California Students Sent Home for Wearing U.S. Flags on Cinco de Mayo

Come on Brian, we cannot hurt the Mexicans feelings on their special day. The principal & teachers were just being Politically Correct - I mean, this was in Kalifornia wasn't it? What did you expect? After all the Mexicans have been known to hang the US flag upside down in protest - that should be a hanging offense.

5 de mayo is more an American holiday than a Mexican one, more people celbrated here than in Mexico, an most of them.. Americans!!
So don't make this about mexicans...
It's about our f'kup schools system, and a kid of a redneck who try to made a racial point by chossing 5 de mayo to bring an amrican flag shirt!

I don't understand why wearing the colors of our country would. be offensive on any day.

When displaying your country's flag becomes a political statement, something is amiss. While Santa Clara County is not indicative of the American norm, the fact that there is anyplace in the country where expressions of national identity have become offensive should give us pause. That administrators would allow a claque of students to bully them into punishing other classmates is a sign of real weakness. That they would allow the American flag to be deemed an offensive symbol indicates that their weakness is rooted in a multicultural attitude that holds that all cultures are equal, except their own. Most troubling, though, is the fact that the students of Hispanic ancestry who were interviewed did not feel a part of the American experience and that they saw the two flags as antithetical. ... California continues to point to an unhappy future for the rest of the nation.