This past week 5 students from a school in Morgan Hill, California wore shirts with American flags to school. It also happened to be a day in which the school(for some reason) was celebrating Cinco De Mayo. Because the Vice-Principle deemed the wearing of the American flag incendiary, they were given the choice of turning the shirts inside out, removing them, leaving school, or getting suspended. They chose to leave. The story on only those facts makes me shake my head but another underlying issue also highlights the absurdity of the situation. The school was celebrating Cinco De Mayo, what we(myself included) have been led to believe is Mexico's Independence Day. A little research exposes that the day commemorates a battle in the small state of Pueblo in southern Mexico. Cinco De Mayo is not largley celebrated in Mexico itself, but has become an "excuse to party" day in small pockets of the country. Mexican Independence Day is nationally recognized(in Mexico) on September 16.
So what we have here is another example of political correctness run amok. Again, those in the P.C. crowd are shoving recognition of another nations sovereignty down our throats when they don't even have it right to begin with. Recognizing Cinco De Mayo in America is akin to going to Mexico on Mardi Gras and having a local shove a Corona in your hand and shout "Amigo, we celebrating your eendeependence"
America first
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