Little Clute, Texas, burst onto the national stage this week when Velasco Elementary principle, Sam Williams had hand-held Mexican flags distributed to the students and then requested that they stand while adult “volunteers” led them in the Pledge of Allegiance to the Mexican flag. Williams was genuinely taken aback by the sudden, and mostly angry, attention his little exercise in “diversity” generated.
The people who are out of touch with reality in this saga are not Williams and his NEA colleagues but the millions of Americans who become outraged by stories like this. The truth is that our schools have become a place where our children are indoctrinated by the teaching establishment with secularist, leftist anti-Americanism. These are not isolated instances but the norm, and not just in our high schools and colleges, but our grade schools as well. That’s why Williams was caught off-guard – he was just doing what they do in American schools.
Take for example, the case of Kentucky teacher Dan Holden. Just a few weeks ago, Holden burned American flags in two seperate classes for the supposed purpose of getting his students to think about freedom of speech. To Americans who love their country and respect their flag, burning the American flag is offensive and wrong. If Holden’s sole purpose was to get his students to think about free speech, why didn’t he show cartoon drawings of the Prophet Mohammed, or tell a Hillary Clinton joke (there’s quite a few good ones going around), or accuse the ACLU of being a communist organization. The reason is simple – those things are offensive to the left while burning the American flag is not.
Since when does offensive count as un-American? If anything, flag burning SUPPORTS our country. The U.S. has always been a leader in supporting natural rights, and rights are usless if not excersized.
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Read what I said. Saying that flag burning supports our country is like saying that spray painting swastikas supports our country.
In addition, you are wrong about “natural rights.” The U.S. supports the rights enumerated in the Constitution. What are natural rights anyway? Don’t bother answering that one because there is no answer. It’s like the bogus right to choose. It doesn’t withstand the test of intelligent scrutiny.