At a high school basketball game in San Antonio, the student section of the winning team apparently started chanting USA, USA, USA as the game wound down. For the record, the winning school (Alamo Heights High) is primarily Caucasian and the losing school (Thomas Edison High) is primarily Hispanic. Predictably, officials from Thomas Edison were offended and perceived the chant as racist.
Here is the issue being discussed on Fox News program The Five.....
At around the 7:30 mark in the video, Juan Williams compares the incident to one that SACSTW covered here. In that incident, high school students in the People's Republic of California were deemed to have been racially offensive to Hispanic students. Their crime...wearing Tshirts depicting the American flag. Unbelievably, Juan Williams equated that with "wearing gang colors". Let me tell you folks, if red, white, and blue are the new gang colors, then patch me in.
The take-home message about the USA chant from those who took offense is that the chant was out of context because the game was not an "international" contest. The game was between two schools located in the USA, with the students on both sides being Americans.
Hmmm, somebody better tell Rosalba Aguillon. Ms. Aguillon is a student at Thomas Edison High, and was interviewed about the incident by Fox News. She explained that she was offended "coming from a school that has mainly Mexicans. I feel that was wrong, they shouldn't have chanted that".
In fact, it is much ado about nothing. Sound engineers in the SACSTW research lab have uncovered the truth behind the chanting at Alamo Heights High. The students were simply celebrating Tom Vilsack's recent announcement of 1.2 million in federal grant money made available for rural Texans. That's right, if you listen closely you can hear the students lusty cry of USDA, USDA, USDA! It brings a tear to my eye to see youngsters so supportive of bloated federal bureaucracies. Touching really.
Gotta run for now, I'm going to head down to the creek and catch a mess of snail darters for lunch. Tasty little critters, but you need a bucket full to make a decent meal.
The take-home message about the USA chant from those who took offense is that the chant was out of context because the game was not an "international" contest. The game was between two schools located in the USA, with the students on both sides being Americans.
Hmmm, somebody better tell Rosalba Aguillon. Ms. Aguillon is a student at Thomas Edison High, and was interviewed about the incident by Fox News. She explained that she was offended "coming from a school that has mainly Mexicans. I feel that was wrong, they shouldn't have chanted that".
In fact, it is much ado about nothing. Sound engineers in the SACSTW research lab have uncovered the truth behind the chanting at Alamo Heights High. The students were simply celebrating Tom Vilsack's recent announcement of 1.2 million in federal grant money made available for rural Texans. That's right, if you listen closely you can hear the students lusty cry of USDA, USDA, USDA! It brings a tear to my eye to see youngsters so supportive of bloated federal bureaucracies. Touching really.
Gotta run for now, I'm going to head down to the creek and catch a mess of snail darters for lunch. Tasty little critters, but you need a bucket full to make a decent meal.
No comments:
Post a Comment