The U.S. Supreme Court refused to review a case this past Monday regarding a California school’s banning of clothing displaying the American flag.
Three students had filed an appeal on a ruling by California’s Ninth Circuit court that school officials at Live Oak High School in the town of Morgan Hill didn’t violate the free speech rights of students by forcing them to remove any garment bearing the U.S flag on Cinco de Mayo.
The school has been troubled with racial tensions between whites and Hispanics and the school felt that any symbol of American patriotism could spark violence in the face of Mexican students celebrating their holiday.
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Always wondered why the US celebrates Cinco de Mayo
This is bull$#%&!@* our flag is the only one there should be…..
This just goes to show you, that America is losing ground on being American…the people runing this country are all going nuts!!!!
…the supreme Court doesn’t have “jurisdiction” over California schools; neither does the federal district court. IT IS A SOVEREIGN STATE MATTER; needs to be in state court or pull your kids out.
I’m sure it would be perfectly ok to display ANY Islamic flag, though!
Just WTF
What a bunch of c**p
How shameful. Never would have happened when I went there.
…Cinco de Mayo is the only battle that mexico ever won and it was not on American soil. They had already signed the treaty of hlldago and the United States had all LAND but the Gadsen purchase…IT IS NOT AN AMERICAN HOLIDAY, IT IS NOT A CALIFORNIA HOLIDAY and the celebration is DISRUPTIVE TO ME AND MY AMERICAN CHILDREN. Stick your flag on the pole in Mexican soil….it doesn’t fly “here…
This day is not Mexico’s independence day. Mexican independence is celebrated on Sept.16. Cinco de Mayo commemorates the Mexican army’s unlikely victory over the French forces of Napoleon III on May 5, 1862, at the Battle of Puebla…