Teachers sent home five Morgan Hill, CA, high school students this week for wearing American flag t-shirts and bandanas on the Mexican holiday Cinco de Mayo. The boys — of whom four are Caucasian and one is Hispanic — said they were just being "patriotic." The school's vice principal, however, argued that their "incendiary" clothing could start fights and about 200 Hispanic students walked out of class Thursday to protest the way the wardrobe choices "disrespected" them. Was sending the flag-adorned students home the wrong move? (Watch a local report about the incident)
America's a free country: "Since when is it incendiary to express patriotism for one’s own country?" asks Ed Morrissey in Hot Air. If Hispanic students "want to 'express themselves' by celebrating Cinco de Mayo, then they should be prepared to allow others to express themselves as well."
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