Mr. Rodriguez…. oh, yeah, sorry… I mean patriotismo Estados Unidos de América. Forgot your hatred of things American/English there for a second, Mr. Rodriguez. My most fulsome apologies.
But it is amazing that this whole Cinco de Mayo thing is such a contentious event, anyway. First of all every American should understand that Cinco de Mayo is not an official holiday in Mexico. Not only that but here in the U.S. people claim it is “Mexican Independence Day,” which is also not true — that would be Sept. 16. On top of all that, Cinco de Mayo is only celebrated in the U.S. because beer companies and other capitalist businesses pushed it in order to sell more stuff to Mexican-minded residents. So, I am torn. I want to celebrate a good American capitalist venture, yet am conflicted because the faux celebration has been used by America’s enemies — like the aforementioned Mr. Rodriguez — to tear her down.
But, that last thing really is funny to me. Most Mexican activists are commies yet they are persisting in pushing a faux holiday created by beer companies in order to destroy their host country! Isn’t that a bit ironic?
So, what the heck. Viva la Cinco de Mayo, that’s what I say! Who needs America the light of freedom and liberty to the world, eh Mr. Rodriguez? After all in what nation can you make more money than anyone you know, retire at 50, and then make dozens of times more money in pension payments? In what country can you get handed power over your fellows despite your hatred for that country? And in what country can you stand proud to subvert your host nation in order to advocate foreign ideals? Certainly not in that evil U.S.A..!
Yeah. Mexico is so much better, right Mr. Rodriguez?
You simpering, ungrateful, worm of an un-American cretin, you. How do you say THAT in Spanish?
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Posted by Warner Todd Huston on May 6, 2010 6:04 pm
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I am on your side on this one. However, you do your argument no favors when you go after the fat teenage girl for being fat.
Heck, she isn’t just fat. She’s fat, stupid, ignorant, ungrateful, toadish, AND dresses like a whore. Is that better?
If we ban it in schools because someone might be offended, then I guess the liberals next step will be to take them down everywhere. Imagine: no flags at any schools, law enforcement, fire department, post offices, or federal government facilities. Then there will be no flags at private homes. If you are proud of your heritage, thats fantastic! Celebrate your heritage! But if you are offended by our flag, GO BACK TO WHERE YOU CAME FROM! That little piece of cloth represents OUR nation and if it offends you then you don’t deserve to be a part of us.
This is so true!!!
Oh and Dan, our country was founded by immigrants from other country’s who mostly all adorned their own flags. I’m an American born, mostly German but mixed American, I believe that everyone should be able to represent for their own culture/heritage. Just because they tote around Mexican flags on a ‘holiday’, doesn’t mean they are disrespecting our country. I think if anything these kids who wore the American flags may have had the intent of being disrespectful towards the other teens who were supporting their own country. If that was not the case and was testified by other students who were actually there to witness what happened, then they should have the right to represent the American flag.
@Kendall,
I would agree if the principal also excluded every student adoprned in the Mexican flag. But, he didn’t.
Immigrants are we all, except the Native Americans, buyt the larger subtext is that we are losing our own American Identity with the influx of prefixes: Italian Americans, African-Americans, Mexican-Americans, etc…ad nauseum.
G;lad you’re of German by lineage. Strap on the clockens and dance away at Oktoberfest. Just don’t kick the guys wearing Old Glory in the nuts while doing so.
“I think if anything these kids who wore the American flags may have had the intent of being disrespectful towards the other teens who were supporting their own country.”
Kendall, if “their” flag is Mexican then why are they here in America. I have no problem with people flying the flag of their heritage be it Mexican, Puerto Rican or Irish BUT this is the United States of America and the stars and stripes is “THEIR” flag if they are citizens. They should not be offended by it. If they are and prefer the Mexican flag only then go to Mexico. Don’t come here to the USA and say our flag offends you and we should take it down. It is not an offensive symbol. And FYI one of the kids who was wearing the offensive American Flag was a mexican american. So what is wrong with that? This could be in a George Orwell novel. Absolutely amazing…and not in a good way.
wow, yeah california sucks. my school has a red white and blue day each month, cause our mascot is the patriot. we’re in illinois though. I can beleive someone would get kicked out of school because they wore red white and blue.
The ACLU took the students side in this issue. How did that not make it into your article? I guess it doesn’t fit the narrative of a blog called Stop the ACLU, but it’s an important piece of information to include when you’re presenting reasons why the ACLU should be stopped. It seems like you want to paint them as only defending “others” but here’s an example of them defending people you think deserve support. So then the issue is really just that you don’t want an organization defending ANYONE’s civil liberties?
Here is the letter the ACLU sent to the School.
“Last week, five students at Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill, Calif., were sent home on Cinco de Mayo for wearing T-shirts bearing the American flag. The students were reportedly sent home after Vice Principal Miguel Rodriguez told them the shirts posed a “safety issue” on a day celebrating Mexican heritage.
Punishing students for wearing T-shirts with the American flag is a clear violation of their free speech rights. The ACLU of Northern California responded to the incident by sending a letter (PDF) to Morgan Hill Schools Superintendant Dr. Wesley Smith, reminding him of the speech rights students are entitled to under the U.S. Constitution and California law.
The letter points out that students’ wearing of the American flag wouldn’t have been controversial but for the interest of other students in celebrating their Mexican heritage on Cinco de Mayo. The students’ patriotic display was particularly meaningful because of the context, and their right to express their patriotism in light of that context must be honored. The right to wear an American flag every day but Cinco de Mayo would do little to advance the important work of the First Amendment, whose protections must be enforced every day.
There is another important lesson for the school here. For displays of the American flag to create such a strong concern about disruption, it’s likely the school has underlying racial and cultural tensions that need attention. Using censorship to suppress student speech is exactly the wrong thing to do in this kind of situation. While the school superintendent did make a statement reaffirming the school district’s support for students’ speech rights, it’s also important that the Live Oak teachers and administrators use this incident as an opportunity to teach students tolerance, diversity and mutual respect.”
Lisa, it “didn’t make it in the article” because when the article was posted the ACLU hadn’t taken the case yet. DUH!!!!