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Four high school kids in CA sent home for wearing American attire. Living in the US is really getting harder to bear.

#1   gsninja 

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    Posted 06 May 2010 - 10:08 AM

    http://news.yahoo.co...749667/19585803

    Basically, four high school students at a school in N. California wore patriotic clothes to school on Cinco de Mayo and got sent home when they refused to take said apparel off.

    Although it's most likely a protest to Cinco de Mayo, these kids did absolutely nothing to warrant getting booted from school for the day just for wearing American clothes. Seriously, being patriotic in the US nowadays is considered bad...sure, it was more of a protest than anything else in this case, but these kids just wore the attire and nothing else. Thank God that even the district was against the high school's decision.

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      Posted 06 May 2010 - 10:39 AM

      First America was ridiculously over-patriotic and now its...anti-patriotic?

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        Posted 06 May 2010 - 10:42 AM

        Cinco de Mayo is such a retarded holiday. It isn't celebrated in Mexico, it's not Mexican Independence day, it's completely irrelevant. It's just an excuse to get drunk and party, which you can do any day if you wanted. Makes about as much sense as 4/20. :) No offense stoners.

        Edit: Maybe the school was worried they'd get beat up by the Mexican kids? Not be racist, some of my best friends have been Mexican throughout my life, but some of those kids are pretty, uh... proud.

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          Posted 06 May 2010 - 10:55 AM

          View PostSomeone Else, on May 6 2010, 12:42 PM, said:

          Cinco de Mayo is such a retarded holiday. It isn't celebrated in Mexico, it's not Mexican Independence day, it's completely irrelevant. It's just an excuse to get drunk and party, which you can do any day if you wanted. Makes about as much sense as 4/20. :) No offense stoners.

          Excellent point, I was going to mention this.

          View PostBUTTSEX, on May 6 2010, 12:08 PM, said:

          http://news.yahoo.co...749667/19585803these kids did absolutely nothing to warrant getting booted from school for the day just for wearing American clothes.

          A very poor decision by the high school. Nothing wrong was committed.

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            Posted 06 May 2010 - 01:45 PM

            Only in America.

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              Posted 06 May 2010 - 01:47 PM

              View PostSomeone Else, on May 6 2010, 09:42 AM, said:

              Edit: Maybe the school was worried they'd get beat up by the Mexican kids? Not be racist, some of my best friends have been Mexican throughout my life, but some of those kids are pretty, uh... proud.

              Maybe. They did mention that some kids teased them, but I still think there could've been a better way to handle things in case the kids really were in danger of getting beaten up.

              And yes, Cinco de Mayo is very retarded, the fact that Mexico doesn't even celebrate it makes this situation even more ridiculous.

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                Posted 07 May 2010 - 12:37 AM

                It was Northern California btw.

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                  Posted 07 May 2010 - 04:21 PM

                  Lol, total fail on my part. Thanks. :)

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                    Posted 10 May 2010 - 12:32 AM

                    View PostCaael, on May 6 2010, 09:39 AM, said:

                    First America was ridiculously over-patriotic and now its...anti-patriotic?


                    Really? It's been this way ever since Obama got into office. Not necessarily his fault, but ever since he got in, it seems like people have been trying to be "more racially sensitive."

                    And the worst part about it, is that the media jumps on it like flies to anal excretions whenever it looks like someone's being racist.

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                      Posted 10 May 2010 - 01:39 AM

                      View PostToasty, on May 9 2010, 11:32 PM, said:

                      Really? It's been this way ever since Obama got into office. Not necessarily his fault, but ever since he got in, it seems like people have been trying to be "more racially sensitive."

                      And the worst part about it, is that the media jumps on it like flies to anal excretions whenever it looks like someone's being racist.

                      It's been that way long before Obama.

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                        Posted 10 May 2010 - 01:58 AM

                        Yeah, but it got worse when he stepped in. :\

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                          Posted 10 May 2010 - 02:39 AM

                          Continuation!

                          http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local-beat/...e-93065324.html

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                            Posted 10 May 2010 - 02:32 PM

                            View PostToasty, on May 10 2010, 02:32 AM, said:

                            it seems like people have been trying to be "more racially sensitive."

                            What DS said. This has always been the case in the US, and it has not changed in anyway.

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                              Posted 10 May 2010 - 04:19 PM

                              If by racially sensitive you mean more "trying to be nice to others races since the US was the epitomic area of white supremacy" it only really started being that way in the 1990s, and even then we weren't all that great.

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                                Posted 10 May 2010 - 04:42 PM

                                View PostSomeone Else, on May 10 2010, 01:39 AM, said:



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                                  Posted 10 May 2010 - 09:57 PM

                                  My point is that it seems like people think that since there was rampant racism and whatnot a long-ass time ago, that we should step all over whites and America in general to make up for it.

                                  That's the feeling I'm getting from the media, at least, and I think it's a bunch of crap.


                                  I have no problem with letting other people celebrate their country's holidays (whether they're really holidays or not), but they better not have a problem with me being patriotic towards mine either, as if being patriotic towards America is some grave sin against all mankind or something.

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                                    Posted 10 May 2010 - 10:06 PM

                                    Well, you're creating an argument out of nowhere here. No one has suggested there is remotely a characterization of patriotism as being negative. In fact, given the status among developed nations, the US has arguably some of the most pro-patriotic sentiments on the whole of its population.

                                    I generally agree with what you say however, that no one should have to hide what they are proud of or what they support. I am thus certain that, as you and I agree this was a poor decision on the part of the high school to send those students with American flags home, that you would also defend any student who was sent home for raising a Mexican flag for his rights to expression as well.


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