BrianGarst.com

A California middle school student was told to remove a U.S. flag from his bike to avoid ‘racial tensions’ with other pupils.

Cody Alicea, 13, was told not to fly the flag from his bike while at Denair Middle School, in Sacramento, after other students made complaints, according to KCRA-TV.

District superintendent Edward Parraz said that racial tensions at the school boiled over during the Cinco de Mayo holiday – a national holiday in Mexico.

Mr Parraz said: ‘The First Amendment is important. We want the kids to respect it, understand it, and with that comes a responsibility.

‘Our Hispanic, you know, kids will, you know, bring their Mexican flags and they’ll display it, and then of course the kids would do the American flag situation, and it does cause kind of a racial tension which we don’t really want.

…The teenagers parents said he flies the flag from his bike as a tribute to service veterans in his family.

I get so tired of this nonsense. I welcome all races and cultures that want to come to America, and I think it would be smart for us to streamline the process by which they are allowed to legally do so. But anyone who finds the American flag offensive, racially or otherwise, can get the hell out. The American flag is not an insult to Hispanics, and anyone who prefers the Mexican flag so much should go live in Mexico.

It is a gross indictment of our ability (or lack thereof) to integrate and assimilate newcomers that such blatant racial-nationalism is tolerated in the slightest.