School kicks out 5 students for wearing American flag clothing

• CenterBHSFan

  

  Strapping Young Lad wrote: These dudes were trying to arouse tension and that's what they got.
  
  Like I asked, why would these patriots pick this day to wear the shirts. The one dude was wearing fucking swim trunks to school. I'm willing to bet that he never wore his swim trunks to school prior to this.
  
  So, give me your most educated guess as to why they chose this day to show how they are just soooooo patriotic......
  
  They wanted attention they got it, they wanted to get the hispanic students pissed off and they succeeded.....What's the problem????

  I'd like to know what the problem was with the hispanic students and principle? Why would they get all pissy to see a small group of AMERICAN students in AMERICA wear AMERICAN FLAG clothing - regardless of what day it was?
  
  Therein lies the problem...
• bman618

  Even MSNBC has come down against the school. They said the high school administration encouraged students to wear the flag of Mexico - a foreign nation. So why these folks wore OUR flag. I've had family shed blood and die for this country and I would have brought as much red, white and blue to the school as I could if I were a student here.
  
  I think the multicultural argument comes with a degree. We integrate a little bit of the culture from most countries where our people have come from. But these immigrants learned english, encouraged their children to be American and gave their allegiance to our country. Now we see people who don't learn our common language and are more loyal to Mexico than our country. We also have racist groups like La Raza - translation 'The Race'. That is a problem.
• BCBulldog

  

  Strapping Young Lad wrote: Definatley, but when you come to school with the obvious intent to piss off a bunch of Hispanics, on a Hispanic holiday, in a school with a Hispanic principle then I guess the principle has the right to make a judgement call on how best to diffuse the potentially viloent situation. Guess who the Hispanic principal sided with on a Hispanic holiday in a school where a bunch of Hispanic students were celebrating A HOLIDAY THAT MANY AMERICANS HAVE ADOPTED if only for an excuse to drink.
  
  
  
  But of course the little angels were only showing what patriotic patriots they were.....poor little victim patriots. GTFO.

  Let's be clear, Cinco de Mayo is NOT a hispanic holiday. My Guatemalan friend couldn't care less about it. It is a Mexican holiday, but not even a national holiday in Mexico. In fact, it is only really celebrated in the state of Puebla. Don't make it more than it is.
  

  queencitybuckeye wrote:Do we put away the stars and stripes on St. Patrick's day?

  I do put my American flag away and fly an Irish flag on St. Patrick's Day, but that's just because I only have one flag pole on my house.
• goosebumps

  

  Yes, I'm sure the kid who is half mexican was doing it because he's racist... against Mexicans?
• bman618

  Let's be honest - St. Patrick's Day and Cinco de Mayo for most Americans are just an excuse to get drunk.
• fish82

  

  Strapping Young Lad wrote: Wow, the "playing race-card comment"....... can't get enough of that.

  Then stop doing it. It ain't rocket surgery, dude. :rolleyes:
• GeneralsIcer89

  http://uscode.house.gov/download/pls/04C1.txt
  
  Section 8, parts d and j. Technically, these kids broke federal law.
• Strapping Young Lad

  

  Yeah, brah. Rocket surgery. You're full of 'em, lol. You must be a treat to hang out with. If your idea of treat is nonstop, trite, cliche sayings.
  
  Sorry, I realize that there is no such thing as racism anymore, only overuse of the "race card".
• goosebumps

  

  Again, do ^^^^^^ you think that the Half-mexican kid did this because he was racist?
• believer

  

  Strapping Young Lad wrote:Sorry, I realize that there is no such thing as racism anymore, only overuse of the "race card".

  Oh racism is certainly not dead. Nor is playing the race card. Both need to go.
• Strapping Young Lad

  

  You find this impossible????
  
  I know a guy who's father's side is fulll blooded Italian but this guy fucking hates Italians.
  
  IMPOSSIBLE!!!!
• goosebumps

  

  I didn't say impossible, I'll definitely call it Improbable.
  
  This guy you know probably just hates his family and by association italians.
• majorspark

  

  Strapping Young Lad wrote: You find this impossible????
  
  I know a guy who's father's side is fulll blooded Italian but this guy fucking hates Italians.
  
  IMPOSSIBLE!!!!

  Yeah we got some Americans with that problem too.
• redstreak one

  

  Strapping young lad, your notion of they did this on purpose, IMO is spot on! I for one applaud them. I dont care what their motives. As for you idea that America doesnt have the right to nationalize anyone into their culture because everything they have has been borrowed stinks my like my 9 month olds crappy diaper. Every culture and country in the world has assimilated years worth of other cultures ideas, religions, beliefs, customs, dress, food, language, etc... Just because the US started just over 300 years ago doesnt count towards our culture. Baseball, basketball, football, cheeseburgers, the different dialects of different regions all of that and much much more are nothing but borrowed and therefore not a valid reason for a visitor or immigrant to want to assimilate into that culture.
  
  The problem is the US upholds itself as the land of the free, and too many take advantage of this and twist it to their own agendas. I for one love celebrating, singing, eating and drinking and taking all of that in about other cultures, however I will be dammed if I wont speak up for someone wanting to instigate their right to speak up and defend their country!
• CenterBHSFan

  

  majorspark wrote:

  Strapping Young Lad wrote: You find this impossible????
  
  I know a guy who's father's side is fulll blooded Italian but this guy fucking hates Italians.
  
  IMPOSSIBLE!!!!

  Yeah we got some Americans with that problem too.

  + trazillion
• Strapping Young Lad

  

  goosebumps wrote: I didn't say impossible, I'll definitely call it Improbable.
  
  This guy you know probably just hates his family and by association italians.

  Bingo. And you know know how this kid feels about his family????
  
  Also, I don't really feel the need to ridicule and instigate the Irish on St. Paddys Day, the Mexican's on Cinco, Christians on Christmas, or Blacks on MLKJr.
  
  I'd rather celebrate w/ them instead of trying to show them up b/c of my own pride. I wear green on St.Paddy's day, listen to Christmas carols on Xmas, and eat tacos and drink corona on Cinco de Mayo. But too each his own. If Mexican Americans taking a day to recognize some event in their history and inviting the community to share it with them makes you want to assimilate instead of enjoying multiculturalism, I guess that's your problem. I guess I can't help you....
  
  You have the right to "nationalize" anyone you want but you won't succeed b/c only an ignorant few even care to try and strip America of the cultures of the people who make up America.
  
  Then after you nationalize everyone and all you have to show for yourself is a boring sport (football was a foreign game first and basketball was Native American, I think) and a cheesburger, you'll say fuck it lets just enjoy the other cultures too.
• queencitybuckeye

  Strapping Young Lad wrote: Sorry, I realize that there is no such thing as racism anymore, only overuse of the "race card".

  There's both of course, but one could make a compelling case that the latter passed the former in frequency and never looked back. In fact I'd say there's very little doubt.
• ptown_trojans_1

  

  While I agree it was stupid to reprimand the students, let's not get carried away. They are still student, who have constricted rights. The schools does have the rights to determine dress code, rules,etc. It was just this was taken way, way too far.
• Footwedge

  Kids should not have been reprimanded at all. If the kids had t shirts that said "fuck Mexicans" or similar, then that's a different story.
  
  Were the shirts a tad "controversial"? Yeah probably. But not at all incindiary. And so what? I wonder if the 4th of July gets the same positive press in Mexico that Cinquo de Mayo gets in our country.
• Glory Days

  

  Strapping Young Lad wrote: Definatley, but when you come to school with the obvious intent to piss off a bunch of Hispanics, on a Hispanic holiday, in a school with a Hispanic principle then I guess the principle has the right to make a judgement call on how best to diffuse the potentially viloent situation. Guess who the Hispanic principal sided with on a Hispanic holiday in a school where a bunch of Hispanic students were celebrating A HOLIDAY THAT MANY AMERICANS HAVE ADOPTED if only for an excuse to drink.
  
  But of course the little angels were only showing what patriotic patriots they were.....poor little victim patriots. GTFO.

  i bet you most of those people in the school couldnt tell you a damn thing about what Cinco De Mayo actually is.
• Strapping Young Lad

  

  I'll bet you the kid w/ the flag trunks is flunking american history.....
• dwccrew

  

  bman618 wrote: Let's be honest - St. Patrick's Day and Cinco de Mayo for most Americans are just an excuse to get drunk.

  Ding ding ding!!!!
  
  Cinco de Mayo is barely a holiday in Mexico (Mexican Independence day is September 16th), most people don't know that though, they just think it's a day to get drunk and party.
  
  Secondly, I don't care what the intentions of these kids were, if they choose to wear red, white and blue colors, that is their right; just as it is the right of anyone else to celebrate Cinco de Mayo.
  
  Lastly, how many people on this thread are going to use the wrong form of PRINCIPAL? It's not principle when referring to the official at a school, it's PRINCIPAL.
  
  /Grammar police rant
• BCBulldog

  

  Strapping Young Lad wrote:Then after you nationalize everyone and all you have to show for yourself is a boring sport (football was a foreign game first and basketball was Native American, I think)

  Wow, that was a decent post until you made this dumbass remark. You are exactly wrong. Baseball is the sport most likely to have been played on foreign soil first as it is believed to be an adaptation of the British sport rounders with potential influences from cricket, stoolball, la soule, théque, la balle au bâton, and la balle empoisonée. Football, as we know it, was in fact an American adaptation of rugby with influences of soccer, but it was undoubtedly an American creation. Basketball was invented by Dr. James Naismith in December 1891 in Springfield, Massachusetts. There is no evidence of it being derived from any other sport including Mesoamerican ballgame.
• redstreak one

  

  I simply added a few examples, dont give a rats rear end what you think about my examples its my point that I was trying to get across. That point being, no one culture can say undoubtebly that they are original on anything they do. All have borrowed, so stop trying to trivialize American culture away as an excuse for these students being punished for wearing an American symbol. I will not apologize for being born White!
• BCBulldog

  

  redstreak one wrote: I simply added a few examples, dont give a rats rear end what you think about my examples its my point that I was trying to get across. That point being, no one culture can say undoubtebly that they are original on anything they do. All have borrowed, so stop trying to trivialize American culture away as an excuse for these students being punished for wearing an American symbol. I will not apologize for being born White!

  First, I wasn't addressing you. I was going after SYL's poor example of saying that the only sport (of the three mentioned) created in the US was baseball.
  
  Second, there is no question that basketball is entirely a US creation. We have a date, location and creator that we can point directly at. There is absolutely no evidence that it started anywhere other than here.
  
  Third, WTF are you ranting about with the whole "trivializing American culture away as an excuse for these students being punished for wearing an American symbol. I will not apologize for being born White!" stuff?