just when the fuck Cinco de Mayo became an American holiday?
The assistant principal who told the boys to turn their shirts inside out should be fired and blacklisted.
Cinco de Mayo is the Mexican independence day. Let Mexicans in Mexico celebrate May 5. For people in the US — including those of the Hispanic persuasion — May 5 should be just another day.
H/T.
Related: We were in Applebees the other night and apparently the corporation was celebrating some damn “ten days of Cinco de Mayo” promotion. I flatly told the waitress (who happens to be a good friend of ours and knows my conservative propensities) that Cinco de Mayo was not an American holiday and that I didn’t celebrate it. Of course, she was flacking the free taco appetizers, and I really don’t like tacos anyway 🙂
LATER: Ah, it goes deeper than I thought:
So here we have the Principal and the Vice-Principal of an American high school treating the Stars and Stripes as if it was a gang bandanna; even worse, the school administrators took sides in this imaginary US-vs.-Mexico gang fight by allowing the widespread display of Mexican flags on campus but banning (under threat of punishment) any display of the American flag.
Hmm.
Zombie adds (and I have to admit that I did not know this; I’d always been told that May 5 was their Independence Day):
Furthermore, remember that Cinco de Mayo is actually a minor holiday in Mexico itself, commemorating a little-known military victory; Mexican Independence Day is on September 16, not May 5.
The more you know.
As far as I can tell, Cinco de Mayo was adopted the same way as St. Patrick’s Day, and for the same reason: It’s a socially acceptable excuse to get really stinking drunk regardless of the day of the week.
Also: tacos. But that’s about it.
Sure yeah whatevah. But nothing political about it. And yeah, I know, St. Patrick’s Day started out as nothing BUT political.
The problem is that it seems to have become a day for people to take to the streets and agitate for open borders and legalization of the illegals already among us. Which makes it political, and IMHO makes it unsuitable to be celebrated in schools.