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2006-03-31 Home Front: Culture Wars
Mexican flag burned after students raise it over AZ school
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Posted by lotp 2006-03-31 07:52|| || Front Page|| [11131 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Gee, wonder what "hate crime" the AZ Repulsive is going to whine about in the Sunday editorials....
Posted by Desert Blondie 2006-03-31 08:25|| http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com]">[http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com]  2006-03-31 08:25|| Front Page Top

#2 Battle of the burning flags in 5... 4...
Posted by eLarson 2006-03-31 08:50|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com]  2006-03-31 08:50|| Front Page Top

#3 "I know (they) shouldn't have burned the Mexican flag," said sophomore Jacob Stewart, 16. "I heard it was raised above the American flag, and that just irked me."

It’s called being a patriot son, listen to your instincts they are right on this one. And by the way, it’s NOT WRONG to burn the flag of a foreign country that is flown above the American flag on US soil. Good job to you kid, you understand it clearer than most!
Posted by 49 Pan">49 Pan  2006-03-31 08:50||   2006-03-31 08:50|| Front Page Top

#4 Demographic shifts in the Phoenix (sometimes pronounced "Pee-nis") Metro area have resulted in sometimes silly efforts to cater to (patronize) ethnic groups.

One such example was Marcos de Niza high school, which when built was going to have an almost entirely Mexican-American student body and faculty. So the school was built and decorated with Mexican culture in mind.

10 years later, the school was almost entirely white. However, in that same time another school in the area which had been almost entirely white became both black and Mexican.

With such demographic shifts, unless you are a longtime resident, you probably have no idea even where the local minorities live. This tends to take a lot of steam out of racial problems, except, ironically, in the high schools, where ethnic minorities are concentrated.

Since the Metro area is in total almost 1,000 square miles, this can sometimes get weird. When Vietnam fell, almost 60,000 Vietnamese relocated to the Valley of the Sun, and nobody noticed.
Posted by Anonymoose 2006-03-31 09:28||   2006-03-31 09:28|| Front Page Top

#5 Apache Junction

Wait till the real native Americans start to way into the discussion. Many have no love for their former hispanic overlords and the tribes keep alive the memories.
Posted by Omaiting Shineper6088 2006-03-31 09:31||   2006-03-31 09:31|| Front Page Top

#6 Good. You don't go to another country, raise your country above the host country and expect to walk the next day. I would expect a severe beating or worse if I did that in Germany, France, China or others. I expect no less here.
Posted by DarthVader 2006-03-31 09:43||   2006-03-31 09:43|| Front Page Top

#7 We only burn our own flags, we don't burn others.

When we start, the world will take notice.
Posted by anonymous2u 2006-03-31 10:55||   2006-03-31 10:55|| Front Page Top

#8 When Vietnam fell, almost 60,000 Vietnamese relocated to the Valley of the Sun, and nobody noticed.

Maybe that's because they settle in, go to school, learn english, get jobs and don't demand that everyone notice them and change their lifestyles for them.
Posted by 2b 2006-03-31 11:25||   2006-03-31 11:25|| Front Page Top

#9 massive immigrant rights protests

Overstatement alert.
Posted by DoDo 2006-03-31 11:50||   2006-03-31 11:50|| Front Page Top

#10 ungrateful brats, these people need to realize that they are illegally in this country, illegally! As in NOT legal...we need to realize that fact and face up to our own laws and enforce them accordingly instead of continuing to hire them and saving a buck, the real cost is born by the rest of "us" citizens, not that I dont like Mexicans and Mexico, it's the illegal part I have a problem with. Immegrate LEGALLY and more power to you amigos.
Posted by bk 2006-03-31 12:50||   2006-03-31 12:50|| Front Page Top

#11 When I went to school, not hell or high water would postpone the ass kicking to follow.
Posted by wxjames 2006-03-31 13:47||   2006-03-31 13:47|| Front Page Top

#12 "Wait till the real native Americans start to way into the discussion. Many have no love for their former hispanic overlords and the tribes keep alive the memories."

Geronimo was a medicine man until his wife and children were murdered during a "peaceful" trading encounter in 1858.
Posted by Ernest Brown 2006-03-31 15:58|| saturninretrograde.blogspot.com]">[saturninretrograde.blogspot.com]  2006-03-31 15:58|| Front Page Top

#13 ...by Mexicans
Posted by Ernest Brown 2006-03-31 16:45|| saturninretrograde.blogspot.com]">[saturninretrograde.blogspot.com]  2006-03-31 16:45|| Front Page Top

#14 First of all, Apaches see themselves as just above Mexicans on the food chain. As late as Pershing's expedition into Mexico after Poncho Villa, the Apache tribes just assumed that they would be accompanying the US Army. When politely told that their services would not be required, there was considerable consternation, along with suggestions that they go anyway, if for no other reason than to preserve the balance of nature by culling as many Mexicans as they could capture.

That being said, Geronimo was small fry. Far more impressive was Cochise, who was to Geronimo as a General is to a Captain. There is a reasonably good Wiki on Cochise, but it understates many of his accomplishments.
Posted by Anonymoose 2006-03-31 21:04||   2006-03-31 21:04|| Front Page Top

#15 "Just above" or "far above" Anonymoose?
Posted by trailing wife 2006-03-31 22:21||   2006-03-31 22:21|| Front Page Top

#16 Well, in Mexican movies, if they want a really evil villain, usually chief henchman, he will be an Apache. They often fought the Mexican army to a standstill. Very tough people.
Posted by Anonymoose 2006-03-31 23:01||   2006-03-31 23:01|| Front Page Top

#17 I would've put that burning flag out with water (after it had ran through my kidneys first).
Posted by Broadhead6 2006-03-31 23:38||   2006-03-31 23:38|| Front Page Top

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