[TheMercenary]

A pretty good commentary on how the whole thing could have been handled differently.

The Soft Bigotry of Insulting Chicanos’ Intelligence

Yesterday was May 5th, which in Spanish is Cinco de Mayo… which Mexicans do not celebrate as their Independence Day (that would be September 16th, 1810), but which Mexican Americans (Chicanos) celebrate all across the American Southwest and probably elsewhere as well.
On May 5th, 1862, the nationalist militia of Mexico, under the command of Gen. Ignacio Zaragoza, defeated the imperial French forces at the Battala de Puebla. While this didn’t end the war with France — the French fought on for another five years, abandoning their Mexican “colony” only after the United States joined the war on Mexico’s side — Cinco de Mayo is a major Chicano holiday, celebrated primarily by gorging on Mexican food, swigging tequilla, and shooting pistols into the air (kind of like an NBA Finals victory celebration). One hopes the rituals are different in high school.
Yesterday at Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill, in the Santa Clara Valley of California (“Silicon Valley”), school officials celebrated Cinco de Mayo by sending five students home… for wearing American-flag t-shirts.
Principal Nick Boden called the t-shirts “incendiary,” according to one of the students. His rationale for threatening the flag-wearers with suspension and then sending them home was that wearing red, white, and blue on Cinco de Mayo was somehow insulting and disrespectful to Hispanic students, which constitute a very large portion of the school’s population; however, the school district is unhappy with Boden’s action:

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