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More of the story.
Parraz said racial tensions boiled over at the school this year around the Cinco de Mayo holiday.
"Our Hispanic, you know, kids will, you know, bring their Mexican flags and they'll display it, and then of course the kids would do the American flag situation, and it does cause kind of a racial tension which we don't really want," Parraz said. "We want them to appreciate the cultures."
Alicea's parents said he flies the flag from his bike as a tribute to veterans in his family.
If the kid only flew the flag on his bike around the Cinco de Mayo invented holiday (they don't even celebrate it in Mexico), then he was obviously intending it as a slap toward his Mexican classmates. He is offended by the Mexican flag and decided to offend them back.
Does he fly it year round? Does he fly it on St Paddy's Day?
Not that that would excuse the mental stumblefucks who told him to take it off his bike. It doesn't. But let's not deify the kid if he is just being a racialist culture warrior chain yanker.
This ordeal appears to have happened around November of 2010, so I don't think Cinco de Mayo had much to do with it.