Reconquista!!

Flag of Their Fathers



By John Fonte
FrontPageMagazine.com March 30, 2006

Relax, don’t worry, assimilation is working. The illegal immigrants just want to be patriotic citizens like everyone else. Given our compassion and a certain amount of time, they will join us in the New America. This is what our friends in the Open Border Right—Jack Kemp, Grover Norquist, the Chamber of Commerce, David Brooks, Fred Barnes, the Bush administration—have been telling us for years and are insisting is the right way now that the issue of immigration reaches critical mass.

But unfortunately for them, one picture betrays a thousand lies. The picture on Michelle Malkin’s blog yesterday tells it all. American high school students, the children of immigrants and, therefore, those who are supposed to represent our Brave New Future, turned an American flag upside down, put a Mexican flag triumphantly on top of it, and then ran that up the flagpole. Now it is time to have a national “conversation” (isn’t that the preferred term) about this photograph.

The picture and what it represents are not simply about “ethnic pride,” “dual loyalty,” or even allegiance to a foreign state—all of these things reprehensible enough—but rather an image that reveals a visceral distaste for American liberal democracy and a desire to cash out rather than buy into the American Dream.