Carrying The Mexican Flag

If you believe this, I have a bridge in Brooklyn you may be interested in purchasing.

Some called for those carrying the Mexican flag to return to Mexico. Others questioned why immigrants demanding rights in the United States would wave symbols of Mexico.

But those who carried them, and scholars of the immigrant community, say that pride in their culture should not be misconstrued as a lack of patriotism in their adopted nation.

"Nobody gets upset with the Irish on St. Patrick's Day," said Gabriela Lemus, director of policy and legislation at the Washington, D.C.- based League of United Latin American Citizens, the group that organized most of the recent protests and is heading the dozens of marches and rallies scheduled across the nation Monday.

That's right, because anyone carrying an Irish flag on St. Patrick's day isn't protesting and demanding rights they aren't entitled to if they were here ILLEGALLY.

"The Mexican flag is like a symbol of dignity and identity and pride for the people who carry it," said Dolores Huerta, who co-founded the United Farm Workers of America with Cesar Chavez. "If people try to read more into that flag than what it is, they're wrong."

What am I supposed to read into it when they start burning the American flag?  What am I supposed to read into it when they have signs telling non-Mexicans to go back to Europe?  What am I suppose to read into it when they demand that the US cede California and most of the southwest to Mexico?

"(Immigrants) have been trying for some time to imagine themselves as a part of the United States," he added. "What they've experienced is refusal."

Try coming in LEGALLY and you might get a better reaction. 

If Mexico means that much to you, then leave.  Go home.  And again, we all know why you don't.  Mexico is a third world slime pit run by corrupt pseudo-Socialists who have the economy tied up in so much crap, it's almost impossible for a person there to better themselves.

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Comments

[LC]

Ready to get really pi$$ed off? I found this in the European edition of the Stars & Stripes.
ACLU seeks apology for Virginia pupils in Latino T-shirt
http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=135366

DISGUSTNG!
LC

[Jenn]

Yeah, I've got to remmeber not to read AP reports right after eating breakfast. Check out the little gem on my blog this morning.

[kristinaQ]

They have some nerve to demand and demand when they shouldn't be here in the first place. Jeez..

[Just another republican]

"The Mexican flag is like a symbol of dignity and identity and pride for the people who carry it,"

Yup but the American flag that means absoultely dirt. No identity or pride in that thing. Nope. Not one bit. Suitable only for burning and spitting on when you have abosulutely no idea or clue.

Such hypocracy makes me sick.