Quote Originally Posted by miles View Post
No, no, no. I misread the question first time out CFH!

If the Mexican kids could not have controlled their anger then they should go to anger management schools or find alternative ways to live. I have no sympathy with a man that cannot control his violent tendencies. If I need to kill because a Korean wears the "taeguki" then that is pathetic. The same thing here, these kids are ruling in numbers and they need to pick on the idiots that choose to stand out? Sorry, I wouldn't have sympathy for that.
Normally I would agree, but in this instance they are being deliberately provoked about an extremely contentious issue that is at the fore of American domestic politics at the time. The is a lot of anger, from all sides, about American immigration policy and illegal immigration and I imagine confrontations and violence could have easily been the result of these kids wearing those shirts, which is why I side with the Principal and why I wouldn't solely blame the Hispanics if things got out of hand. It's a poor, hyperbolic analogy, but if I walked through Watts wearing a white-power t-shirt, I would be the person responsible for the beating given to me not those who did it, regardless of whether or not it was my right to wear such a shift. If the Principal felt that those shirts could cause a lot of trouble, he had every right to do what he did. He is charged with protecting the students in his charge (all of them) and for ensuring a peaceful learning environment.