If everyone goes around looking for offense rather than solutions, this country will have serious problems. Find the common ground and work from there. Obviously, this artist loves the American flag, but also loves her culture. I for one am glad that the club does recite the Pledge of Allegience at every meeting. Believe me, most do not.
No it's not. It's a crotchety old man with nothing better to do. The LULAC people clearly did not mean to offend or disrespect. They're going to make the US flag more prominent. They're researching proper usage. They're attempting to please the American Legion. What else do you want?
As for you, "proud patriot," there are plenty of good Americans who came from that "hellhole," who manage to take pride in it as they do in their adopted homeland. Mexico isn't the greatest country on the planet -- that's the United States -- but it deserves a great deal more respect than you're showing it.
Specially the ones who conquered so much land from mexico. Was the denver area part of the spoils of that war?
The good part is that it was done in innocence. Another good part is that there is intent to rectify and comply w/ proper flag etiquette.
Oh, great ... next will come the black students wanting a mural to depict the African National Unity flag and then ... where does it end?
There shouldn't be anything depicted in taxpayer supported public schools except depictions of the American flag. Is that too much to ask? If they're so in love with a foreign culture, then they have no reason being here in the United States.
I guess that, if only Red-Bloodied Americans are the only ones that are offended....then no one in authority really cares....
Why doesn't he just admit a mistake was made and right the wrong? It's a shame this young lady had to suffer this embarrassment due to lack of leadership within her school. Every teacher who saw her working on this should have corrected her at the time. But noooooooo, not one d@^^n one of them cared enough about our flag to know, themselves, that she was making a mistake. What a bunch of $uck@ss government whores.
Waving a Mexican flag on US soil a show of unity? I don't think so. What kind of semantic bull is this.
More than likely, her organization has enforced her beliefs, just as her parents have probably done through the belief that they should be able to fly the Mexican flag as though it were equal to the American flag in this country.
This type of logic is a farse, and it does injustice to the men who fought and died for this country and the many freedoms that it entails. These Vets are not crocky-old men, and they should be treated with respect. I cannot believe that there are some in this country who do not care about these men who gave all.
The painting of a Mexican flag in an American school should be treated as the outrage that it is. For one, this is America, not Mexico. Secondly, unless the school has a mascot known as the Padres, Tamales, etc., then there is no reason to display symbols of Mexico. Thirdly, if they are going to paint a Mexican flag, why not paint a Chinese flag, a Japanese flag, a German flag, a British flag, etc., for I'm sure that there are many recent immigrants from these countries that are now attending the school. I mean, we might as well be fair, right? You get the picture don't you? It makes no sense. Furthermore, all this multiculturalism only works to divide us. American kids, I'm sure, do not take kind to seeing the painting of a Mexican flag in their school cafeteria, which, I might add, is an American school. It's as if people use the fact that because a lot of Mexicans, many illegal, have immigrated to the area, that it somehow gives them a special privlege to display the Mexican flag as though it is somehow equivalent in the U.S. What about all those years that there were very few Mexicans in the school? Does their sudden migration into the area grant them special rights? Fourthly, the preceding sentence plays onto another reason why it is absurd to display the Mexican flag. The land never belonged to Mexico, nor had any influence, thus what's the purpose?
I respect the American Legion members for their stand, for they are doing the right thing. The Legion is a well-respected dignified, patriotic organization, and it too deserves respect. They're merely pointing out the flaws of a system of rampant "multiculturalism" that has invaded the public schools, particularly within the past five to seven years. Trust me, I see it all the time, for I often substitute in the public schools. It's very shocking how profound this mantra is drilled into the school textbooks, lesson plans, assemblies, charts and displays throughout the school. This is no different. I, for one, respect the men who fought for this country, and for the flag that they fought under. To equate the Mexican flag with Old Glory, in this country, in a taxpayer funded school, is completely inexcusable.
Want to get sick got to this site, scroll down on the left (below the Los Angeles Capital of Aztlan time& temp, and above the Stop Military Aid to Israel) is a picture of the Mexican Iwo Jima Flag Raising....
http://www.aztlan.net/
We need to close our southern border, repatriate all illegals, and put an immediate stop to immigration before we lose what's left of our American culture.
BFD!
Buncha wanna be whiners!
Little girl didn't know what is really up.
You f*ckers want to slam her.
And I'm a vet.
I've lost friends who were vets.
Get with the times, get to know 'your country', approach the ignorant with kindness and understanding, not venom!!
Sounds like my cranky old man of a Korean War Vet who has no life and sits in front of the TV EVERY day!
Get a clue, Duhhh!
Ridiculous.