{"id":13882,"date":"2014-05-06T08:31:22","date_gmt":"2014-05-06T08:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13882"},"modified":"2014-05-06T08:31:22","modified_gmt":"2014-05-06T08:31:22","slug":"waving-an-american-flag-is-racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13882","title":{"rendered":"Waving an American flag is ‘racist’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Americans now are being blasted as \u201cracist\u201d for the simple act of waving an American flag.<\/p>\n

It happened Monday in California to a small group of protesters who waved U.S. flags in front of a school where officials had banned the practice to avoid violence threatened by Hispanic students celebrating Cinco de Mayo.<\/p>\n

The controversy developed in 2010, when school officials ordered students not to wear U.S. flag-themed shirts on the Mexican holiday. The ban has been upheld by a federal appeals court.<\/p>\n

The controversy brought a small group of protesters out Monday, and the community reacted immediately.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat\u2019s wrong with these white people holding up American flags in Morgan hill??? Racist a\u2013holes,\u201d wrote Gia Lee in a feed monitored by Twitchy.<\/p>\n

The report also noted the school superintendent was confirming that students wearing American flag-themed shirts on Monday \u201cwon\u2019t be kicked out.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cRead that sentence again and then cringe at the fact that had to be said in the United States,\u201d the Twitchy report said.<\/p>\n

The San Francisco Chronicle reported a group called Gilroy-Morgan Hill Patriots stood in front of Live Oak High School for about an hour waving American flags.<\/p>\n

The protest followed the decision earlier this year by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals that school officials, in a dispute four years ago, were right to suspend the First Amendment rights of students who wanted to wear U.S. flag-themed shirts on Cinco de Mayo.<\/p>\n

Mexican students allegedly had threatened violence because of the shirts, and school officials, consequently, suspended the right of other students to wear Old Glory.<\/p>\n

Source: WND<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Americans now are being blasted as \u201cracist\u201d for the simple act of waving an American flag. It happened Monday in California to a small group of protesters who waved U.S. flags in front of a school where officials had banned the practice to avoid violence threatened by Hispanic students celebrating Cinco de Mayo. The controversy … Continue reading “Waving an American flag is ‘racist’”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[8912,8913,8911],"class_list":["post-13882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-united-states","tag-american-flag","tag-cinco-de-mayo","tag-old-glory"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/torn_flag.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13884,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13882\/revisions\/13884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}