Kythas wrote:
So I'm left wondering why American students were sent home for wearing an American flag in an American school because Hispanic students were offended on a day that isn't a Mexican holiday.
This has much to do with the new Arizona law that just passed rather than a Holliday. May 5th was an opportunity for the Hispanic community to push back. There has been little resistance to the invasion from Mexico until now. We are in a bust economy and the US no longer has deep pockets to support illegal aliens so there is growing pressure to deport them. The principal who gave the order to cover the American flag is Miguel Rodriguez.
Mr. Rodriguez clearly still has one foot in Mexico."There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag… We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language… and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.”—Theodore Roosevelt, 1907
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