Stop acting like a mongoloid and think it over. The underlined idea in my post is that mexican-americans celebrate nominally ‘mexican’ holidays, in the exact same way that american-mexicans celebrate nominally american ones. So raising the fact that mexicans don’t celebrate the fourth of july is a non issue at best.
Cinco de mayo isn’t really a mexican holiday. It’s a much larger thing for mexican-americans than it is for people in mexico, in the same way that st patricks day isn’t really the same thing for irish americans that is for the irish. It’s turned into a much more general celebration of mexican-american culture, and the only people that can’t seem to handle it without their heads exploding are race baiters and jingoists.
I have never acknowledged Cinco De Mayo, just as i don’t acknowledge most frivolous holidays. They are obviously just manufactured bullshit to sell crap.
These kids are obviously douches. They were “teased” because they looked ridiculous.
I would have to agree that these guys were being douche bags and trying to start shit for no apparent reason. HOWEVER, they had every right to do so. It’s no different than me walking on an Indian reserve with a t-shirt that says Christopher Columbus is my hero. I have the right to do so, but I better be ready to face the consequences.
You didn’t raise it, because I didn’t quote your post to begin with??? As I stated earlier when you were so eager to involve yourself???
your third jab is exactly what I mean. This is just fuel for race baiting nonsense. The race of the kids provoking the students isn’t relevant. The fact that the kid sneaks in the idea that the hispanic principal was siding with the hispanic students lays their clumsy agenda out in the open pretty clearly. They’re trying to make this mexican vs american issue, and it’s not. These are mexican-americans celebrating a part of their heritage, which they just can’t handle.
Your characterization is bullshit. They didn’t simply dress in the colours of the united states, they used those colours to try and provoke. The flag isn’t a fucking weapon. I don’t think they should have been kicked out. It’s their right to wear what they want and express themselves how they feel, but I have no fucking delusions about why they wore those shirts, on that day.
The problem in this instance is, they are making it like it is okay to wear those shirts 364 days a year which is past retarded.
Either the shirts are acceptable, or they are not. School rules are Black & White. You knew no matter what day it was, if you wore a shirt with nude images or foul language on it, you were getting sent home or you removed it.
If not, try to follow along - it’s not that complicated.
The post you quoted was in direct response to the post that I posted directly before it.
Having attempted to rejoind Kelter’s post, which was a rebuttal to mine, you engaged the original point.
Unless you mean to assert that you derived the context for your rejoinder from Kelter’s post prior to mine… but that would be one mean feat of inference, and one that wasn’t warrated, given the innocuous phrasing of his initial post. Whereas my post, and his follow up were much more direct. If so, please, learn to “reply with quote”.
yeah, I have the amazing ability to read into subtext- sorry you’re so intent on pretending to be ignorant of it. They all decided to wear these colours, on this day, in unison, to make a point. There is nothing innocuous about this. Like I said, I don’t support the decision to remove them, but I certainly don’t condone using the american colours as an instrument to provoke ones countrymen.
is highlighting the fact that this isn’t a mexican vs american issue. He asked a leading question, the only problem is that the answer to it isn’t relevant, enter my post. Unless he really meant to say something other than ‘why are we celebrating mexican holidays in america’, this isn’t a problem that requires this much back and forth.
Well feel free to keep all that secret knowledge to yourself, until then it seems pretty clear to me that he’s questioning why we’re celebrating mexican holidays in america at all.
And that’s it, precisely - with the equally precise omission of the fact that he was referring to Mexican-Mexicans in Mexico by “they”, and not tourists, dual-citizens, or ex-patriots… which rendered moot your rejoinder before it was even written.
see, that’s the thing though. These are mexican-americans celebrating a part of their heritage. What they’re doing IS ‘american’, American culture IS an amalgam of many different cultures and traditions. This is why I feel the obvious answer to his very leading question, isn’t entirely relevant.
