[Updated with video embed of Lee Greenwood singing God Bless the USA below the fold]

“Offend” what other “cultures”? The anti-American subset culture? The refusal to assimilate immigrant subculture? Who cares? Certainly not I.

Another excuse offered by a DOE spokeswoman, is that the song is not age appropriate, while Justin Bieber’s “Baby” remains on the program. Yeah, that makes loads of sense. Providing cover…?

Greta Hawkins, principal of PS 90, the Edna Cohen School

(New York Post) –A controversial Coney Island principal has pulled the plug on patriotism.

Her refusal to let students sing “God Bless the USA” at their graduation has sparked fireworks at a school filled with proud immigrants.

Greta Hawkins, principal of PS 90, the Edna Cohen School, won’t allow kindergartners to belt out the beloved Lee Greenwood ballad, also known as “Proud to be an American,” at their moving-up ceremony.
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But Hawkins marched in on a recent rehearsal and ordered a CD playing the anthem to be shut off, staffers said.

She told the teachers to drop the song from the program.

“We don’t want to offend other cultures,” they quoted her as explaining.

The curt edict stunned both staff and parents.
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Department of Education spokeswoman Jessica Scaperotti gave The Post an explanation staffers said they never heard — that Hawkins found the lyrics “too grown up” for 5-year-olds.
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Scaperotti said the department supports the principal’s decision. “The lyrics are not age-appropriate,” she said.

But Justin Bieber’s flirty song about teen romance, “Baby,” was deemed a fine selection for the show. Hawkins had no problem with 5-year-olds singing lines such as, “Are we an item? Girl, quit playing.”

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If Principal Hawkins loathes American patriotism as much as I suspect she does, (she had tried to end the morning tradition of reciting the Pledge of  Allegiance and singing “America The Beautiful” but failed due to staff objections) her dishonesty is despicable. She like many of her cowardly kind, speak in code, choosing instead to spit on America sideways.

The DOE reprimanded her in 2010 for calling the school “racist”. Some staffers have called her a ‘tyrant’ and a ‘bully’. So, she is a real piece of work even without her un-American views.

Contact info:
P.S. 90 Edna Cohen School
Principal: Greta Hawkins
Address: 2840 WEST 12 STREET BROOKLYN, NY 11224
Phone: 718-266-8090
Fax: 718-266-7018

Community School District Office Phone: (718) 391-8313
Community District Superintendent: Isabel Dimola

God Bless the U.S.A.!

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• When Crazed ObamaBot Teachers Attack!

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If you find this to be shocking –you haven’t been paying attention. And it is high time that you wake the hell up, before it is to late.

The Obama palace guards of the media (in this case CUNY TV New York) practicing internet hygiene in order to protect Dear Leader Obama. Because, “the liberal media can’t resist defending Obama.”

Via Morgen at Verum Serum:

I posted a clip from Derrick Bell last week which included some pretty obvious Marxist undertones, but this…this is like a Marxism primer. CUNY TV in New York has curiously pulled a video clip of this down from their site, and YouTube, but c’mon, you know that’s not going to stop me. From 2007:

Derrick Bell Describes Marxist Foundation of Critical Race Theory

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H/T Jim Hoft who adds:

“Just wondering … Has there ever been a more radical president? And, has democrat-media complex ever worked so hard to hide the truth about a person’s past more than Barack Obama?”

I realize that Hoft was posing a rhetorical question, but the answer is a resounding –NO.

Remember, Bell was the Harvard professor who Harvard student Obama told a crowd to; “Open your hearts and your minds to the words of Professor Derrick Bell.”

The Derrick Bell, Charles Ogletree (Obama 2008 campaign advisor), Obama Supreme Court Judge nominee Elena Kagan connection:

Bell, via Kagan, on Critical Race Theory: The Constitution Is the Problem – Joel Pollack

In November 1985, the Harvard Law Review published an article by Derrick Bell that was a “classic” in the development of Critical Race Theory. The article was edited by then-student Elena Kagan, and was cited by Prof. Charles Ogletree in support of her nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court by President Barack Obama in 2010. The article makes clear that Critical Race Theory sees the U.S. Constitution as a form of “original sin”–a view later embraced by Obama as a state legislator, and reflected in his actions and appointments. The following is an excerpt from the non-fiction portion of the article; much of what follows is a fictional story that Bell intended as a parable of racial “fantasy.” (99 Harv. L. Rev. 4)

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Marxists and The United States Constitution –oil and water.

Fact:

Barack Obama [is] at the epicenter of an incestuous stew of American radical leftism. Not only are his connections significant, they practically define who he is. Taken together, they constitute a who’s who of the American radical left,

Conspicuous in their absence are any connections at all with any other group, moderate, or even mildly leftist. They are all radicals, firmly bedded in the anti-American, communist, socialist, radical leftist mesh.

All emphasis mine.

Previously: Doc Drop: University of Chicago Law School Prof.  Obama Made Writings Of Radical Racialist Derrick Bell –Required Reading

More Obama vetting:

Derrick A. Bell Visited the White House Twice in 2010

Bell: USA Must Admit We’re Permanently Racist ”Racism is permanent”

More Obama Tapes: Michelle Obama a Race Agitating Occupier?

Radical Cronyism? Sit-In Leader Nominated as Judge by Pres. Obama

Obama’s Beloved Law Professor: Derrick Bell

Obama’s Professor Derrick Bell Praises Farrakhan As “A Great Hero For The People”…

Original Occupier: Bell Blames ’1%’, ‘Wall Street’ ‘Wealth Disparity’ For ‘Racial Hostility’

Derrick Bell: “I Live to Harass White Folks” …Barack Obama: “White Folks Greed Runs a World in Need”

Explosive: Obama’s Mentor Derrick Bell on ‘Jewish Neoconservative Racists’

Above links via Nice Deb’s “Barack Obama:The First American President To Embrace Critical Race Theory”

Also see:

Obama: Founding Fathers “Designed a system that makes it more difficult to bring about change than I would like”

‘Virtual Obama Monarchy?’ Obama Spokesmouth Carney: ‘Basically Speaking…Yes’

Mark Levin “Constitutional Crisis” “The Road To Dictatorship Paved With Poisonous Language Like” Obama’s [Audio]

Gaius Lawrenitis Negris links at Magic Negro Watch…thaks!

Even crazier, Hispanic students are among those punished.

I guarantee that if the predominantly Hispanic high school basketball team would have won the game, and their fans had chanted ‘Viva Mexico’, school officials would have remained silent, and the media would have ignored it.

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“Racial incident mars high school game”

(KSAT) –SAN ANTONIO -A local school district is apologizing after an apparent incident of racism at a boys high school basketball game this past weekend.

When the final whistle blew Saturday, Alamo Heights celebrated a convincing victory over San Antonio Edison.
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“USA, USA, USA,” they chanted.
San Antonio Independent School District officials took the chant as a racial insult to a school with all minority players from a school with mostly white ones.

Alamo Heights Superintendent Dr. Kevin Brown also apologized for the chant.

“We just hope that people know that that’s not who we are and we’re not going to let it happen again,” Brown said.

Alamo Heights Superintendent Dr. Kevin Brown wants to make it clear that showing pride in the USA is something that one should apologize for. Not in my book.

Alamo Heights has apologized to SAISD and the students identified will also have to apologize and have been banned from the state title games.

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Seriously? Banned from title games because kids receiving an education IN THE USA are offended by USA???

The offensive pot calling the kettle black:

Comments on KSAT’s Facebook page by former Alamo Heights student James Russell:

Alamo Heights Basketball Game
I understand that the time of chanting “USA USA USA” was some what bad timing, but it wasn’t towards Edison and the hispanic race. We have chanted that at multiple games against all sorts of different races. We did not mean to be racist, if we were we could have said other things. I also don’t appreciate KSAT and other news stations for only showing half the story. Before you start calling Alamo Heights racist and other crude and hurtful names look at what Edison chanted during the game. Yes i am implying for you to rewind your film an watch it and listen to the whole game. I am a former student at Alamo Heights and this has taken all the attention away from are basketball team who is going to STATE. So more attention on them going to state please, i also believe that this would have never been on the news if Edison would have won.
ALAMO HEIGHTS “LOB CITY” WHATS GOOD ON TO STATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Obviously because Edison was taking it the wrong way,
its obvious USA offended Edison, they failed to mention how they were rude shouting out during the playing of our countries national anthem.

!) we were called Alamo whites. [A racist twist on ''Alamo Heights' -VH]
2) made fun of Eddie a disabled kid and shouted rude things at him
3) had a sign that said alamo heights suck my….. ya inappropriate

Some of the people that are commenting on this subject don’t attend Alamo heights or even live here an they are saying nothing is wrong and it all goes down to how you look at it I would love to go pull out some old film after almost every game where we chant USA USA
Or go spurs go
It’s not to offend people it’s to be proud of what we are living for.

Patriotism is offensive to the discriminatory, racist, potty mouth, anti-American students of Edison High and their progressive enablers within the school district. But since the offended happen to be Hispanic it is racist.

And here is a comment left on KSAT’s Facebook page from a student currently attending Alamo Heights, backing up the above claims.

Sage Devereaux-aroo Novosad-Talley
I sent this to your reporter who reported about Alamo Heights being “racist”

Hello,

I am a current student at Alamo Heights, and I would like to discuss the story on how Alamo Heights chanting “USA” is racist. If you haven’t already checked your video comments on the KSAT12 page, most comments, if not mainly, said that this is not racist at all. Yes, our school consists of mainly of whites, but… that does not make us racist. What is wrong with being proud of our country? We have shouted it out at other games against WHITE teams and at pep rallies, and it is in not being racist towards anyone. I am white and my best friend happens to be a Hispanic. We are all Americans are we not? We should not be calling the whole community of Alamo Heights racist, when it was only three students starting the chant, and one of them being Hispanic. You also forgot to explain in your news story that Edison chanted Alamo Whites. It seems odd that you only told half of the story of what actually happened. Edison also made a rude remark about one of our paralyzed students, Eddie Moreno, calling him “retarded.” We are not the only ones guilty in the matter of racism. I think you need to air another story showing the other half of the story. It would be much appreciated by the Alamo Heights community and school system.

Sincerely,
Sage Novosad-Talley

Edit: Paralyzed student Eddie Moreno is a former basketball player for Alamo Heights. He was “shot in the face in a road rage incident, paralyzing him from the neck down.”

BTW Demographically speaking, ‘Hispanic’ students enrolled in the SAISD are the ‘majority’ while whites are the ‘minorities’ by a WIDE margin.

Update: Further confirmation on Hispanic students participating in the “racist” chant. According to this San Antonio Express article some of the students who were chanting “USA USA” were Hispanic.

Alamo Heights ISD Superintendent Kevin Brown said he has apologized to SAISD officials. Heights students who were involved in the chanting will not be allowed to attend the Mules’ Class 4A state semifinal game against Dallas Kimball on Thursday.

Brown said some of the Heights students who took part and were disciplined are Hispanic.

“Unfortunately, after the game, we had a handful of students who made a bad decision and we’re very sorry it happened,” Brown said. “They made a mistake and we’re going to use this as a learning experience.”

Yes kids, please learn from your mistake. It was a bad decision to ever think that you should be allowed to display patriotism in an American high school.

Edit: Also from the San Antonio Express: Edison players were already in the locker room so they  did not even hear the chant, which lasted ONLY around 5 seconds.

The chant lasted for about five seconds. Alamo Heights head coach Andrew Brewer silenced the students as soon as he heard them.
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Edison coach Art Vela said his players were already in the locker room and did not hear the chant, which took place about three minutes after the game ended.

Update 2: KSAT finally gets around to reporting on Edison fans/students calling Alamo Heights students “Alamo Whites”.

Now, numerous reports have surfaced that Edison fans were referring to Alamo Heights as “Alamo Whites.”

Those people say that is racist as well.

The controversy also has people asking questions about why saying “USA” could be considered racist.

Ashley Mergele is an Alamo Heights junior who was at the game.

“People call us ‘Alamo Whites’ all the time, but I think in this situation it made a bigger deal,” Mergele said.

But nowhere in the articles title or the article itself does KSAT journo Brian Mylar personally state that “Alamo Whites” is racist as he did with the “USA USA” chant article. He only notes that some people say it “is racist as well”.

Both titles:

“Racial incident mars high school game”

“Racism complaint generates nationwide controversy” [Re: USA USA chant NOT "Alamo Whites"--VH]

Mylar quotes from first article:

“An apparent incident of racism”

“Both districts are now just trying to move past this disturbing incident.”

Only Mylar quote mentioning racism of “Alamo Whites” in the second article:

“Those people say that is racist as well.”

Conclusion: KSAT’s Brian Mylar is a race baiting, illegal alien pandering journalist.

Edison High School’s team name is the “Golden Bears”. Since they think it is okay to call Alamo Heights students  “Alamo Whites” would they be okay with being called the “Brown Bears”?

I think not. Tolerance and racial sensitivity is a one way street.

If chant of  “USA, USA, USA” offends you –LEAVE.

Update:  Chanting “USA USA” At High School Game Has “Racial Overtones [AGAIN] (February 13 2013)

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Video: Shocking Excerpts Read at Tucson School Board Meeting From A Book In The Ethic Studies Curriculum [Updated]

President Ronald Reagan understood. God rest his soul, he was a ‘traditional American’. Obama and his anti-American progressive cabal are not –by a long shot. One simply can not loathe America and all that she stands for and be a ‘traditional American’. Traditional Americans who value liberty, are the backbone of this great country. Always have been. Progressives headed by wannabe despot Obama, want to literally rip our freedoms from us and cut America off at the knees.

“Those Voices Don’t Speak for the Rest of Us”

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Via @AlAlekhine

Is it any wonder that in these polling results released yesterday by Gallup, Ronald Reagan came out on top? Note the net rating percentage points of Reagan versus Obama. Quite the wide margin wouldn’t you say? In fact, take careful note of Obama’s numbers across the board. Far from stellar.

Come November 2012, vote the bastard –OUT. I don’t care who eventually wins the GOP nomination –get OUT and VOTE. Your vote will be AGAINST Obama, not for the candidate of your choice. That is the –POINT. Sure, they each have their negatives. BUT the alternative, a second term for O (a FRIGHTENING thought), should be more than enough to motivate you.

Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do to save your country.

Vote as if the American way of  life depends on it –because it DOES.

Update: Bonus Reagan video.

Reagan responds to Obama and his supporters

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Also see:

Obama: Founding Fathers “Designed a system that makes it more difficult to bring about change than I would like” (February 2012)

Mark Levin “Constitutional Crisis” “The Road To Dictatorship Paved With Poisonous Language Like” Obama’s [Audio]

Reminder: Michelle Obama 2008: “We’re going to have to change our traditions, our history” [Video]

Obama Speech Osawatomie, Kansas: ‘Capitalism and Liberty Don’t Work’, Never Have (Dec. 2011)

 Obamanisims of Fundamental Transformation

Obama Nation Fundamental Transformation

Barack Obama claims our Constitution reflected the fundamental flaw of this country that continues to this day…

As far as I know, Occupy Oakland’s FTP march last night was for the most part uneventful.

When the majority of Occupy Oakland behaves, there is no repercussion from the OPD. Amazing how that works.

Although Vivian Ho of the San Francisco Chronicle reported on a few incidents via Twitter. This time they turned their pent up anger towards the media. Hey, I thought they are all about the 1st amendment. Heh.

This bottle of urine was thrown at a KTVU news truck. Animals.

Protesters threw a bottle of urine at the KTVU truck. We know it’s pee bc @kevinchron sniffed it #occupyoakland #ftp

Above and beyond dude, above and beyond.

Next up, a perennial left-wing extremist favorite; flag burning. An American flag set on fire, left to smolder in the street.

Zachary Runningwolf sets fire to an American flag, leaves it smoldering in Broadway #occupyoakland #ftp

Another photo of the burning flag.

Noah Berger -AP

And here is a photo of the flag burner Zachary Running Wolf caught in the act. Anti-American scum.

BECK DIEFENBACH/REUTERS

Is that a ladies straw purse??

Perspective: American flags representing freedom and liberty, are for burning and flags of mass murdering Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara are for waving!

Yeah, Che was a 'people' person overflowing with the milk of human kindness... - BECK DIEFENBACH/REUTERS

There is also a report of a wooden board thrown at a KPIX news truck.

The OccuPunks just can’t help themselves.

FTP is the acronym for Occupy Oakland’s weekly F*ck the Police marches.

BECK DIEFENBACH/REUTERS

Here is a short video taken last night of the OO rabble rousing malcontents chanting “No Justice. No Peace. F*ck the Police”, sans the asterisk.

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Provocative in and of itself. Though free speech is free speech, is free speech.

But keep in mind that Occupy Oakland has NEVER  been given a permit to protest, they openly mock the estimated $50,000 per week cost to the city (taxpayers) to babysit their continuous radical agitating and all past ‘protests’ have resulted in violence, chaos, trespassing, and vandalism of both public and private property. Domestic terrorists, plain and simple. See related posts below and/or browse through archived posts here.

Replacement of the stolen and subsequently burned City Hall flag by Occupy Oakland during last weeks riot, and a group of concerned citizens are planing a counter-protest. I bet they get a permit beforehand. Now that’s what I’m talking about!

(KTVU) –Phil Tagami, a real estate developer whose office is at Frank Ogawa Plaza across from City Hall, presented the city with a flag Monday to replace the one that was stolen and burned during last weekend’s protest.

Tagami said the city has to find a way to stop the ongoing violence.

“It’s marauding bands of people roaming through downtown Oakland causing property destruction and general mayhem,” he said. “If that’s not a form of terrorism, then I don’t know what is.”

On Monday, Nancy Sidebotham and other concerned Oakland residents plan to hold a counter-protest to support the city and the police.

“This is our city, and we’re not going to let it deteriorate,” she said.

On a Super Bowl Sunday side note. I’m picking The Giants over the Pats. For the mere fact that Patriots QB Tom Brady makes me ill.

Edit: Yessssssss! Congratulations N Y Giants!

**Although not noted, post has been updated throughout -VH**

John at Verum Serum links…thanks!

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CHARLOTTE, NC (WBTV) – Four protesters, including the spokesman of Occupy Charlotte, were charged after setting fire to two American flags early Friday near the Occupy camp in Center City, police said.
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WBTV has learned that one of the men is the media spokesman for the Occupy group and has been the contact person listed on press releases from Occupy Charlotte.
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Police swarmed the area, and detained the men while firefighters were called in to knock down the flames. About $30 worth of damage was caused to landscaping at the site.

It was only after the fire was out did officials figure out what was burning, the American flag.

Occupy Charlotte American flag burning punks.

Police said the men claimed they were burning the flag in protest.  Burning the flag is not illegal, however doing it outside of a fire pit, and within ten feet from flammable tents poses a problem.

Officers arrested 20-year-old Stephen Christopher Morris of Matthews, 28-year-old Jason Bargert of Charlotte, 23-year-old Michael Alan Behrle of Matthews and 19-year-old Alex Macon Tyler of Fort Mill.

Bargert is the media spokesman for Occupy Charlotte and in earlier media reports said he had been with the group since “the beginning.”

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Sure it is legal to burn an American flag, but those that do are anti-American scum. Acts of anti-Americanism do not represent the ’99%’. The OWS mobs are delusional in thinking so.