School Tells Boy to Remove the American Flag on his Bike

 by Duane Lester

A California 13-year-old has been told by the local arm of the educational industrial complex that the American flag he attached to his bike has to go.  It could cause racial tensions.
Yeah, you read that right:

“(The) First Amendment is important,” Superintendent Edward Parraz said. “We want the kids to respect it, understand it, and with that comes a responsiblity.”

Parraz said the campus has recently experienced some racial tension. He said some students got out of hand on Cinco de Mayo.

“Our Hispanic, you know, kids will, you know, bring their Mexican flags and they’ll display it, and then of course the kids would do the American flag situation, and it does cause kind of a racial tension which we don’t really want,” Parraz said. “We want them to appreciate the cultures.”

So if I’m picking up what Parraz is putting down, thirteen-year-old Cody Alicea can’t keep the flag on his bike because some Mexican kids might start a riot.

That sounds like stereotyping to me.  That sounds almost racist.
I think it’s dangerous to assume that a group of young men, because they have darker skin or speak a different languange, might resort to physical violence because they see the Stars and Stripes.
Is it just me, or is this superintendent racist?

On a serious note, what flag flies outside of this school?  What flag to they pledge allegiance to each morning, if they still do that (it is California, after all)?

People shouldn’t have their patriotism suppressed because others might react violently to such behavior.  You punish the negative reaction.  You don’t restrict the rights of the law abiding.

Now I suppose Cody could have put the flag on his bike in order to raise the hackles on the back of the local students with Mexican roots, but perhaps that needs to be addressed.

Two things, Cody, stop antagonizing.  And local students with Mexican roots, you’re in America now.  Learn to love the flag and stop being so damn touchy.

It’s called a melting pot.  If we allow ourselves to be divided on lines of race or national heritage, we won’t be a strong country, but a nation of groups.  While that might work for the Marxists and the liberals, it’s not what America is supposed to be.

We are Americans first.
Remember the words of Teddy Roosevelt:

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all.

This is just as true of the man who puts “native” before the hyphen as of the man who puts German or Irish or English or French before the hyphen. Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must be purely to the United States. We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance.

But if he is heartily and singly loyal to this Republic, then no matter where he was born, he is just as good an American as any one else.

The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities…

Of course, there isn’t a school in the country that is willing to teach that lesson.