And then my head exploded....
"Five Live Oak High School students' First Amendment rights were challenged this morning when they were asked to leave school because they donned American flag T-shirts on Cinco de Mayo. Officials at the school chose not to comment on the situation, but one student said an official called the T-shirts "incendiary."
"They said we were starting a fight, we were fuel to the fire," said sophomore Matt Dariano."
This is just plain wrong.
Wrong, wrong, wrong!
If you find the American Flag to be 'offensive' or 'incendiary', don't live in the USA...
Cinco de Mayo remembers the unexpected defeat of the French Army by the Juarists at the Battle of Pueblo near Vera Cruz and is not a Mexican federal holiday but has evolved into a commemoration of Hispanic culture and achievement in some of the northern areas of Mexico and throughout the USA by Mexican Americans.It is supposed to be a celebration on a more serious level than St Patrick's Day but not some politically correct compulsory bow down by those who chose not to get into the spirit of the day. The students involved in the wearing of American flags might have been quietly obnoxious but the school's facist admin staff need a trip to the woodshed post haste.
The admin staff should be run out of town on a rail.
I thought that this was a hoax - it had just seemed too surreal to be true.
Wish it was.
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