High School Students‘ ’USA! USA!’ Victory Chant Deemed Racial Insult
- Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:16am by
Madeleine Morgenstern
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A Texas school district has filed a complaint after students chanted "U-S-A! U-S-A!" after their basketball team beat a predominantly Hispanic school in a regional tournament. (Image source: San Antonio News-Express)
In what is being described as an incident of racism, a school district in Texas has filed a complaint after some rival high school students chanted “U-S-A! U-S-A!” to celebrate a basketball victory. And some of the students involved have now been punished and forced to apologize.
Student supporters at Alamo Heights High School started the celebratory chant after their team clinched a regional championship against San Antonio Edison High School on Saturday, the San Antonio News-Express reported.
Edison High School is predominantly Hispanic, and officials at the San Antonio Independent School District took the chant as a racial insult from supporters of the largely white Alamo Heights team.
According to the News-Express, the chant lasted only about five seconds before Alamo Heights head coach Andrew Brewer quickly silenced the students. Nevertheless, SAISD athletic director Gil Garza on Tuesday filed a complaint with the University Interscholastic League, which oversees extracurricular activities in Texas public schools.
“Our kids try real hard and work extra hard to get to the regional tournament, and then we have to worry about them being subjected to this kind of insensitivity,” Garza told San Antonio’s KENS-TV. “To be attacked about your ethnicity and being made to feel that you don’t belong in this country is terrible. Why can’t people just applaud our kids? It just gets old and I’m sick of it. Once again, we‘re on pins and needles wondering what’s going to happen.”
Alamo Heights Independent School District Kevin Brown apologized to SAISD officials for the incident, and said some of the students who participated in the chant were Hispanic themselves. The dozen or so students identified will apologize and are barred from attending Thursday’s state semifinal game, local NBC affiliate WOAI-TV reported.
“Obviously, we were disappointed that this happened,” Brown told KENS. “That‘s not who we are as a community and that’s not who we are as a school. It‘s not something that’s acceptable for us. Our kids are very respectable. We have to remember that they’re teenagers, and kids make mistakes.”
He continued, “We have tried to use this as a teachable moment for them. We have talked to our students. We’ve taken responsibility for it, although what happened is not representative of everybody who was there.”
According to the News-Express, Edison coach Art Vela said his players were already in the locker room when the chant erupted and that they didn’t hear it.
Nevertheless, it’s the second year in a row such an incident has occurred after the tournament. Last year, students at a different high school chanted “U-S-A! U-S-A!“ and ”Arizona! Arizona!” after they beat another school. The “Arizona!” chant was in reference to the state’s illegal immigration bill.
“Our kids deserve better than hearing what they did after the game from those Alamo Heights students, even if it was just for a few seconds,” Garza said. “Once it’s out, it’s out.”
Joe “Pags” Pagliarulo — a nationally syndicated radio host based in San Antonio and frequent fill-in for Glenn Beck — on Wednesday blasted the local media coverage of the controversy, saying reporters demonized the “U-S-A!” chant, rather than presenting the story as students misusing it as a taunt. Listen below:
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Darla_K
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:38amDon’t like our USA chants? Get the hell out of our Country.
Report Post »copatriots
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:43amAgreed!
USA, USA, USA, USA, USA
Report Post »copatriots
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:52amGarza told San Antonio’s KENS-TV. “To be attacked about your ethnicity and being made to feel that you don’t belong in this country is terrible. Once again, we‘re on pins and needles wondering what’s going to happen.”
Isn‘t Obama’s America wonderful? Divide, divide, divide.
Maybe Mr. Garza can tell us how many kids on his team are actually in the country legally. “Once again”, Mr. Garza, the citizens of the USA are on “pins and needles” wondering how our country is going to survive the plentiful “entitled” ILLEGALS on the USA’s dole.
Report Post »afishfarted
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:53amO K, enough is enough. This is indoctrination gone nuts. When they tell American Citizens — who just happen to be students — they can’t be proud of their heritage while they let students in California take down the American flag and replace it with the Mexican flag, it’s time to raise hell in the streets. The parents and Citizens of Alamo Heights BETTER march in the streets carrying American flags, and call for the ouster of the entire school board.
If they don’t, expect the same thing at the next olympics.
Report Post »MidWestMom
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:54amI’d like to know how many of those “offended” students are here illegally and how many are actually US citizens.
Report Post »123456beatriz
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:58amI am agree!
Report Post »riseandshine
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 11:01amI’ve never cared for the U.S.A. chant.
Report Post »zorro
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 11:02amLet’s not get “stuck on stupid”. The students did mean this to be racial and it only painted them to be a bunch of ignorant hicks as every student in BOTH teams was American. These students were a bunch of idiots. No, there is nothing wrong with the USA chant. But it didn’t belong there. How would it have sounded for the crowd to chant USA, USA after the Giants beat the Patriots in the Superbowl? Pretty imbecilic. Well, that’s how these students sounded.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 11:02amI would wager if the other team had won and started chanting Mexico, Mexico .. no PROBLEM! How many cases have we heard where these students identify themselves as Mexican and not American .. then I agree .. you want to be Mexican go to Mexico .. here we chant USA USA USA!
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 11:04am.
Report Post »Sanctuary Cities to flourish in Texas what did ya’ll expect? Hell there’s a Taco Stand in every shopping center parking lot, and hordes of Illegal’s that will swarm your work truck if you pull-up to eat looking to cut your grass……………
RobMac68
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 11:13amBoth were high schools in the U.S. If the team felt the need to chant USA instead of their school name it seems safe to assume this was racially motivated. These students were trying to alienate the other team as not “real Americans” because they are Hispanic. I suppose you also would support a team that chanted “white, white’ after beating a predominately black team.
NWWADD
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 11:25amI second that. USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA
Report Post »drattastic
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 11:25amHad you attended a USA vs Mexico soccer event in San Diego you would see why these kids feel that a USA chant was necessary . Every “Latino” in the stands were cheering for the Mexican National team and jeering team USA but they were ALL GOOD Americans ….right ? People on border states know what the truth is .
Report Post »FormerLib
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 11:27amUneducated twits don’t know the difference between racism and nationalism.
Report Post »watchtheotherhand
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 11:27amI believe that if these students are to be punished then those Mexican students who marched and chanted with Mexican flags should be punished as well. That is what is happening to America. When you do not assimilate then segregation results and you run around trying to make accommodations for all different groups and there is unequal and prejudice “justice” and application of the rules. In our PC climate the minority rules the roost and the majority is silenced and intimidated. We have schools teaching anti-American/pro-Mexican rewritten history, we have illegals getting federal money, we have politicians that knowingly ignore the laws currently on the books and this is all breeding a current of resentment and prejudice against these people unfortunately. Our politicians are not just ruining this country politically but they are changing who we are as a whole because of their corrupt self-serving agendas and idiocy……Man I hate most all politicians….
Report Post »watchtheotherhand
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 11:29am@ ROBMAC..tell us where you live…if you dare.. I guarantee you don’t live on a border state, do you? Of course you could lie but you will know the truth……Denounce the Mexican chants and cheers of Hispanic Americans…..you won’t.
Report Post »I support God's Israel!
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 11:38amAgreed!
USA, USA, USA, USA, USA
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Intense66
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 11:40amDamn Skippy!
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Report Post »BaconSlinger
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 11:43amAssimilate or go back to where you came from!!!!!
Report Post »RobMac68
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 11:47amwatchtheotherhand….with a name like that I would automatically assume you could tell the difference between BS stories and real ones. We are so offended by this PC crap that we can’t tell the difference when it is real or not. This has nothing to do with me living in WV, not a border state. I denounce all chants that are racially motivated. I denounce the Hispanic teacher in L.A. that is indoctrinating his students to believe that the US is evil and will Mexico will soon take over Southern California, if you remember that news story here on the blaze. You make it sound like if you can’t beat them, join them. Just because some idiot Mexican Americans want to chant against the USA doesn‘t mean we should do the same and make these other high school KIDS feel they don’t belong.
Report Post »Marci
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 11:48amHow dare these kids participate in thought crimes. (even if they don’t know what that thought crime is) In the world of thought crimes, you are guilty and rarely proven innocent.
Report Post »watchtheotherhand
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 11:58am@ ROBMAC……….I agree. If you read my post before my response to you, you would see why it is occurring though. The inability to understand that the problem is not overt racism is missed on many in the media and unfortunately those who speak against it. You know as well as I that most of those kids would not have any overt prejudice or racist feelings toward Hispanics except that our current government policies towards those who are here illegally and their inaction against illegals that are committing egregious crimes against US citizens. These kids as with many are fed up with feeling like they are being overrun and paying for those who are here ILLEGALLY. It is the lefts policies that are breeding the divisions all the while they sit back and yell RACISM, HATERS. You have to see the greater picture otherwise you will fall right into the trap that they have set. Were these chants aimed at Hispanics, no doubt, was it because these kids are haters without provocation? We both know why and if you did live on the border you would have a better understanding of the resentment that exists among many citizens. You are calling out a symptom and ignoring the disease. Deal with the disease and the symptoms will soon disappear……
Report Post »NDPINDNT
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 11:59amUsa usa usa usa usa!
Report Post »gramma b
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 12:05pmThese are probably the same “Americans” who cheere the Mexican soccer teams over the US teams. Turnabout is fair play.
Report Post »RobMac68
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 12:12pmyes, I agree and am sorry if I made it seem like I was not considering the feelings of all those concerned with the problem of illegal immigration. I am sooooooo fed up with Obama’s lack of leadership in this area and it seems that our American feelings are to be 2nd to those of illegals. But I did not want to make the mistake of ignoring the feelings of those other KIDS if they truly are Americans. Kids will always rub noses of other kids in a loss when it comes to sports. This story sounded too much like those other stories you talked about where the Mexicans did it to us that I didn’t feel it was right to turn the tables and do it to them.
Report Post »The_Jerk
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 12:17pmHow much more proof does one require to demonstrate that the concept of hate speech is no more than a weapon to be used to silence the majority. There is no such thing as hate speech. There is only free speech.
Report Post »RabidPatriot
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 12:21pmThe problem is that some Hispanics have been in this country longer than it has been the USA. Lots of bigots do not know that. They think everyone that is Hispanic crossed the Rio Grande yesterday. So, a group of Caucasian Americans are trying to diminish fellow Hispanic Americans by insinuating that they are Mexicans. It isn’t that complicated. In that crowd were some patriots chanting USA and in that crowd were some bigots trying to diminish Americans of a different ethnicity. Which are you? It is possible to be a patriot and a tool at the same time.
Report Post »OneCitizenOfTheRepublic
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 12:24pmFrom the mouths of babes…
It is a shame that the freedom of speech rights of the US Citizens were restricted in deference to the Illegal aliens…those who receive preferential treatment in Texas schools, and in-state tuition in Texas colleges while American children are denied the right to attend…because they are white.
The lunatics are running the asylum in Texas Public Education…perhaps it is time to replace the state’s Mexican loving representatives with American loving representatives…
We have no objections to Mexican nationals getting high quality education…so long as they get it in Mexico or pay the prevailing rate in the USA for foreign nationals…
Report Post »NoPaineNoGain
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 12:28pmROBMAC68 has it right. I think Pags and most of you are the ones in need of thicker skin. The students are being forced to apologize for being blatantly disrespectful. They shouldn’t get a pass just because their method involved referencing America.
Report Post »RobMac68
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 12:29pmrapidpatriot…with all the replies I did I was still unable to say it as clear and understandable as you did. thank you, i agree.
Report Post »turkey13
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 12:29pmMr. Garza should have called Homeland Security and had all these players arrested on racial profileing. I didn’t see any Mexicans on that group picture. If they went out with handcuffs on you wouldn’t hear anymore of USA crap. Freedom of Speech can’t be empowered if it offends anyone else.
Report Post »Obama_Sham
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 12:33pm@Robmac
“Both were high schools in the U.S.”
Exactly… Now please tell my why the chant of USA is so bad?!? If both schools are U.S. schools filled with U.S. citizens/legal immigrants, then what is the f4ckin problem?!?
Report Post »Lotus503
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 12:36pmWith all of the crooked, underhanded and generally evil things our government is engaged in against the rights and freedoms of its own people, I believe it may be time to press the reset button on all three branches.
We have an Executive Branch that is ruling by decree, a Judicial Branch that creates laws on its own from the bench and a Legislative Branch that does nothing to keep the other two in check.
It’s all one big power grab at the expense of the American people, and it needs to stop, NOW!
Report Post »BarackStalin
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 12:39pmSoon everyone flying the American flag will be arrested for a hate crime.
Report Post »watchtheotherhand
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 12:40pmROBMAC…I agree with your sentiment. We do not want to justify a wrong by pointing to other wrongs, except to point out the lefts hypocrisy. Yet we must also lQQk to see why these students chanted what they did. It is the current federal policies regarding immigration and all the crap. People are getting fed up. Was this misplaced and ill advised no doubt but the problem are not “bigot kids” the problem are the divisive “progressive” policies of the fed. Ask yourself, are we more unified with a liberal in office or more divide across all lines. Rich/poor, black/white, white/Hispanic, left/right, male/female, young/old. That is the problem we have got to continue to beat that drum when the charge of racism is leveled without explaining why it exists. Thanks for the dialogue…..
Report Post »rose-ellen
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 12:43pmI have to agree with you.this is as absurd as it gets.
Report Post »RobMac68
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 12:58pmObama_Sham…..simply because it seems out-of-place. You ask why it seems out-of-place if the place was the USA. Well, when we do chant USA in the Olympics or when the NBA goes to China to play it is because it is on foreign soil. This game did not happen on foreign soil neither was it against a foreign team on American soil, so why was their victory chant “USA,USA” That is the question that needs answered.
Report Post »blackyb
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 1:04pmThat is right. Don’t like it get the heck out and stay out. This is our country not the country of foreigners.
Report Post »Roberto G. Vasquez
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 1:06pmAnd I suppose that flying the American flag is anti-Mexican? And spending dollars instead of pesos? And singing the National Anthem? And wearing cowbiy boots instead of sandals? This particular school admin is obviously anti-American as well as ignorant and ridiculous. USA! USA! USA!
Report Post »william1
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 1:11pmAfter teaching on the border for seven years, unfortunately, most of the students I taught, 100% Mexican didn’t seem to have much use for America. I not saying all but a great many of the kids in my classes stated that they hated the USA and would not fight for it; however, they loved to brag about Mexico, I’m sorry, Crapco. One of the most dangerous countries in the world. I would say at least 25% of those students I taught were here illegally and they were some real turds. They come over here, get themselves a mailbox and get food stamps, free medical, free education, free breakfast, free lunch, free computers, and it goes on and on. I saw it first hand. I would walk into the grocery store, women with their five children would pull out their Lone Star Card. She couldn’t speak a lick on English, but man, could they ever use that Lone Star Card. They keep getting things given to them and give nothing back except being some of the biggest turds I have ever taught. I am a Christian and it pains me to say these things about other people but the Bible tells us that we must tell the truth.
Report Post »RobMac68
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 1:14pmwatchtheotherhand…thank you for the dialogue….I enjoying being able to discuss different views without being attacked personally because I have a different view…USA, buddy, USA.
Report Post »Cesium
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 1:19pmI’m proud to chant USA when we should. However, this was an American highschool doing this against another American highschool? Not an American highschool versus a Mexican highschool. That would be fine.. I lost to the mexican team and they changed mexico.. I might feel shamed but not offended. If I was living in mexico and went to a predominately american white school and the other team beat us in mexico and then chanted “Mexico” I would get offended because it would obviously be racial…
If you people don’t understand what I just said, it reflects the idiocy so many of you people on the blaze have. Especially those who mistake me for a liberal!
Report Post »McNamara
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 1:27pmUSA! USA! USA! That’s awesome!
Report Post »Baikonur
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 1:34pmI immigrated to the US from the former Soviet Union as a child. You are so Soviet! The unconditional rah-rah-sis-boom-bah for whoever is in power. Sad. Your kind is nervously trying to sniff out commies, but you are the greatest danger.
It is not the left that poses a danger to the American way of life, it is the far right.
Report Post »AmazingGrace8
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 1:35pm@rise & shine
Is that you Mrs. Obama?
Report Post »SacKings2312
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 1:43pmYou’re a bunch of hypocritical morons. If the other side started chanting “Mexico” then you’d be real pissed!
Report Post »Dinkiecb
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 1:51pmUSA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA
Oh and for those that don’t like that … GET THE HELL OUT OF MY COUNTRY!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »mikem1969
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 1:52pmOMG, both the schools are part of Texas, and Texas is a part of the USA. So how does a chant of USA!, USA, USA! show racism. I don’t give a rats butt if a school in the USA is mostly Green freaking aliens from pluto. If they live in the USA, then a chant of USA is all about country and pride, nothing else. I would have refused to apologized, and then chanted USA, USA all the freaking way home. And even if over half the hispanic shcools students were here ILLEGALY, THEY LIVE IN THE USA, GO TO A SCHOOL IN THE USA, THEREFORE SHOULD HAVE PRIDE IN THE USA. Go to HE!! you racist hispanic nutjob.
Report Post »JayCee
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 1:56pmRemember when
GUADALAJARA, Mexico – The boos nearly drowned out “The Star-Spangled Banner,” and a few dozen fans chanted “Osama! Osama!” as the United States was eliminated by Mexico in Olympic men’s soccer qualifying.
http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/4236314/
Report Post »RobMac68
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 2:04pmsackings2312…being they are both American teams, yea, I would be highly pissed if the team with Hispanic kids started chanting Mexico, Mexico.
Report Post »Obama_Sham
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 2:13pm@Robmac
“simply because it seems out-of-place. You ask why it seems out-of-place if the place was the USA.”
And there, in lies the problem… Chanting USA, singing the national anthem, saying the pledge of allegiance, and displaying the American flag should NEVER “seem out of place” in the USA…
Report Post »riseandshine
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 2:16pm@Amazing Grace……I love my country but dislike the chant.. Is that ok?
Report Post »FerretAZ
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 2:42pmAny official seeking an apology should be run out of town! Those kids were well within their rights and should be supported, encouraged , and commended. Be offended friends. Return to MEXICO, MEXICO, MEXICO.
Report Post »tketterer
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 3:09pmaawah,,aawah,,aawah
Report Post »Peachy Keen
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 3:28pmYEAH for the Team showing their patriotism. If the others don’t like it they should get out of the US.
Report Post »Most of them are probably here illegally anyway and living off the taxpayers dollars. What a shame for the coach of that patriotic team to apologize and tell the team to stop saying USA!!!!!! What is the great young nation of the United States of America coming to when outsiders tell us to take down our flags and to not the Pledge of Allegiance and to stop bragging about our great Judeo-Christian nation that so many brave warriors have shed their blood to defend.
watchtheotherhand
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 3:50pmI really do wish everyone would take a big deep breath and relax. We are getting on each other and arguing if it was or wasn’t appropriate. This my fellow Americans misses the point and frankly is a diversion. No one is asking the reason why these kids felt the need to chant this at a high school game where everyone was American. Is nit not because the America we all grew up with is being threatened with extinction? Rather than integration we are being forced with toleration. Tolerate the illegal who hates our country but loves the free stuff. Tolerate the Muslim who may hate our way of life but enjoys the freedoms we hold dear and that protects them. The issue is that this wouldn‘t be a topic of discussion in the freakin’ federal government did what they are supposed to do and protected our borders and provided a safe and legal way for people to immigrate to this country. It is the leftist progressive policies that are tearing this country apart and pitting one group against another. It’s what they thrive on and how they maintain power. Make everyone a victim that only a powerful central government can protect or provide for. That is the real story behind the story, instead we spend time defending or criticizing a bunch of teenagers that don’t know much about much. Are youth are simply a product of our society. When we encourage segregation through “cultural sensitivity” bull-crap then we get segregated kids.
Report Post »marydito
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 4:10pmI agree also If you don’t like the USA GET OUT!!!!
Report Post »USA USA USA!!!!
booger71
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 4:15pmThe problem is that some Hispanics have been in this country longer than it has been the USA. Lots of bigots do not know that
Report Post »————————
Wow, I did not know there were 230 year old hispanics, what is their secret?
The Giver
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 4:26pmSuch anger Darla. Unable to even realize what happened there. Students used our USA pride chant as a weapon against students that don’t look like them on the outside. I, however, don’t think that the students should be punished. The more you bury the hate that is inside of folks, the more it grows. I’d rather know who thinks what and not be lulled into a sense that all is well. This is a result of years of progressive thought. You make excuses over and over for one group (illegal aliens) and expect that the oppressed groups (non-illegals) never voice their outrage at the abuses. All people of all colors look the same inside . Please realize also that some of those brown students might be here legally and are proud Americans. Some of their dads might be in the military. Remember what you were told … not to judge a book by its cover. Chanting USA when you defeat another American team that looks different than you do is not patriotic, but you think it is Darla. May God Bless the USA… we need it.
Report Post »BarackStalin
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 4:27pmcesium, your answer is simple,
I live near the border and many (not all, but many) of the mexican immigrants are not here to assimilate into our society. A very large number of illegal mexican immigrants feel that CA, AZ, NM, and TX rightfully belong to mexico and they are here as occupiers.
They want to fly foreign flags, speak foreign languages, and celebrate foreign holidays but then feign indignation when someone treats them like a foreigner.
If they want to maintain their allegiance to mexico, that’s fine. But you can’t expect the rest of us not to notice.
Report Post »robert
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 4:37pm“Once again, we‘re on pins and needles wondering what’s going to happen.”
Well, then, let me set your mind at ease so you won’t be on pins and needles wondering.
This nation is headed toward civil war for many reasons, one of the main ones being that multicultural nations always fail, with most of them erupting into armed conflicts.
Why would this one be any different, considering that every tribe here is trying to dominate the white power structure and take over?
I hope that helps. Here’s three other reasons…out of many.
“We have an aging white America.They are not making babies. They are dying. The explosion is in our population… I love it. They are ******** in their pants with fear. I love it.”, “We have got to eliminate the gringo, and what I mean by that is if the worst comes to the worst, we have got to kill him.”– Professor Jose Angel Gutierrez, University of Texas. (Still employed there.)
“California is going to be a Hispanic state, and anyone who doesn’t like it should leave. They should go back to Europe.” — Mario Obledo, co-founder and President of MALDEF
“Republica del Norte,” the Republic of the North, which would include the present U.S. states of California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, plus southern Colorado, along with several current Mexican states, is “an inevitability.“ The new ”Hispanic homeland“ should be brought into being ”by any means necessary.” — Charles Truxillo, professor, University of New Mexi
Report Post »JohnnyMidknight
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 4:42pm@ RabidPatriot
{Quote} So, a group of Caucasian Americans are trying to diminish fellow Hispanic Americans by insinuating that they are Mexicans.
I agree everything you stated save for this one part. It isn’t that the Caucasians thought were insinuating they were Mexican. It is they were insinuating the Hispanics as being non-American. IE they were judging legal status simply based on color of skin. However, seeing as this was Texas, most likely most Hispanic students are of Mexican descent. So, you may still be correct.
My big problem with the behavior displayed is that this gives the progressive more power with their attacks regarding profiling as a means of racism with verifying legal status. We wouldn’t want police targeting white citizens that live in the rural areas as militants and threats to the nation. So, why would we say it is acceptable to target any other race. Stick to the facts. If a person doesn’t speak clear English, has no license, has no registration for their vehicle, has no insurance… It is not racist to ask for a Visa or Green Card. It is reasonable doubt.
Situations like this just help muddy the waters.
Report Post »MIBUGNU2
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 4:47pmIf YOU don’t really know what Illegals think of AMERICA…
Check out this VIDEO…….ENJOY !!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42vJ7zhTEO4
Report Post »Orpheus75
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 4:52pmAmen!
Report Post »JohnnyMidknight
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 4:54pm@ watchtheotherhand
Yo make excellent points Except for: “These kids as with many are fed up with feeling like they are being overrun and paying for those who are here ILLEGALLY.”
However, a few things to consider:
1) Are these kids paying for anything of the Hispanic? As far as I knew, kids do not pay taxes. Even if they have a part time job, they are credited back most of their taxes due to their age.
2) At what age do teens understand political policy. They may think they know, but as all of us would admit, we know more now that we are older than when we were kids. This is in tandem with the quote: “Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.” — Winston Churchill
Most teens and college students are extremely liberal. Very rarely is it that they are conservative (though it happens). Either all these kids are sharing a prejudice from their parents, or have a common insensitivity to others around them. You may call this wuss-ification of America, but what is it was a group of white kids being berated by a group of blacks? Like:
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/report-black-mobs-attack-white-patrons-outside-wis-state-fair/
The only difference is violence, but the motivation was similar in association that race was indeed the motivation.
Report Post »SOUNDTHETRUMPET
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 4:55pmYou right. They need to get the hello out of out country and take the Communist pigs teachers and school administration with them.
Report Post »JohnnyMidknight
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 5:01pm@ watchtheotherhand
Sorry you not yo in previous post….
However, these kids are too immature to understand the impact they are having on others. Much like most American do not understand the impact they have on their neighbors by expecting food stamps, unemployment, welfare (EITC), healthcare, social security, etc. We are an extremely self centered nation. I am all for U-S-A! chants, but in the appropriate context (Olympics, World Championships versus other countries, success by the military, etc). A High School victory versus another American High School is not one of these areas. It should be assumed that the kids are American (though some if not many are not). Otherwise, are we to presume guilt first in the court of law in America? We must stand for the principles which define us and represent these in our actions – despite what our prejudices hold.
Note i am not discrediting that what you say is partly true. I just refuse to accept that all cases of this behavior follow one set of guidelines. Like the choices, motivations are always a case by case basis that is only able to be judge by the content of character in situations like this.
Report Post »000degrees
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 5:03pmCoach says the kids were insensitive…Were their parents illegals????? If yes then too bad…go home or quit breaking our laws.
Report Post »watchtheotherhand
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 5:37pmMy point is that through our policy of “toleration” and cultural “sensitivity” we are actually producing or fostering increased racism and segregation in our kids. Rather if we demanded legal immigration and assimilation then we would actually foster more cooperation and less division. I simply believe that to focus on whether the kids acted appropriately or not is the wrong question and the wrong place to focus our energy. I believe it would be aimed at the progressive policies that are tearing this country apart politically, socially, economically, and ethically.
Report Post »Bluebonnet
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 5:42pmDUMB DE DUMB DUMB! Isn’t this the USA? Weren’t both schools in the USA? Then what’s the problem? My guess is, some were not legal.
Report Post »What worries me, I’m actually agreeing with Rose-Ellen.
Nick84
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 5:52pmThe implication of chanting “USA! USA!” in this situation is that the students from the other school aren’t American, which they clearly are. It’s amazing that people defend this kind of behavior…
Report Post »paperpushermj
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 6:27pmSo what is now considered Racially insensitive lies with those who make the complaint instead of someone who is impartial making the charge if warranted..Is this what the country has come to? That by merely making the charge, that act, is all that is needed to validate the charge.
Report Post »Oh what a slippery slope we are being dragged down.
USAMEDIC3008
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WOLFENII
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 7:03pmTHANK YOU DARLA. I am so sick of being called a racist by everyone who doesn’t get their own way I want to scream. It is time we started standing up for ourselves and chase them back across the river where they came from…
Report Post »mauijonny
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 7:06pmIsn’t USA a city in Japan?
Report Post »4blackhorses
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 7:18pmReally!! I presume these kids are all U.S.A. citizens, I mean, afterall they are going to a school that provides them with U.S. of A. education. They’re “working hard” yet worried about sensitivity at the same time? If they are American citizens, U.S.A. means that they should join in the chant, not protest it! What a wasteful display of leadership shown by this bigotted coach!
Report Post »wakeus_com
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 7:58pmAmen!
USA! USA! USA!
Report Post »wvgirl
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 8:04pm@Zorro:
@Zorro states: “The students did mean this to be racial and it only painted them to be a bunch of ignorant hicks as every student in BOTH teams was American. ”
Ignorant hicks?? Well, well, well. Says Dr Pot to Dr Kettle. I am from Appalachia. I can’t tell you how many times I have heard this “h” word in my lifetime. I can tell you about discrimation. And I AM from the USA. Discrimination by any other name is still discrimination and still hate speech. It doesn’t hurt any less just because the elite media and Hollywood deems it OK to use such terminology against a class of people in this country. Only small minded people like you would use hate speech and slurs to call someone else out for using hate speech and slurs. Priceless.
That being said, I am still standing and refuse to fall into your PC craptrap. Try as you might, you cannot force Americans into your Marxist PC ideology. The severe actions of the school will only reinforce the divide and hatred between the races. I am glad the students are aware of what is going on in government and how their rights are being taken from them. This will only strengthen their resolve against unfair practices and against the Marxist PC speech police.
Report Post »BuddyBaker
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 9:04pmSo if they were chanting “Viva La Mexico” it would have been OK. Right? Would have been a cold day in Hell before I would have apologized.
Report Post »pavepaws
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 1:08amSo it’s not the “USA” for hispanic kids too? The other team was not from MEXICO, it was from another “allegedly” American high school.
Report Post »Brillodesol
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 2:30amSometimes is the intention of how we do things! Just like someone posted earlier… what had happened in Mexico, which is totally ugly… the same thing happened here. The intention of it … was ugly. I love USA!!!
Report Post »PlowMan
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 8:20amDarla, how do you know they aren’t already citizens? Anyway, I think both sides over reacted. As the super said it was done in poor taste and they should be called on it. But any action besides a stern talking to is just inappropriate. The other team should just shake their head and read the newspaper the next time they play Alamo and their players are introduced, then let it go. What’s done is done, get over it!
Report Post »Quandary
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 11:20amEdison High School shouldve played better if they didnt want to hear the chant.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 11:43amIf your Eye offends you, then Pluck it out; If your Ear offends you, then Cut it off!
Report Post »rafaelc1
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 11:46amIllegal aliens are illegal ; illegal aliens get the hell out of my land
Report Post »Cesium
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 12:15pm@ BarakStalin. I might be a Yankee but you’re gonna tell me that even though the opposing school is predominately hispanic, that no one on that basketball team was truly American? then having to hear the other team shout that against them? Who is more likely to “ball” as we say in the North East? Soccer playing mexicans or Americans who happen to have Mexican Roots? I’d like to see a picture of the other team then see every single one is a hispanic that is illegal. There are tons of illegal Mexicans in the Philly south Jersey area too. Unless something is different in Texas, I’ve never seen Mexicans Playing basketball or very good at it. They own like 10 soccer stores nearby me though.
Report Post »BarackStalin
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 4:39pmCesium,
I asserted no such thing. I am simply saying that people see their opposition openly waving mexican flags and shouting “viva la mexico” quite often. You can’t blame them for wanting to respond in kind.
I’m saying that these kids are responding to what they see around them every day all the time. They are not just evil bigots who want to oppress anyone who has brown skin.
Report Post »vic138
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 7:07pmIts better than the ‘Viva Mexico!!! chants and raising of the Mexico flag in soccer stadiums in the U.S.
Report Post »marhee9
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 9:28pmThis takes political correctness to a whole new level. Where does it end? Aren’t the hispanic basketball players Americans as well? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MihTix0uu-4
Report Post »bibles
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 9:58pmWhen immigrants come to America they are supposed to accept our traditions,language, and convert to american values. Not the other way around. I am sick and tired of foriegners wining and complaining about how they are treated here. If you don’t like the greatest system ever developed in history you can exercise one more great American right. THE RIGHT TO LEAVE!!!!!!
Report Post »Loki
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 11:02pmhow about the story about how the hispanic parents were screaming “alamo whites” first…..
and harrassed a handcapped kid on the alamo heights team…
where is ICE when you need them
Report Post »Brillodesol
Posted on March 9, 2012 at 12:11pmIt’s not about the chants.. it’s about the use of it. Get real!
Report Post »child of the King
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 5:22pmI would have to agree ..If you don’t like the chant then go back to your home country. What if it were the other team that won and were saying their home country, would there be such an out cry?Would those team members be suspended? I kind of doubt it.This political correctness is getting more and more out of control.
Report Post »B-Neil
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:37amYou are an American or your not an American. If your not American and you don’t like hearing the chant; USA USA USA then I highly recommend you go home and take you’re Bit-hen with you. GOD BLESS AMERICA and INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM
Report Post »FormerLib
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 11:30amPlease learn the difference between “your” and “you’re”. You’ll do much better in life, and it’ll give liberals less ammo against conservatives when hurling the “ignorance” tag.
Report Post »AmazingGrace8
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 1:53pm@formerlib
You are a snob. The person that did not use the proper words, has MORE HEART & SOUL than(then)than,then,than…ticking you off?lol…no really I will lighten-up and say ………
Report Post »MIBUGNU2
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 3:54pmTHINK, The American People are getting TIRED of all the illegal
Report Post »BS.. But Obamatard is afraid he will lose his latino base, along
with the Gimmies and Union Leeches…So he will probably SUE
the State of TEXAS along with ARIZONA,and ALABAMA…….
TooManyRedneckConservatives
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 8:11pmWhen you were in high school, and you played another school, you root for your school, not for your country! No one is against the USA, and this has nothing to do with that. These were spoiled white kids making fun of other kids who do not look like them. If a child is born in this country, he or she is automatically a citizen, and those are OUR laws in the United States. I have many friends from Texas, some are Mexican, but they are third or fourth generation. Just because you are of a hispanic ethnicity, does not make you illegal. Should we go back to calling people dumb mics and japs? Does anyone remember when Japs were the big “immigrant” group that was disliked, or the INNA signs in the 1800′s (INNA: Irish Need Not Apply). If you want to have the immigration debate, you used to just be able to show up on a boat at Ellis Island, and that’s it, you are a citizen. Unless you are of Native American decent, we are all immigrants. If we made it easier for SOME to become legal citizens, and then cracked down on those who come here and don’t get a job or pay taxes and remained illegally, that would solve the problem. Most people do want to come here and work, and if given the option, would happily pay taxes and pay for their healthcare. We make it very very difficult just to get a green card or become a citizen. That is why the Russians are willing to become mail order brides, just to get citizenship. This used to be the land of opportunity, but no more.
Report Post »goahead.makemyday
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 8:33amTOOMANYREDNECKCONSERVATIVES
Report Post »Did you miss the part where a good part of the kids doing the USA chant were Hispanic? Apparently you did because there are a lot of Hispanic families that are legal citizens, are naturalized and dislike illegal immigrants. This isn’t the White on Hispanic hate crime your trying to make it. Was it inappropriate sure it was, was it a complete racist event? Heck no,before making those comments please read and acknowledge EVERY SENTENCE.
Popp40
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:37amUmmm, so I guess if you are a sports bar during the upcoming Olympics and you start chanting “USA, USA, USA” will that be considered racist as well?
Report Post »RobMac68
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 11:33amWhat made this team feel the need to chant “USA, USA”? Are we to assume that all the children on the other team are “wetbacks” and that them and their families snuck into this country illeagally? Think of this, what if all the hispanic kids on the other team are Americans and that their families have been here a few generations, Now you have a team feeling the need to point out they are the real “USA” citizens and because the others are hispanic they will never really be a citizen. This is morally wrong and has nothing to do with political correctness. In the Olympics, the other teams are from other countries.
Report Post »Robert-CA
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 12:44pm@ RobMac68
Yep you’re right , how dare they chant USA in Mexico , where they think they are .
Report Post »Obama should apologize immediately .
Holder should sue the white racists .
ACLU should close down that white school .
RobMac68
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 1:26pmRobert, I know your sarcasim was pointed at me but it still made me laugh, thanks for keeping it mostly humorous. I only say “mostly” because alot of us, including me, feel that is the way things are going these days and that is not funny.
Report Post »Robert-CA
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 2:17pm@ RobMac68
Only the first line was pointed @ you .
Report Post »it‘s ok for our kids to chant USA USA USA because they’re still in USA & it’s still their Country , when on the other hand in a soccer match between USA & Mexico the mexican fans were chanting : Osama Osama Osama .
Brillodesol
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 2:41am@Joisey… your statement is over dramatic… is not about freedom of speech… is about trying to make others feel like they are not being part of USA… who tells you or anyone else that they are illegal? Why the need to chant USA… if it is not an international game… or is it? Come on people..!! Be realistic!
Report Post »goahead.makemyday
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 8:42amRob I think some of the kids may have been racially motivated to do the USA chant. But what kept the other team from turning it against them and taking it up too? They could have turned this around without having to get politics involved, and humiliate the racist kids at the same time. What makes me wonder is why didn’t any of the other team take up the chant? Did they not have enough time? Or maybe they consider themselves Mexican or another Latin Am citizen? My biggest beef is that the other team had a gigantic opportunity to take a bite out of racial tensions and instead made it worse.
Report Post »T-2
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:34ami wonder it’s considered insensitive if the kids were to shout “Alamo-Alamo-Alamo” instead of USA.
Report Post »texianna
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 11:08am176 years ago yesterday, our heroes fell at the Alamo. Now the New Left has dishonored their memory and sacrifice. God have mercy on us.
Report Post »Dismayed Veteran
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 11:10amI would have loved the players to chant “Alamo, Alamo”. It’s a legitimate chant while driving home the same point. That would be sweet retribution.
Report Post »vox_populi
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 1:42pmAh yes, the Alamo – where white immigrants to Mexico led a violent insurrection to steal vast amounts of land from the Mexicans. Glad you guys have no problem with immigrants leading violent revolution in their new countries in order to seize territory to do with as they please.
¡Viva la Reconquista! ¡Viva Aztlan!
Report Post »mr.goodvibe
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 11:31pmJust celebrated Independence Day here in Texas. Did you know many Hispanics fought to free Texas from Mexican control, you know those who love freedom, I guess Marxist LaRaza supporters are decendents of Mexican Army soldiers Por lo tanto su reconquista de tornillo
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:33amIt was “deemed”? racial? By who? the losers? or politicians?
When are we ever going to get off of this “perception” that everything “IS” race based? and grow up? I hate (yes, I said ‘hate’) to say it, but if we are ever going to get out of this cesspool of stupidity, some one has to show some spine and a little skin, sooner or later.
It’s a GAME! Attitude “IS” everything. Grow up.
Report Post »MidWestMom
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 11:19am“….an incident of racism…“ would be students chanting something like ”Whites Rule, Wetbacks Drool“ or ”Knock the Brown Down“ or ”Brown Can, White Can’t“ or ”Americans Rock, Mexes Suck” and vice versa of any of the above. Yep, I’ve heard all of them. And I don’t approve of or tolerate any of it. I wonder if students chanting “Mexico, Mexico, Mexico” would cause the same uproar?
Report Post »aragona
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:33amVoice your opinion. Athletic Director Gigarza@saisd.net
Report Post »JustinHale
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:54amROFL! I spamed him U.S.A. :DDDDDDDDD
Report Post »afishfarted
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 11:01amaragona, THanks for this link. YOU BETTER BELIEVE I’m using it !!!
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Robert-CA
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 1:07pmThank you ARAGONA .
Report Post »e mail send as a reminder that this is :
The United States of America .
randyg45
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 10:27amI think there’s a good chance he gets his junk sued off.
Report Post »Pray…
cookcountypatriot
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:32amstand in front of that school and chant usa usa usa until the news trucks show up..get those progressive white slaves out of that school and away fom those kids….usa usa usa
Report Post »MammalOne
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:31amI dont understand this. Were the kids on the other team not American citizens? Why would they be offended by the chant?
Report Post »Lumbar Spine
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:33amThe chant suggested the Hispanics from the other school were not real Americans. Come on…are you people really that thick?
Report Post »GJPinks
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:39amLumbar, are you indicating that Hispanic Students aren’t a part of the USA?
Report Post »USAF2003
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:39amBig F-U to all you “offended” by chanting USA! If that bothers you, get the F out of my country! USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA
Report Post »jordanesque
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:52amI am dissapointed by the GB crowd. It is obvious the “very few students” were making fun of fellow Americans for being Hispanic. How can all of the comments be so ignorant on a GB site?
Report Post »country_hick
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:53amLumbar Spine:
“are you people really that thick?”.
You believe that anyone that does not see racism in every statement or act is mentally handicapped? Sounds a little discriminatory and judgemental based on intelligence to me.
Report Post »zorro
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 11:04amYes Lumbar. Some of these folks are.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 11:21amLUMBAR SPINE, Please dislodge your head from your fourth point of contact. The USA is a nation made up of practically every ethnicity on the face of the planet, it in itself is not a RACE. Some fool here just wants something to whine about. RACISM, it’s great little cottage industry.
Report Post »vox_populi
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 1:48pmThis IS fundamentally about race though. The Alamo Heights kids were chanting “USA! USA!” to insinuate that the Hispanic kids were somehow not American, and that the mantle of “American” only belonged to the Caucasian team. You people look like idiots for only seeing the letters “USA” and then immediately spiraling into a jingoistic circle jerk.
Report Post »greatgrandma
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:29amU.S.A. citizens might as well lay down and die. We have no rights. No freedom of speech, no religion. Solution? Get rid of all illegal immigrants, they are costing this country over 300billion a year.Change the laws on anchor babies and give this country back to it’s natural born citizens.
Report Post »spirit of freedom
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 12:00pmAMEN!!! no one wants to look in that direction of that 800 pound gorilla sitting in the middle of the room. thank you for bringing it up! politicians take note!
Report Post »jamforpresident
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 11:02pmSo, give it back to the Native Americans, then? I mean, that really is the fairest thing to do.
Report Post »Worried Grammie
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:28amI’m fed up with the PC crap. Wonder how many of the Hispanics are here legally. Maybe they were brought here as children by illegal parents – still makes them illegal – not their fault, but illegal just the same. Close our borders and enforce our immigration laws!!! Of course, that will not happen with this corrupt administration, just as it didn’t happen under Bush. Welcome to an open border Amerika!!! Come on in – our taxpayers will support you, give you free health care, free education, free meals – even free cell phones!!! This 67-year old grammie is fed up!!
Report Post »greatgrandma
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:42amI agree. Now that these kids who were (dragged here) are now adults, they are asking for college loans and grants. Now that you ARE ADULTS how bout getting your citizenship 1st. Then we can talk about loans and grants for school. After all, taxpayers have paid for your K-12 education, plus free breakfast and lunches, and all other kinds of entitlements over the years.
Report Post »BonnieBlueFlag
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:56amIf this is “racist” and a “racial incident” then every Mexican flag, every “Puro” bumper sticker is a racist racial incident. If I get into an accident with a car that has a Mexican flag, “puro” or La Raza sticker on it, I want them drawn up on hate crime charges.
Report Post »Baikonur
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 1:28pm@hauschild
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 11:40am
‘Really, this type of thing is inevitable, when you allow a country to be overrun with illegal aliens, who tend not to assimilate into the culture.’
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Hispanic Americans do assimiliate into our culture.
They work hard, succeed, they are good and kind human beings, and they have as much right to be proud of where they originally came from as the Greeks, Italians, Jews and the Irish do.
Report Post »goahead.makemyday
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 8:57amBAIKONUR Some so assimilate but a good portion don”t. I live in Florida and travel to Central and South Florida a lot, you would think that at the most there would be signs in both Spanish and English. However, I see more and more signs in only Spanish. I see more and more people speaking only Spanish and refuse to speak English. I see them instead of going to Italian or an American Diner they go to a Mexican or Cuban restaurant. There have been times where I have gone into a Mexican Restaurant and only one out of ten people (including me) is speaking English. Is this assimilating? It‘s not while others are I’d say most, at least here in FL don’t.
Report Post »hauschild
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:28am“To be attacked about your ethnicity and being made to feel that you don’t belong in this country is terrible.”
If the shoe fits …
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:37amThe POTUS does that to me on a daily basis.
Report Post »country_hick
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:44amHauschild;
How they were attacked for their “ethnicity”? How where they “made” to feel they don’t belong?
Last I looked this IS the U.S.A. When did it become racist to chant your Country’s name? How is chanting your Country’s name making another citizen feel unwelcome?
Report Post »momrules
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:55am94.9% of Edison High School is Hispanic. How many of them do you think ARE Americans? Of course the chant USA,USA offends them.. …..Viva Mexico would suit them much better and I doubt the school authorities would have sanctioned them if they had chanted that. Viva Mexico would be explained away as just celebrating their culture.
Report Post »hauschild
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 11:40amReally, this type of thing is inevitable, when you allow a country to be overrun with illegal aliens, who tend not to assimilate into the culture. So, you end up with people that have absolutely no allegiance to the country they live in, and leftists reduced to wondering why.
Another unintended consequence of the Utopian-crazed left.
Report Post »Arminianism
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:28amBS! No way I or my kid would apologize and I’d lead the chant after each of the remaining games!
Report Post »KevRo65
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:27amSo what this is actually saying is…. Those kids don’t consider themselves American. Does that about sum it up?
Report Post »Still the country sleeps….
Baikonur
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:33am@KevRo65
Report Post »Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:27am
‘So what this is actually saying is…. Those kids don’t consider themselves American.’
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This is saying the exact opposite. It is the team chanting ‘USA’ that is making the other team feel un-American. This was a match between two teams from the USA, not an international match between two nations. Why would one of the teams chant USA? The implication is that the other team is not ‘USA.’ And yet they are, they are Hispanic, but they are as American as the Anglo-Americans.
qpwillie
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:56am@Baikonur
The other team could also have chanted “USA USA….”. I’m absolutely sure nobody would have had any objections.
When people can’t chant “USA USA….” in the USA, something has gone dreadfully wrong.
Report Post »patriotic pony
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 12:14pmMy mom used to tell, that Mexican-Americans were proud of their Mexican heritage and proud to be Americans. That Chicanos were ashamed of both. I can’t say this is always the case, but it sure does seem to be true. I wonder what label these kids and adults give themselves? BTW, in my family we are Mexican-Americans. We love the USA and are proud to be it’s citizens.
Report Post »PubliusPencilman
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:26amAnd so here come the parade of Blazers crying about PC this, PC that. As if being rude to people was a virtue.
Report Post »KevRo65
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:29amBeing Rude is living in this country, taking advantage of the benefits of freedom and NOT considering yourself an American. If you don‘t like the idea of American’s being proud to be American, head back south to go to school. You’re either with us or against us.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:32amWe really should be more like you on the left. You’re so polite and never antagonize those you disagree with.
Report Post »qpwillie
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:37amYou’re damn right, here we come!!! In case you haven’t noticed this IS indeed the USA. I wish you had the guts to come back and explain what you think is wrong with being proud of it.
Better still, if you don’t like it, GET THE HELL OUT OF MY COUNTRY!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »JDoke
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:46amWhy would kids start chanting “USA!” in a game that was played against other Americans? They must be insinuating that they don’t deem the opposing team as being real Americans. I do think it was incentive and I don’t think its overly PC to feel that way.
If I were on a mostly Hispanic team and the opposing crowd starting chanting that way I would feel slighted. Wouldn’t you?
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 11:03amJdoke, I’m an American, you can chant USA all day and all night and I promise you I will not be offended.
Report Post »qpwillie
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 11:14am@JDoke
I don’t know. Why do they play the National Anthem at football games?
Report Post »PubliusPencilman
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 11:18amGonzo, I’m not confident that you are getting the point here.
Report Post »copatriots
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 11:40am@ PUB
I’m not confident you understand the disgust American have citizens that our country is being infiltrated by ILLEGALS and the Federal government is doing NOTHING but encouraging more to come. Nowhere is it more obvious then a military town approx 200 miles from the border.
Report Post »PubliusPencilman
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 12:56pmCoPatriot, your point here is irrelevant because nothing in this story implied that any of these people were illegal immigrants. Are you suggesting that all people of hispanic descent should be considered as bad as illegal immigrants?
Report Post »copatriots
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 1:38pmHaving lived in San Antonio, you can be sure that not only at least one member of the team is illegal but a significant percentage of the school is. And I can assure you that American patriotism is not a priority in the majority of Hispanic homes in San Antonio.
Report Post »randyg45
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 10:13amIt may not be a virtue, but it is absolutely a right.
Report Post »Tyson
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:25amPolitical correct ignorance strikes again. Do people even think through the decisions they hand down, I double down on the Cry me a friggin Rio Bravo!
Report Post »J_Ruben_Kincaid
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:25amAny word on a pending apology from all the Mexican flags being waved all over the place.
Report Post »Baja
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:24amThe left won’t be happy until both team captains make up by french kissing.
Report Post »jamforpresident
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 11:11pmHahahaha that comment is very appreciated. Even from a liberal.
Report Post »piper60
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:23amWay to cave, guys. Gosh! I wonder what would happen to this world if just one man stood, and didn’t back down on his principals for the sake of being p.c.?
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:23amWhen the Mexican fans chanted Osama in the U.S. vs Mexico World Cup soccer match a couple years ago it hacked Americans off. This is the result. Don‘t dish it out if you ca’t take it.
Report Post »Joisey
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:23amAnother example of how we have lost Freedom of Speech in this country.
Report Post »Balthazor
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:22amThat noise you all may have heard was my head exploding.
Report Post »Creativethinker
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:22amYou have got to be kidding me! What is wrong with chanting USA USA when they live in the USA? How is this racist? Will they have to apologize next time for being white as well?
Report Post »AlansTigg
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:41amprobably
Report Post »AlansTigg
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:22amwow we’ve gone so far down that rabbit hole…..seriously, an American high school, after defeating antoher American high school chanted USA and that is not acceptable????? This is the freaking USA, despite what they would like us to think
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:19amNo guts… No glory!
Report Post »RightUnite
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:18amWhaaaaa! Cry me the friggin Rio Bravo river already!
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