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Kicked off bus for saying Obama's name
Two junior high school students in Mississippi were kicked off of their school bus for saying Barack Obama's name. Other students were threatened with suspension.
http://www.wapt.com/video/17928161/index.html
In my opinion this should be national news. Those kids (and their community) should see the entire country react to these racist fools, same as if they showed up for work in Klan linen.
http://www.wapt.com/video/17928161/index.html
In my opinion this should be national news. Those kids (and their community) should see the entire country react to these racist fools, same as if they showed up for work in Klan linen.
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Maybe you should write to Rachel Maddow or Keith Olberman and make sure that they know about this.
November 9, 2008 1:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
Is this for real??
November 9, 2008 1:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
Among Republicans, I've found the icy post-election water-cooler silence to be creepily deafening.
November 9, 2008 2:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
America the beautiful.
November 9, 2008 2:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hey - America elected Barack Obama president.
You're talking about one angry bitter person. Jeez.
November 9, 2008 5:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
Had it only been one I would not have been so alarmed. But it was two, at the same school. Extrapolate that statistically.
November 9, 2008 6:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm perhaps a bit too relaxed this Sunday afternoon--it should have been "Extrapolate that."
November 9, 2008 6:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
calm down, this does not need to be national news, the locals already covered it and the superintendent got involved to resolve it. Case closed.
November 9, 2008 5:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
To clarify, this doesn't shock me. I come from that part of the country. I can't go to a family gathering without hearing the n word. Often. And not (usually) used in a hateful context.
The more I think about this, the more I realize how complex my feelings are. I think it's about wanting more awareness--I want my blue state peeps to understand there are still parts of the country where black laborers are referred to as 'boys'. I want the folks in that part of the country to see how the rest of us feel about that.
I don't know. Maybe I just want those kids to see some change.
On a more practical level I'd like anyone even remotely tempted to pull something like this to fear national public humiliation.
November 9, 2008 7:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
Case closed? As much as you may want to believe that we're now suddenly living in a so-called "post-racial" world, I've got news for you: we're not. Racially-motivated intimidation and violence against Obama supporters isn't going to stop any time soon. Just ask the disgruntled McCain-Palin supporters who've been fueling a dramatic increase in the national sales of assault weapons and ammo during the past few weeks. They're not buying those hollow-points to take out Bambi either. The students who were mistreated deserve our respect and public support, not excuses for maintaining the damn status quo. Thanks, fuzz.
November 9, 2008 9:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
46% of the country voted for McCain-Palin. That's over 50 millions people. They are not all out buying assault rifles. A few idiots who obviously concerned that Obama is going to take away the second amendment decided they want to grandfather some guns in ahead of something that will never happen. They aren't manning up for Civil War Part Deux.
This insistence of some democrats to insist that the entire republican party is a bunch of racists, hillbillies with assault rifles and chew-stretched lips is going to ensure Barack's very ambitious agenda is never reached. That caricature is no more true than all democrats are bleeding-hearts wimps who want hot and cold running abortions.
November 10, 2008 6:22 AM | Reply | Permalink
In case you've forgotten, I happen to be one of those Republicans who voted for Obama, so you can skip the lecture. However, have you bothered to consider the primary purpose of an assault weapon? Since the NRA called my house at least five times a day during this election cycle, I'm very familiar with the rhetoric currently floating around in, shall we say, less liberal circles. This buying spree isn't like the previous Brady Bill panics and the individuals buying tactical hardware aren't buying then as collectibles. They intend to use them...against people who look like me.
November 10, 2008 10:09 AM | Reply | Permalink
I think that is a paranoid's view of the world and isn't in keeping with the history of this country, no matter which party you belong to. I know plenty of people with guns. Even some with assault rifles. Not a single one fantasizes about rounding up fellow Americans and shooting them, no matter what fringe beliefs might exist in our national tableau.
November 10, 2008 11:25 AM | Reply | Permalink
Ms. Hilton speas the truth!
This is two employees acting like idiots and being disciplined. It's not a national issue, unless you want think Drudge has a nose for news.
November 10, 2008 12:26 AM | Reply | Permalink
Right. Calm down. Don't worry about it. So long as one is white.
I'm tired of being told by whites about "no harm done" and whites ain't racist.
November 10, 2008 4:39 AM | Reply | Permalink
There are bitter people everywhere. There was a report about a teacher bad mouthing McCain after the election.
I mean, come on. How naive are we? This stuff goes on all over the place. Are we really going to get into a pissing contest over this?
November 9, 2008 9:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
Don't get into a pissing contest with Republicans.
Unless you are an elephant.
They kick little kids off of the school bus, and purge the kids parents off the voter rolls. In the values heartland. In Real America.
November 9, 2008 11:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
You're right, 46% of the country are horrible people who are out to destroy everyone who doesn't agree with them. That includes the 10 to 15% of that party who helped elected Barack Obama. Keep painting with that broad brush and will never accomplish a thing.
November 10, 2008 6:17 AM | Reply | Permalink
There is still a lot of work to be done. Thank you for sharing this. I am one of those people has a hard time imagining the blatant racism that exists (subtle, I totally get..). I hope this continues to be talked about.
November 10, 2008 1:08 AM | Reply | Permalink
Keep it real, folks.
We're still the only significant nation on earth to elected a minority, mixed race person as its leader (and, by a landslide!).
Hate the racism, educate the racist.
November 10, 2008 4:56 AM | Reply | Permalink
This is hardly shocking or national news- especially in the election cycle where BO was called a terrorist, socialist, communist and Anti-American. I'm sure many in these places see O as the end of America.
He still won.
It takes about a decade or two or even more before the last gasps of change whisper at the door steps of MS anyways.
Us "Communists" migrating in thousands like in VA may change MS. But again it's MS, who would want to move to MS.
Don't get too shocked. We've come far enough, we can move a little further.
November 10, 2008 6:03 AM | Reply | Permalink
I love the smell of ACLU lawsuit in the morning. It smells like...freedom.
November 10, 2008 7:14 AM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah, those bus drivers gots deep pockets, if not the school district. Where's Morris Dees on this?
November 10, 2008 11:12 AM | Reply | Permalink
Compiling the paperwork that has to get filed, hopefully.
November 10, 2008 11:52 AM | Reply | Permalink
What's the point of putting it on national news? To ridicule Mississippi as backwards and racist?
Let's see, one of the employees was a bus driver. Yeah, right, that's a high up position. Then a coach. Both were promptly disciplined, as they should have been.
So God bless Mississippi, they handled this one quickly, obviously, without need of a lawsuit, and of course without any violence. Maybe folks could learn to stop being so prejudiced against the South and admire how much progress they've made.
November 10, 2008 8:55 AM | Reply | Permalink
Whoever kicked those kids off the bus needs to lose their job. Our schools have no business exercising predjudice of any kind.
Adults involved in our children's educations have an inherent responsibility to educate in a non-biased manner.
Whether the action to kick students off the bus was party bias or racial bias or both, I don't know, but what I do know is, that is inappropriate and irresponsible and should not be tolerated.
November 10, 2008 9:10 AM | Reply | Permalink
A bus driver? Oh right, take a guy at the bottom of the feeding pool who does something stupid but not all that harmful, strip him of his minimal job and toss him on the street, and that will help mutual understanding.
Perhaps we should implement Sharia law? Say something stupid and racist, lose your tongue? Public floggings? Canings like in Singapore?
God bless intolerant America. The idea that a supervisor could simply discipline an employee in a learning kind of way just escapes you, doesn't it?
November 10, 2008 11:16 AM | Reply | Permalink
It's worthy of broader coverage for the way the district handled it and for the way that people stood up for themselves and for the real America, the America that Obama represents.
November 10, 2008 9:55 AM | Reply | Permalink
Barack Obama!
November 10, 2008 10:40 AM | Reply | Permalink