Students Sent Home for Wearing American Flag Shirts on Cinco De Mayo

This is unbelievable. It's now considered offensive to wear a shirt with the American flag on it? What bullcrap. It's so sad what is happening to America when we have to feel bad about being American in our own country. I'm an immigrant and there is now way I would ever be offended by people wearing an American flag shirt or hat or anything on any of my holidays (and am I supposed to be offended by Christmas songs on Chanukah?), so why should the Mexican-American students feel offended by American flags on cinco de mayo? Are they Americans or Mexicans? Supposedly they are Americans too:

On any other day at Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill, Daniel Galli and his four friends would not even be noticed for wearing T-shirts with the American flag. But Cinco de Mayo is not any typical day especially on a campus with a large Mexican American student population.

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."

The boys said the administrators called their T-shirts "incendiary" that would lead to fights on campus.