Let me get this straight. According to the Supreme Court, burning the American flag is protected speech under the First Amendment. Yet in order to protect the sensibilities of Mexican-American students celebrating the Mexican holiday of Cinco de Mayo, a California Bay area school decided that high school students would not be permitted to wear t-shirts emblazoned with the American flag.
The Mexican-American students were allowed to display the Mexican flag as well as dress in the colors of the Mexican flag, but those naughty kids wearing American flag t-shirts were sent home on Cinco de Mayo after an administrator at the high school complained that the American flag t-shirt was “incendiary.”
Here is what one of the aggrieved Mexican-American students had to say about those “incendiary” trouble-makers daring to display the stars and stripes in a U.S. public school:
I think they should apologize cause it is a Mexican Heritage Day. We don’t deserve to be get disrespected like that. We wouldn’t do that on Fourth of July.
Isn’t that nice of them?
Even Bill O’Reilly – in his mission to prove how fair and balanced he is – said last night on “The Factor” that the school administrator was correct in order to prevent a fight from breaking out. Speaking with Fox News anchor and legal expert Megyn Kelly who understood the First Amendment implications, which seemed to elude O’Reilly, he had the following exchange:
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