Because we can’t offend the Mexicans who get here, benefit from the public school system while refusing to integrate.
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.”
Ed has Laura Ingraham’s interview of the kids’ parents:
The part I find funny is that in Mexico it’s only recently that Cinco de Mayo even has some recognition as an important date. But it is neither a national holiday nor an even better excuse of six-packs of Modelo or Pacifico.
What is going on in this country. In Mexico they don’t even celebrate 5 de Mayo this is completely sick. Why people are afraid of Mexicans. The white community needs to take their country back.
So, on St Patrick’s Day and Columbus Day students who wear the American Flag are sent sent home so as not to offend the Irish and the Italians? Did the principal take down the American Flag flying on the school grounds?
This whole thing bugs me. The main reason is that Cinco de Mayo is NO BIG DEAL to most
Mexicans. It is mostly the Americans restaurant owners and the people of the Mexican state,
Puebla (where the Mexicans secured victory in battle over the French)who celebrate the 5th
of May. This day in no way is a National holiday in Mexico like September 16th (Mexico’s
equivalent of America’s July 4th. Check out my blog for more details. W.C.C.
http://pjmonolog.blogspot.com/2010/05/la-historia-of-may-5th.html
I am sending today an American Flag Tee Shirt to:
Live Oak High School
1505 East Main Ave.
Morgan Hill CA 95037
Y’all need to email these folks and tell them they can’t treat their students like foreigners in their own country!
I put their email and phone numbers on my blog
http://glennhendrickson.blogspot.com/2010/05/students-kicked-off-campus-for-wearing.html