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2010-05-07 Home Front: Culture Wars
Tensions High at California High School Following Flag Flap
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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2010-05-07 10:56|| || Front Page|| [11126 views ]  Top

#1  "si se puedes" -- "yes we can"

Wonder where they picked up that phrase?
Posted by Besoeker 2010-05-07 11:19||   2010-05-07 11:19|| Front Page Top

#2 More than 200 Hispanic students reportedly skipped class on Thursday

How could they tell?
Posted by gorb 2010-05-07 11:56||   2010-05-07 11:56|| Front Page Top

#3 One wonders why a US high school was celebrating a holiday whose primary purpose is to promote Corona beer.
Posted by AzCat 2010-05-07 12:49||   2010-05-07 12:49|| Front Page Top

#4 One wonders why a US high school was celebrating a holiday whose primary purpose is to promote Corona beer.

You must have missed yesterday's comments on this:

But to many Mexican American students at Live Oak, this was a big deal. They say they were offended by the five boys and others for wearing American colors on a Mexican holiday.

"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."
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2010-05-07 13:30||   2010-05-07 13:30|| Front Page Top

#5 Except it's not a Mexican holiday. It's a state holiday in Mexico, but not a national holiday of celebration or recognition. It's about division and rule here, created to fight assimilation. My tribe against your tribe.

Let's review Mexico's own law and Article 33 of their Constitution -

"The Federal Executive shall have the exclusive power to compel any foreigner whose remaining he may deem inexpedient to abandon the national territory immediately and without the necessity of previous legal action.

Foreigners may not in any way participate in the political affairs of the country."
Posted by Procopius2k 2010-05-07 13:46||   2010-05-07 13:46|| Front Page Top

#6 In a way I'm somewhat relieved that Hispanic kids in the US are as ignorant of the Mexican history they profess to celebrate as all kids here are of our own.
Posted by AzCat 2010-05-07 14:53||   2010-05-07 14:53|| Front Page Top

#7 Wonder where they picked up that phrase?

Same place Obama did: Cesar Chavez.
Posted by Angie Schultz 2010-05-07 18:07||   2010-05-07 18:07|| Front Page Top

#8  many Mexican American students at Live Oak

Fixed.
Posted by Glenmore 2010-05-07 18:35||   2010-05-07 18:35|| Front Page Top

#9 I love the fact that they were afraid Mexican American students would be offended since it is a Mexican holiday.

The problem with that is that it's not a national holiday in Meh-heeee-co, just in the state of Puebla. The multi-culture crowd in US schools have co-opted it for their own idiotic indoctrination purposes. Take for example, people from other Hispanic nations whose kids are, in effect, Mexican-ized on May 5th. In the interests of multi-cultural correctness, all Hispanic kids are lumped into the Mexican category. In true Left Fashion, int's not about getting it right; it's only about feeeeeeeeeeeeeelings, which supplanted facts along time ago with this bunch.

I used to pull my kids out of school on May 5th and take a day-trip down to the San Jacinto Battleground Monument, drive over to the Alamo in San Antone or just hang out at the Texas History Museum in Austin.

Of course, in Texas schools, Texas Independence Day, March 2nd, or San Jacinto Day, April 21st, are no longer celebrated... for the same reason these kids in California got tossed out of class: people of Mexican descent might be offended. Oh, they never mention the great Texian hero, Juan Seguin, for some reason either...
Posted by Dash Rip Van Winkle Rock 2010-05-07 18:58||   2010-05-07 18:58|| Front Page Top

#10 "I love the fact that they were afraid Mexican American students would be offended since it is a Mexican holiday."

There is no such thing as a Mexican-American. There are just Americans. They may be Americans of Mexican descent, but they're either Mexicans, or they're Americans. Period.

I don't call myself a German-American, or an Austrian-American, or an English-American, or a Welsh-American, or a Scots-American, or a Dutch-American, or an (American) Indian-American (I'm a mutt - so sue me.) I'm an AMERICAN, period.

If somebody wants to be a whatever-American, I'd suggest that he/she move to "whatever," since America obviously isn't good enough for him/her.
Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2010-05-07 19:25||   2010-05-07 19:25|| Front Page Top

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