Friday, May 07, 2010

Close the school start over


Your tax dollars hard at work. If you show up at school on May 5th in red, white and blue you get told that the colors or you have to go. Let me see? What exactly is the significance of May 5th to America? Oh, yeah a day to put on a sombrero and drink beer. Sort of a Mexican St. Patrick's Day. And I'm all for it!
What I'm 110% against is some @$$hole principal and assistant principal telling anyone that they cannot wear a t-shirt with and American flag on it. But that is what happened to some kids at Live Oaks High School in CA.
Oh those kids. Several years ago those kids put up the flag display above at Motobello HS. Did the principle have a problem with that?
OK, once you say a (fill in the blank) in California - or as the muscle-head governor calls it Cullyforneea - anything is possible and believable. But what the hell? This is America. In one of the more articulate comments coming out of the school defending the decision, school student Annicia Nunez said, "I think they should apologize because it's a Mexican heritage day. We don't deserve to be get disrespected like that. We wouldn't do that on the Forth of July." No that is not Lex fat fingering the keyboard. That is the quote. And Annicia, most students have left school for the summer by the Fourth of July.
Hmmm, maybe a little English as a second language would be a better issue for the principal and assistant principal to get involved in. Then a "Mexican heritage day?" What is that? A day to celebrate being over run by Euro trash? First, by the Spanish, then the French, then President Polk taking a large swath of northern Mexico, then toying with a German offer to return Texas to Mexico if they join the central power in WWI, then 2 centuries of corrupt rulers and governments that have so fractured Mexican society along social and class lines that 3/4 of the people would be better off if they could just sneak across the northern border, is that heritage? Some heritage.
No this is NOT a slam of the Mexican people. They are a hard working creative bunch. They have been saddled with generation after generation of "me first" corruptocratic governments at every level. There is a better chance of the Bengals winning the Super Bowl every year than there is of the average Mexican improving his lot in life in his native country because of government corruption. So they move north. The Mexican government could not care less as long as the Mexican's hard earned Yankee greenbacks return to Mexico.
That is what business guru Michael Scott refers to as a win, win, win situation. The Mexican government rids itself of poor unskilled workers who move north to work for slave wages - which is a lot of money to them - and the US employer gets to pimp his competition by taking advantage of a compliant hard working illegal labor pool. Everybody wins except the ranchers who get murdered, except the kids whose lives are ruined in drug infested gangs activities, except employers who play by the rules, except our overcrowded school system, except the nearly destroyed inner city health care systems, except the welfare system, except the poor Hispanic migrants who get kidnapped and sold into prostitution and slave labor. Other than that everything has worked out great.
So what to do with Live Oaks High School. I'm not a proponent of suing for the most part. But if I were one of these parents I'd sue the school, the school board, the state of Cullyforneea, the principal and assistant principal, the teacher's union, the city, the mayor and anybody even remotely associated with this outrage.
When some bleeding heart told me, "well you know you're just hurting the school." I'd reply, "You're damned right! I'm trying to do the nation a favor and shut the whole dysfunctional backward thing down."

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