http://action.afa.net/Blogs/BlogPost.aspx?id=2147494088This almost defies belief. Five American high school students in America were forced to go home or face suspension for wearing American flag shirts on Cinco De Mayo. Because, after all, we wouldn't want to offend anyone by our patriotism, would we?
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, but today is sensitive to Mexican Americans because it's supposed to be their holiday so we were not allowed to wear it today," Daniel Galli said.
The boys said the administrators called their t-shirts "incendiary" that would lead to fights on campus.
Have we really stooped to such a low in America that shirts bearing the image of our flag are considered "incendiary"? And now fellow students want an apology from the boys for so callously displaying their patriotism in their native land.
"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."
Well, Ms. Nunez, there's a reason you wouldn't wear a Mexican flag shirt on July 4th: This is the United States of America! If you don't like the American flag, go to another country. There is not apology forthcoming from the school. And don't cross your fingers about the ACLU getting involved this; defending the right to show patriotism isn't exactly their type of case.
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