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More proof that the idiocy of PC multiculturalism continues to plague this country.  Can you think of anything more stupid than American students not being able to wear American flags on their shirt because of a holiday celebrating a foreign military victory?

Galli says he and his friends were sitting at a table during brunch break when the vice principal asked two of the boys to remove American flag bandannas that they wearing on their heads and for the others to turn their American flag T-shirts inside out. When they refused, the boys were ordered to go to the principal’s office.

“They said we could wear it on any other day,” Daniel Galli said, “but today is sensitive to Mexican-Americans because it’s supposed to be their holiday so we were not allowed to wear it today.”

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I think it’s absolutely ridiculous,” Julie Fagerstrom, Maciel’s mom, said. “All they were doing was displaying their patriotic nature. They’re expressing their individuality.”

But to many Mexican-American students at Live Oak, this was a big deal. They say they were offended by the five boys and others for wearing American colors on a Mexican holiday.

“I think they should apologize cause it is a Mexican Heritage Day,” Annicia Nunez, a Live Oak High student, said. “We don’t deserve to be get disrespected like that. We wouldn’t do that on Fourth of July.”

I’m sorry, but doesn’t Mexican-American clue them into the fact that they’re Americans?  If they’re so “sensitive” to a non-American holiday that they think they are “disrespected” by an American flag, they really need to leave.  Moreover, we need to consider what the hell is going wrong in our immigration policy, as these people are clearly not assimilating properly.

If you aren’t convinced that there’s something particularly wrong with how so many Mexicans have assimilated in this country, ask yourself whether an American flag would be considered “disrespect” on any other cultural holiday.  Would students have been sent home for wearing it on St. Patrick’s Day?  Would such disrespect have been found for an American flag on Chinese New Year?  Of course not, in both cases.  So why do we continue to coddle this certain segment of the “Mexican-American” population which clearly doesn’t consider itself American?  Why do we tolerate radical groups like La Raza and MEChA which promote ethnic disharmony while not only showing more loyalty to Mexico than America, but also openly advocating a racial separatism that would make the most ardent supporter of Apartheid proud? It is madness to put up with this in the name of cultural relativism.