High school kids in an American high school were threatened with suspension for not taking off t-shirts with the American flag on them. The reason? The school’s administration didn’t want to offend Mexican-Americans on Cinco de Mayo:

Galli says he and his friends were sitting at a table during brunch break when the vice principal asked two of the boys to remove American flag bandannas that they wearing on their heads and for the others to turn their American flag T-shirts inside out. When they refused, the boys were ordered to go to the principal’s office.

“They said we could wear it on any other day,” Daniel Galli said, “but today is sensitive to Mexican-Americans because it’s supposed to be their holiday so we were not allowed to wear it today.”

First off, if the Mexican-American students might be offended by the American flag, then maybe they’re not Mexican-Americans at all, but simply Mexicans. No American should be offended by the flag, not even hyphenated ones.

Second, why is Cinco de Mayo even an issue at an American high school? I don’t care about Cinco de Mayo, and most Americans don’t, either. Our president cares little enough about it to have referred to it as Cinco de Quatro. As a matter of fact, not a lot of Mexicans in Mexico care about it:

While Cinco de Mayo sees limited significance and celebration nationwide in Mexico, the date is observed nationwide in the United States and other locations around the world as a celebration of Mexican heritage and pride.

It’s a Mexican political holiday that has nothing to do with people of Mexican heritage who are now Americans. The Fourth of July should be their designated patriotic holiday, one would think.

I have no problem with anyone, Americans or Mexican-Americans, celebrating a holiday whose main purpose seems to be to sell Mexican beer in American bars. Knock yourself out. But spare me the multi-culti idiocy that it’s some kind of sacred thing, and that the mere wearing of an American flag is something nigh to a hate crime.

Video here.