Family flying Mexican flag brings out the racists in full force

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forget the story just look at the racists comments

Woman Irate That Ontario Family Is Flying Mexican Flag In Their Front Yard
September 25, 2014 5:37 PM


[link:http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/video?autoStart=true&topVideoCatNo=default&clipId=10625738|


ONTARIO (CBSLA.com) — A controversy involving the Mexican flag has one family in Ontario wondering why one woman made it her business, while the people she did business with, in turn, asked her to leave.
Tressy Capps, a local political activist in the Inland Empire, was irked by seeing the Mexican flag flying in a front yard and confronted the homeowner on a video she shot on a smartphone and posted to YouTube.
“Hi. Is that a Mexican flag in your front yard?” Capps is heard asking the homeowner, who is behind a window.
“You know we live in America right? This is the United States. So, why are you flying a Mexican flag in your front yard?” she is heard asking the woman.
KCAL9’s Tom Wait spoke to Capps and the homeowner she confronted. The woman behind the window doesn’t speak English and didn’t understand the questions Capps asked.
Capps confronts her on video a third time.
“This is America. Maybe you can move to Mexico if you want to fly your Mexican flag. Does that make sense?” Capps says.
Wait spoke to the homeowner’s husband, Sigifredo Banuelos, who didn’t understand why Capps was making their flag her concern.
“I don’t think it’s offensive because this flag doesn’t do anything,” he said.
Banuelos says he and his family never meant to offend anyone. They were just celebrating their Mexican heritage. He says the family keeps both a U.S. and Mexican flag flying.
“We decide. We have one American and one Mexican,” he said.
Capps said she was offended by the Mexican flag.
“I was offended. I was pretty upset. But I couldn’t understand her,” Capps said.
Capps says she’s received threats since the video was posted and went viral. Capps insists she’s not a racist, just a patriot.
“I don’t understand what all the hatred is about. Why everyone is labeling me these names. Racist? I don’t understand why everyone is so angry.”
Capps says the fallout from the video caused her to lose her independent contact position with a real estate company.
As for the city, they say the flag is not in violation of any city, state or federal ordinances.

TO the DU censors: These are not my comments nor meant to inflame. I was surprised to see such language on cbs story.
I am including comments since they are part of the underlying story.

comments
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Ethnically cleanse squat monsters from Tijuana to the Guatemala border.
SI SE PUEDE!

Tell it Like it Is Omegaman • 7 minutes ago
Burn the taco n1663r flags.

Tell it Like it Is West Covina • 22 minutes ago
Mexicrement needs to be eliminated.
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[Liberal_in_LA]

1. I am not surprised to see "such language" on an internet comment site. racists flock to post

anonymously.

[Cleita]

2. Wow! My SIL flies the Irish flag alongside the USA stars and stripes. His

wife is Irish. No one complains.

[gratuitous]

4. Well, we can be sure it isn't racism

Because we're all post-racial and everything here in the U.S. Besides, it's never, ever about race. You know?

[Cleita]

5. Of course it isn't.

We all know that if my SIL flew a flag of Mexico no one would say anything.

[Louisiana1976]

3. This isn't the first time a racist has tried to hide behind the term "patriot." I saw this in the

news from Murrieta when the assholes protesting the arrival of Central American kids called themselves patriots and now we're seeing this racist woman in Ontario call herself a patriot. Oh, ad the racist comments at the end of the article are disgusting, but as Poster #1 said, they feel they can say anything in the anonymity of the Internet.

[Cali_Democrat]

6. The first comment says it all

No doubt many right wingers want to ethnically cleanse the US and kill minorities.

Minorities have to be extra vigilant. The Jews in Europe didn't stand a chance once Hitler came to power.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

7. Will I have to destroy the shamrocks growing on my property? Or, just rename them Patriot Posies?

[TorchTheWitch]

8. hell, my next door neighbor flies a pirate flag from the top of their cabana

It's a huge skull and bones flag though we don't have much breeze, so it usually just looks like a mostly black hunk of material. I thought it was funny once I realized what it was.

One of my other neighbors several streets away always flies an Italian flag with the US flag on the pole in their front yard. Fine by me. I guess they're Italian and proud of their heritage.

I've seen other people flying flags of other nations in their yards or a Harley Davidson flag or some other non-national flag. Whoopdie doo. The only one that bothers me to see displayed is the Confederate flag or whatever it is that most people believe is the Confederate flag but is actually a battle flag or something like that from the Civil War.

[GReedDiamond]

9. Here is the YouTube video posted by this freak...

She added this update: "They put up an American flag in compliance with the law. A peaceful and pleasant exchange resulted in a positive result. God Bless America and the American Flag."

As if flying the flag of Mexico was not "in compliance with the law."

"Pleasant exchange"?! She sounds and acts like a stupid fucking racist piece of shit.

At least she lost her job for being the asshole that she apparently is.

Now she may devote all of her time to being an insane, ignorant teabagger.

[Warren DeMontague]

30. Someone needs a primer on "the law"- specifically, the US Constitution, Amendment #1.

Not understanding that strikes me as far more unpatriotic than flying a Mexican flag.

[TorchTheWitch]

38. Ha! did you notice she said "oh, you don't speak Spanish?"

Don't speak SPANISH??? Stupid racist git. Good on her ex-employer for sacking her for this shit.

[Harmony Blue]

10. Flying a flag in the home country that is not your is considered

disrespectful and trying to provoke a response.

[Cleita]

11. By whom?

[JI7]

12. not to me

[nomorenomore08]

13. You might want to edit that post for grammar. It's a little incoherent.

[Iggo]

14. Not by me, it ain't.

[gollygee]

17. Oh bullshit bullshit bullshit

I see so many Irish flags flying at people's houses it's crazy. No one bats an eyelash. Do people not fly Irish flags in other places?

Many people in the US have always been proud of where they live AND where they come from. Here in West Michigan, it's often the Dutch who have Dutch things everywhere (though not the flag so much, but maybe because it isn't that easily identifiable - people might think it was French.)

This is seen as normal the more white you are, and threatening, or "disrespectful," the less white you are.

[Warren DeMontague]

34. Or the pickup trucks with the confederate flags

[Behind the Aegis]

35. There's another flag that would get the same type of reception here.

[Warren DeMontague]

37. Oh boy, the mind boggles

Its bad enough, all the people flying the INVISIBLE ones- WE KNOW WHERE YOUR ALLEGIANCES LIE!!!

[uponit7771]

18. you forgot the "...if your brown skinned..." part seeing on St Patricks day... ah fuck it, why bothe

....you people know better

[Live and Learn]

24. All flags are stupid in my opinion. nt

[uppityperson]

25. wtf? What about my pirate flag?

[pinboy3niner]

28. That one's arrr-right. nt

[Warren DeMontague]

29. I used to fly one of these flags:

It's their house and their flagpole, they can fly any damn flag they want. People need to get a grip.

If you want patriotism, be patriotic about the 1st Amendment.

[TorchTheWitch]

39. baloney

Just pure baloney.

[delta17]

15. I saw lots of Irish and Italian flags growing up in the NE.

In the Midwest, I've seen plenty of Swedish or German cultural heritage. People need to calm down.

[AverageJoe90]

16. Tressy Capps may be ignorant(racist? debatable.), but it's some of the comments that REALLY.........

Take the cake here.

KoT > West Covina • 36 minutes ago

Well, well ... tonight an "alleged" person of color trolls the internet created by white people. Not to worry, tortilla trash ... you're no Hispanic (like me) and only represent the left-wing purveyors of the likes of the KKK, opposed woman's suffrage, enacted the Black Codes, violently fought against EVERY GOP written civil rights legislation, and you're probably a card carrying OWSer with an iPhone (oh, the hypocrisy)!

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lupe > MindBender4Liberty • an hour ago

So are the fat pig mexicans. Shoot them all. They're all drunken losers worthless pigs. White trash irish and the brown poop smelling pigs mexicans.

So yeah, no doubt what could have been done was much worse. But I'm glad Coldwell took a stand for diversity, and I'd hope that maybe this lady might rethink some of her prejudices. But that might be a long shot.

[taught_me_patience]

19. I see no problem if he's flying both American and Mexican flags

I'd be offended if it were only a Mexican flag.

[Iggo]

20. I see no problem either way.

[Warren DeMontague]

33. You can be offended all you want, sure.

But if you march onto private property and threaten the homeowner with fines and arrest, demanding it be taken down, you're in the wrong.

[freshwest]

21. This is vile and why I don't read newspaper comments. They're worse than the KKK! Bet if I flew an

Irish flag and the Union Jack, they wouldn't object. And the couple were flying the American flag, too. I've given up talking to these goons. They make me sick. Problem is, they are all armed with itchy fingers.

To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.

~ Thomas Paine, The American Crisis

[gollygee]

22. Oh yeah, the Union Jack!

That's another one I see all the time. Also, in some parts of Michigan, you see the Candian flag everywhere. Nobody complains. In fact, people seem to think it's cute.

[freshwest]

23. Canadians invaded us! How can the Hatriots ignore this clear and present danger to our sovereignty?

Of course, they're not racist!

[pinboy3niner]

36. I remember when Canadian VN vets got a Welcome Home parade--in Pontiac, MI. nt

[uppityperson]

26. I'm offended by a racist busybody intruding on someone to tell them they can't fly whatever they

want. She disabled comments on her youtube video, coward that she is. And yes, she is a racist.

[Raine]

27. I would bet that if it was just about any flag but a Mexican one neither her or anyone

else would say a damn thing. No one can convince me this is anything but pure racism!

[TorchTheWitch]

31. something tells me she wouldn't care if it was a Confederate flag either

Or and Irish flag, or Italian flag, etc. Yep, it's just racism.

[Warren DeMontague]

32. She has apparently since learned that no, you can't have people arrested for flying the wrong flag

On their own property.

And she has apparently discovered that if you have a job that involves working with members if the community, your employer may not take kindly to you attacking and alienating members of that community for no good reason.

http://www.housingwire.com/articles/31505-real-estate-contact-agent-loses-it-over-mexican-flag

[onethatcares]

40. I wonder what she teaches her kids

How do you teach kids to hate?

[Skittles]

41. my mum loved her Union Jack

I bet this gal would have had no problem with that