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Originally Posted by Fotzlid
[Cinco De Mayo] is nothing more than an excuse to get drunk.
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I know! Look at all these alcoholics....just sitting around and drinking too many Coronas. Even the children. For shame!
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The school administrator was out of line asking the kids to remove the t-shirts. The "Mexican-Americans" (in quotes because they are really Americans of Mexican descent. Something a lot of people are all too eager to overlook.) are just playing the typical race card/I feel disrespected because that is the currently accepted way for them to react to things they don't like. If they are truly Mexican, then they need to get over it. Its not their country.
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I don't think this gets the flag-wearing kids off the hook, especially if they went out of their way to incite the Mexican American kids who were into celebrating Cinco de Mayo. (And out of curiosity, do you also place
African American in quotations? You know, for those who are really Americans of African descent? I think "American" by itself is too vague. It should be "United American" or something by default if you live in the United States. I, for example, am a North American as a Canadian. The United States of America has the difficulty of having a very boring and officious name that causes problems such as these.)
It's not simply playing the race card if these flag-wearers went out of their way to rub it in their faces.
That would be disrespectful.