why do mexicans find the American flag so offensive when they are living in the USA? Question: http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2010/05/t ensions-high-in-fallout-over-students-wearing-american-flag-t-shi rts-on-cinco-de-mayo/1
Tensions remain high at a California high school where four students were sent home this week for wearing American flag T-shirts to school on Cinco de Mayo in what an assistant principal considered a possible provocation toward Hispanic students.
As the story gained wider attention, about 200 Hispanic students from Live Oak school skipped classes on Thursday to march to Morgan Hills city hall to express their displeasure over the action by the four on Wednesday on what many Hispanic students consider the equivalent of a national holiday.
"I think they should apologize 'cause it is a Mexican Heritage Day," Annicia Nunez told San Jose's KNTV. "We don't deserve to get disrespected like that. We wouldn't do that on Fourth of July."
Parents of the four students said the boys were just being patriotic and displaying their individuality.
The boys, who have since returned to school, said administrators called their T-shirts "incendiary" and said they would lead to fights on campus, KNTV reports.
As the controversy swirled, the school district issued a statement calling the incident "extremely unfortunate" and said it was investigating.
"While campus safety is our primary concern and administrators made decisions yesterday in an attempt to ensure campus safety, students should not and will not be disciplined for wearing patriotic clothing," the statement read.
During Thursday's march, several cars and trucks bearing American flags repeatedly drove past the crowd, The Morgan Hills Times reports.
The teens responded by yelling "Give us respect!" but some screamed obscenities, the newspaper reports. At least three people driving yelled derogatory slurs at the largely Hispanic group.
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This isn't going to be PC, so if you're brain-dead and, because of that are easily upset, don't read this.
In my humble opinion, the administration who sent the kids home for expressing their support for their country should be fired... no tenure... no pension... no benefits. The Hispanic kids should be expelled for skipping class for no reason.
Here's the deal. "America" doesn't hate Mexicans. Mexico, last time I looked was on the American Continent. Technically, if they learned how to read, they would find that it's called "Central America."
People in the US don't generally hate Mexicans. Personally, though, I do have a problem with people who sneak into this country illegally... on whatever pretext... from Mexico... or any other country... and who claim they own it... require me to teach classes in their language because they're too stupid or too lazy to learn ours (were you to go to their countries, if you don't speak their language you wouldn't get an education)... who cheat the system by not declaring income, and because they have no (declared) income, they're able to get welfare and other benefits... and who for some moronic reason seem to think they own this country.
I have an aversion to people who enter this country illegally, don't even attempt to become legal citizens, and, as criminals (breaking the law entering the country, and by not making any effort to legalize their presence here), expect protection by the law. I checked with an attorney, and the only legal right an illegal alien has is to be deported. They're have no legal recourse. They have no right to incarceration. They have no right to a trial. They have no right to fair and humane treatment.
Mexico NEVER owned any part of California. Spain did. And Spain swiped it from the indigenous "Indians." And the Indians didn't own it either. They immigrated from North Eastern Europe over what is now the Aleutian Islands, but what were then a land-bridge between the two continents. And they killed the former residents (the animals), and ate them.
The fact is, that no real estate is actually "owned" by people. It's acquired and occupied. Sometimes it's acquired by purchase, sometimes by war, and sometimes people just move in and occupy land that nobody else seems interested in defending. Every once in a while, the Earth tries to remind us of the fact we don't own the lane. Every once in a while there's a flood, a fire, an earthquake, a hurricane, a tsunami, a tornado, or other natural occurrence.
As for the illegal aliens, that's what they are. They are, by definition, illegal because they broke the law by entering this country illegally. They know it's illegal because they sneaked in. And they intend to remain illegal because they don't do anything to legalize their residence. They are criminals by intent.
They are aliens by definition because their loyalty is not to the country in which they live. Their loyalty is to the country they pretend to have left. An "immigrant" is one who renounces his/her loyalty to the country he/she left, adopts the laws and culture of the country he/she selects as a residence, and assimilates into that country as a productive citizen.
We have legal aliens. These are people who are here on student visas, or for medical purposes, or maybe a work visa. We have illegal immigrants. These are people who have been forced to flee from their country, but who, in their flight, were unable to secure the proper paperwork, but who are in the process of legalizing their residence. And we have legal immigrants... people who entered the country legally with the intent to be come citizens... productive members of this society.
It is the 23 million illegal aliens from Mexico that are souring the citizens of this country against that country and the people who come from there. And that goes for quite a few Hispanic citizens of this country too.
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