Equal But Separate?
different rules for different skoolz
Five Morgan Hill, California students were asked to take off their American flag bandannas and turn their T-shirts inside out after ... members of Live Oak High School’s large Mexican-American student population that felt it was offensive for the students to wear the American flag on a day that’s supposed to celebrate Mexican heritage.
...When the boys refused to take off their flag t-shirts and bandannas, they were ordered to go to the principal’s office.
“They said we could wear it on any other day,” Live Oak student 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.”
The alleged concern was that the T-shirts would lead to fights on campus.
So those who would start fights were not warned or penalized… Is it raaaacist to assume the Mexican kids couldn’t behave rationally? Is it the soft bigotry of lowered expectations to feel the need to arrange everything so as to cushion one group from ...well, reality?
"I think they should apologize cause it is a Mexican heritage day,” Annicia Nunez, a Live Oak High student, told NBC. “We don’t deserve to be get disrespected like that. We wouldn’t do that on Fourth of July."
rly?
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