h/t The Corner
Four California high-school students were reportedly suspended for chanting “U.S.A! U.S.A!” and wearing American flag bandanas during a basketball game. While their punishment has since been rescinded, school administrators said “the incident is far from over.”
Oxnard Union School District superintendent Gabe Soumakian told Fox News that “we need to pursue this further” and “work with teachers and students and the community about the concept of cultural proficiency.” Soumakian and Camarillo High School principal Glenn Lipman felt that the students’ actions might have had racist undertones since the schools have large Hispanic student populations.
This is beyond wearisome. I’ve lived in the Southwest my entire life and attended schools with “large Hispanic student populations” and it has never, ever been deemed racist to be a patriotic American. The officials involved in this should be tossed out on their politically correct you-know-whats for attempting to ascribe racism to the mere presence of a representation of the American flag or chanting “USA”.
Also, if you watch the video, you can see pretty much all of the students participating in the chant, it doesn’t appear that anyone was overcome with the sensitivity that had the administrators reaching for hankies.
What we need to pursue further is the eradication of the inane psychological projection of Messrs. Soumakian and Lipman.
The large amount of hispanic youth who join the military, especially those who join the military services as a way to become citizens will find this very troublesome.
Hispanics can’t be patriotic Americans? Isn’t that itself racist?
Stop using logic! It’s raaaaacist!
This is my WTF moment of the day. In a day with plenty of contenders.
Well, videos exists of Hispanics in US schools doing things like flying the US flag upside down on “Cinco de Mayo”, verbally savaging students who wear red white and blue, refusing to sing or stand during the National Anthem, and agitating and chanting for genocidal and seditious outfits like “la Raza”, etc. these are not in any sense Americans.
The poisonous and lethal seeds of Leftist “identity politics” has taken deep root. When/if the catastrophe of amnesty occurs for the estimated 11,000,000 illegals (and I suspect this number is substantially higher), America will not have 11,000,000 new and grateful immigrants – it won’t have 11,000,000 newly minted and proud Americans, it will mostly have many MANY millions of aggrieved non-Americans who will possess all the legal protections and rights of full citizens from a nation they will spend the rest of their lives savaging and and ravaging.
These school administrators should be fired and replaced…. But they are only reflecting the cancerous cultural milieu in which they operate.
– nards.
“…the concept of cultural proficiency.”
Gibberish.
The low life libroid administration would have been happier if the students had chanted: “Fidel”, Fidel,Fidel…”.
Or maybe, “U.S. Che! U.S. Che! U.S. Che!”
I’m just curious as to what the reaction would have been if some of the students sported do-rags of the Mexican flag and chanted “La Raza, La Raza!”. Probably nothing. I’ve spent some time in Oxnard and that is most definitely not a preposterous scenario.
Glenn.Lipman@ouhsd.k12.ca.us