Banning American flag tshirts at school on cinco de mayo...WTH?

Mexican people (Spanish: Mexicanos (individuals), Pueblo mexicano (collective)) refers to all persons of the United Mexican States, a multiethnic country in North America, and/or who identify with the Mexican cultural and/or national identity.

So while there are different ethnic groups, as a whole they are Mexican. So why are we allowing a group to show loyalty in our public schools to a country that they refuse to live in and have pretty much abandoned? Cinco De Mayo celebrates Mexican independence. Do we let students celebrate Cuban independence? Russian? Israeli? Egyptian? Iranian? Chinese? School admin should nip this celebration in the bud or allow AMERICAN students to wear apparel decorated in American colors as well. It's blatant favoritism.

Cinco de mayo does not celebrate Mexican independance. I just posted that Dilbert. That's celebrated in September. It celebrates their heritage and freedom and WTH are we to say what they can celebrate? It is celebrated in the US. Now you think you can tell people what they can and can't celebrate of their heritage. WTF?

Then why are the Mexicans running around with
Mexican flags that
Day and planting them all over the place? Why are Mexicans celebrating a Mexican holiday in the United States?

How about they try and assimilate?

PACEDOG#1 wrote:Then why are the Mexicans running around with
Mexican flags that
Day and planting them all over the place? Why are Mexicans celebrating a Mexican holiday in the United States?

Why do we celebrate St. Patrick's day in the US?

If my old brain can rightly remember the reason for Cinco de Mayo, it was the celebration of a defeat of French troops in Mexico sent by Napoleon. The short man, who gave us short man syndrome, had his sights on an unstable US and the civil war. Grab Mexico and springboard to the US. The American West celebrated the victory WITH Mexico. It was not brought here with legal (or illegal) immigration.

Folks, expand your thought process, and don't tie everything to your limited grab bag of talking points.

And why do we knee jerk react to not being able to wear an American flag t-shirt bought at Old Navy and made in China?    Good night alive the flag still flies whether a child wears it to school or not.

PACEDOG#1 wrote: Do we have another group that takes more from this country to send back to its homeland than the one this thread is talking about?

That would be the mexican marijuana cartel which was created by prohibition (aka "the war on drugs").

Of course if we talk about what is the most money American TAXPAYERS give to other countries,  Mexico isn't even on the list.



http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/fullpage/top-10-us-foreign-aid-recipients-17534761

She writes ,

Different Napoleon. That was Napoleon III and he wasnt trying to springboard into the United States.

by Dreamsglore Today at 11:23 am
PACEDOG#1 wrote:
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Then why are the Mexicans running around with
Mexican flags that
Day and planting them all over the place? Why are Mexicans celebrating a Mexican holiday in the United States?
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Why do we celebrate St. Patrick's day in the US?
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Nobody from Ireland is trying to destabilize the American Southwest and pull a Reconquista.

PACEDOG#1 wrote:She writes ,

Different Napoleon. That was Napoleon III and he wasnt trying to springboard into the United States.

I didn't say which it was. He was the son...doubt he gained much height in the process.   

It is a thought that he was indeed empire building and would use a victory against Mexico to be preface to US territory. So with his loss...a celebration! Pass the tacos.

Napoleon was slightly taller than the average Frenchman of the time at 5'7" His personal guards were all over 6 ft which made him look shorter than normal for the time.

She writes,
America was a decent military power at the time Napoleon III ruled France.

She writes ,

Read-
Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte (20 April 1808 – 9 January 1873) was the first President of the French Republic and, as Napoleon III, the ruler of the Second French Empire. He was the nephew and heir of Napoleon I. He was the first President of France to be elected by a direct popular vote. However, in 1852, when he was blocked by the Constitution and Parliament from running for a second term, he organized a coup d'état in 1851, and then took the throne as Napoleon III on 2 December 1852, the forty-eighth anniversary of Napoleon I's coronation.
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Nobody was threatening the US or empire building in the western hemiSphere after the Monroe Doctrine warned European powers to stop their colonization efforts in said area

Least of all a wannabee

Well, like I said in the beginning I'm running off an old mind filled with lots of beloved history from great teachers through the years.

It makes no difference which Napoleon (should have left the aim for humor out) the point does indeed go to the fact that the French Mexican war is thought by many scholars to have been a stepping stone war...and he was defeated (short, tall, fat, skinny, son, uncle, third cousin twice removed...whoever.)

Back to the point of tshirts in school...no biggie.

Back to the point of Cinco de Mayo... can't wait for the festivities.

What's that Fiesta celebrated in Pensacola???? Oh...five flags. What's that racetrack in Pensacola? Oh...five flags. I'm surprised there's not a grump session over that!

  

We pledge allegiance to the American flag.
Our soldiers get buried under a American flag.
The president gets buried under one when he/she dies.
The president represents the country where ever they are in the world and always stands beside the American flag.

This is AMERICA. We don't mind you celebrating cinco de mayo.

But don't tell us where in the hell we can wear our flag if your going to allow others to fly a flag. That is discrimination!

If our AMERICAN flag in a AMERICAN school upsets them so much, perhaps they need to get the hell out of America.   

Sal wrote:

Dreamsglore wrote:
Why do we celebrate St. Patrick's day in the US?

Beer. 

Cheers  

by Sal Today at 9:04 pm
Dreamsglore wrote:
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Why do we celebrate St. Patrick's day in the US?
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Beer.
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Yep

Sal wrote:

PACEDOG#1 wrote:
Nobody from Ireland is trying to destabilize the American Southwest and pull a Reconquista.

Jebus man, is there nothing that doesn't terrify and/or outrage you?


Get a friggin' grip. 

Stuff like this is happening more and more, so no, I won't get a grip except on a person who wants to fly the flag of another nation over our own.

http://conservativepost.com/when-this-veteran-saw-mexican-flag-flying-over-us-flag-all-hell-breaks-loose/

Here's some stuff on Reconquista by the La Raza *The Race* group:

http://www.humanevents.com/2006/04/07/emexclusive-emthe-truth-about-la-raza/

Radical ‘Reconquista’ Agenda

Behind the respectable front of the National Council of La Raza lies the real agenda of the La Raza movement, the agenda that led to those thousands of illegal immigrants in the streets of American cities, waving Mexican flags, brazenly defying our laws, and demanding concessions.

Key among the secondary organizations is the radical racist group Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan, or Chicano Student Movement of Aztlan (MEChA), one of the most anti-American groups in the country, which has permeated U.S. campuses since the 1960s, and continues its push to carve a racist nation out of the American West.

One of America’s greatest strengths has always been taking in immigrants from cultures around the world, and assimilating them into our country as Americans. By being citizens of the U.S. we are Americans first, and only, in our national loyalties.

This is totally opposed by MEChA for the hordes of illegal immigrants pouring across our borders, to whom they say:

“Chicano is our identity; it defines who we are as people. It rejects the notion that we…should assimilate into the Anglo-American melting pot…Aztlan was the legendary homeland of the Aztecas … It became synonymous with the vast territories of the Southwest, brutally stolen from a Mexican people marginalized and betrayed by the hostile custodians of the Manifest Destiny.” (Statement on University of Oregon MEChA Website, Jan. 3, 2006)


MEChA isn’t at all shy about their goals, or their views of other races. Their founding principles are contained in these words in “El Plan Espiritual de Aztlan” (The Spiritual Plan for Aztlan):

“In the spirit of a new people that is conscious not only of its proud historical heritage but also of the brutal gringo invasion of our territories, we, the Chicano inhabitants and civilizers of the northern land of Aztlan from whence came our forefathers, reclaiming the land of their birth and consecrating the determination of our people of the sun, declare that the call of our blood is our power, our responsibility, and our inevitable destiny. … Aztlan belongs to those who plant the seeds, water the fields, and gather the crops and not to the foreign Europeans. … We are a bronze people with a bronze culture. Before the world, before all of North America, before all our brothers in the bronze continent, we are a nation, we are a union of free pueblos, we are Aztlan. For La Raza todo. Fuera de La Raza nada.”

That closing two-sentence motto is chilling to everyone who values equal rights for all. It says: “For The Race everything. Outside The Race, nothing.”

If these morally sickening MEChA quotes were coming from some fringe website, Americans could at least console themselves that it was just a small group of nuts behind it. Nearly every racial and ethnic group has some shady characters and positions in its past and some unbalanced individuals today claiming racial superiority and demanding separatism. But this is coming straight from the official MEChA sites at Georgetown University, the University of Texas, UCLA, University of Michigan, University of Colorado, University of Oregon, and many other colleges and universities around the country.

PACEDOG#1 wrote: Reconquista

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconquista_%28Mexico%29#Charles_Truxillo