4 Live Oak High School teens were sent home on May 5th for wearing t-shirts depicting the American flag.
There are a few things that are misunderstood about the "Mexican Holiday Cinco de Mayo".
The first one being that May 5th is Mexico's Independence Day - which is actually September 15th. On May 5th, 1862 Mexico defeated France in the Battle of Puebla. This was obviously an important victory but it is not a national holiday in Mexico.
The second tidbit is that Corona Extra (yes the beer company) began exporting to the USA in 1979 and used Cinco de Mayo as a marketing ploy to sell more beer. Their marketing campaign has been so successful that morons in this country are protesting 4 teens wearing American flag t-shirts on May 5th. In fact, an estimated 200 students took to the streets around the city to protest the 4 teens for wearing patriotic t-shirts on a beer company holiday.
No word on how many of the 200 teens were ticketed for truancy and/or disorderly conduct for leaving school and disrupting traffic.
Friday, May 7, 2010
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Mexico didn't make it a Holiday so they all come here illegally to celebrate it. If for some reason people leave their country and come to a new one they should adopt our ways or stay where they are! I am sick of everything I buy having English and Spanish written on the carton or on the instructions. If the lettering gets any smaller they'll have to strap a magnifying glass on their product just so we can read it. Isn't putting Spanish on everything a little dicriminatory? Now all the Chinese, Japanese, Indians, Italians, Greeks, Polish, Russians and all other Nationalities should have the right to have their language on all the food containers and instruction papers on products to buy. OR we could just make it simple and make it so if people wanted to know what it said they'd have to learn English. Stop catering to illegals!
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