Students Wearing American Flag Shirts Sent Home on Cinco de Mayo

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Wasn't sure whether to post this in From the News or Politics


Morgan Hill, CA
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 if we tried to go back to class with our shirts not taken off, they said it was defiance and we would get suspended," Dominic Maciel, Galli's friend, said.

The boys really had no choice, and went home to avoid suspension. They say they're angry they were not allowed to express their American pride. Their parents are just as upset, calling what happened to their children, "total nonsense."

"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."

The boys said the administrators called their T-shirts "incendiary" that would lead to fights on campus.

"They said if we tried to go back to class with our shirts not taken off, they said it was defiance and we would get suspended," Dominic Maciel, Galli's friend, said.

MORE:http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local-beat/Students-Wearing-American-Flag-Shirts-Sent-Home-92945969.html

[WhiteLotus]

It's just stupid. Same as the English can't celebrate St Georges day, but we can celebrate every other day... which is just crazy.

This will set a precedent for you guys, got to make sure no-one gets there feelings hurt these days. Can't dare encroach on some ones national day!

[Papahyooie]

Omfg...

I begin to hate our pansy-ass, overly sensitive, politically-correct, no-balls countrymen more and more every single day...

I'm sorry, but if someone told me to take off an American flag shirt in my own damn country, no matter WHAT day it is, and no matter WHO they are, I would flip them the double-bird, tell them to shove it up their asses, and take the damn suspension. (though it sounds like the kids in the article handled it as well as they could. They went home, and therefore didn't get suspended, but didn't compromise thier patriotism by taking them off either... plus they got a free half-day vacation.) I dont really give a fuck if the day is sensitive to mexican-americans. They can wear thier own damn shirts, and I'll never say a damn word to them. In fact, they'll be celebrated on such a day for thier diversity, and more power to them. I don't wish it were the other way around (eg, they cant wear thier mexican t-shirts or celebrate thier holiday) because America is made up of many nationalities, but I'll be damned if the day comes when an American, whether black white brown red or pink and purple polka dotted, cannot display an American flag in America. When one immigrates to America, they become Americans. I have no problem with this, and welcome any nationality to be a part of our nation. But when they took an oath, part of it said "forsaking any other ties." That means from that day forward, they are, above anything else, an American. They can wave thier mexican flags any day of the week as far as I'm concerned... but they'd better wave an American flag just above and to the right.
The sad part is, the mexican americans probably didn't give a fuck... it was some pansy-ass, pencil-necked old white administrators who don't care about patriotism, only about not pissing people off. And that makes me sick.

/rant off.

EDIT: okay i missed the part where the mexican-americans were angry about it. They were pissed off... which makes me even more pissed off. They don't even really celebrate cinco de mayo in mexico... it's like labor day here, nobody really cares.

Omg, I want to punch someone in the face right now.

[DannibusX]

Dude. What the fuck is going on in California? If they don't wish for students to wear a shirt with the flag of this nation on it, then they shouldn't be celebrating a foreign nations independence.

If they were so independent would they need to flood over our borders illegally to escape the cartels and corruption or to find work to take care of their families? GTFO.

Edit: Google schooled my on Cinco de Mayo, and it's not Mexico's Independence Day. They can still fuck off though.

[Papahyooie]

It gets worse.

http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local-beat/Flag-T-shirt-Controversy-Day-Two-92988244.html

Oh I fucking hate these people right now... don't get me wrong, I dont hate mexicans... I hate idiots and assholes.

[Reventon]

That's fucking ridiculous. I would have worn my shirt and put my bandanna down over my mouth. No shirts with their American flags? We fucking in the USA...

[yogurt_21]

lmao total california bull crap didn't they let a amn run for governor whose entire campaign was based on wanting to give california back to mexico? Bustemonte I believe.

in AZ this would never have flow and a quick new poll would have the superintendant of the school distict forcing the principle and vice principle nto suspension until the case could be reviewed. They likely would be permanenntly removed for such an action.

[El Fiendo]

Wow, I'm pretty pissed off at this shit too.

<severe snippage due to inflammatory remarks and choice of wording>

Serious, you don't want to read the paragraphs I wrote over this absurd bullshit. Absolutely absurd.

"We don't want equality, we want a pedestal!" Fuckheads.

[Wile E]

Wow, I'm pretty pissed off at this shit too.

<severe snippage due to inflammatory remarks and choice of wording>

Serious, you don't want to read the paragraphs I wrote over this absurd bullshit. Absolutely absurd.

"We don't want equality, we want a pedestal!" Fuckheads.

And that about sums it up. Anybody that want's a pedestal needs to go back to their home country.

[jmcslob]

Wow...Wow....Wow.....WTF......REALLY?

Mexican Americans were upset because other Americans wore Shirts with the American Flag in an American School...

I surely wouldn't be offended if someone did the same on ST.Patricks Day...

I say Fire the Vice Principal Suspend the students who walked out/got angry over this...
and Apologize to the students that had to leave/ got sent home...

If these people get like this for that maybe they should go show their pride of Mexico In Mexico..

I'm so sick of this Bullshit of bend over for the Minority or immigrant shit...Don't like it LEAVE MOTHERFUCKER

WTF we are descendants of or are immigrants here WHY THE FUCK do these people feel they have to be treated any different than any other group...
When was the last time you heard this BS from the Chinese or Greeks or Russians or Italians or Germans or Spanish or Arabs or Indians (from India) or Hungarians etc etc...
They keep they're traditions but they sure as fuck don't try to force it everybody else...

And I'm sorry it's called the Forth of July FUCKERS not Cinco de Mayo we are in the United States not Mexico and for christ sakes Mexico declared it's Independence from Spain on September 15th in 1810..You would think they could at least get the fucking Day right..Ignorant fucks ( yes I know it's from May 5th 1865ish when they finally kicked out the french but they still declared independence on 9/15)

[Flyordie]

lmao total california bull crap didn't they let a amn run for governor whose entire campaign was based on wanting to give california back to mexico? Bustemonte I believe.

in AZ this would never have flow and a quick new poll would have the superintendant of the school distict forcing the principle and vice principle nto suspension until the case could be reviewed. They likely would be permanenntly removed for such an action.

I shall refer you to Tinker vs Des Moines Ind. School District.

In our system, state-operated schools may not be enclaves of totalitarianism. School officials do not possess absolute authority over their students. Students in school as well as out of school are "persons" under our Constitution. They are possessed of fundamental rights which the State must respect, just as they themselves must respect their obligations to the State. In our system, students may not be regarded as closed-circuit recipients of only that which the State chooses to communicate. They may not be confined to the expression of those sentiments that are officially approved. In the absence of a specific showing of constitutionally valid reasons to regulate their speech, students are entitled to freedom of expression of their views. As Judge Gewin, speaking for the Fifth Circuit, said, school officials cannot suppress "expressions of feelings with which they do not wish to contend."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinker_v._Des_Moines_Independent_Community_School_ District

If the family sues, the admins are gone.

[Papahyooie]

If the family sues, the admins are gone.

Dude, send that to the families email. Its available in the feed on that page.

[theJesus]

"They said if we tried to go back to class with our shirts not taken off, they said it was defiance and we would get suspended," Dominic Maciel, Galli's friend, said.
Fucking pedos.