Black students ordered to give up seats to white children

[buff2]

This is outrageous!This has republican fingerprints all over it. :grr:




COUSHATTA -- Nine black children attending Red River Elementary School were directed last week to the back of the school bus by a white driver who designated the front seats for white children.

The situation has outraged relatives of the black children who have filed a complaint with school officials.


Superintendent Kay Easley will meet with the family members in her office this morning.





http://www.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060824/NEWS01/608240332/1002/NEWS

[Benhurst]

1. This is so grotesque I'd laugh if it weren't so sad. NT

[Yupster]

18. I'd want to hear more about this story

I wouldn't be surprised if there's more to it.

If it's this simple, it's going to have a simple solution. The driver will be quickly fired.

[T Wolf]

2. As disgusting is the Freeper response -

rationalization and don't trust what the media say, etc.

I reall feel like I have to clean up after visiting there. But I was curious to see their response.

[SmokingJacket]

3. Well, if it's gonna happen anywhere, it will happen there.

Hard to believe... but there are whole towns in that neck of the woods still basically run by Klansmen.

What's scary is that the bus driver thought he could get away with it.

[crikkett]

4. perhaps

Perhaps, said white children were troublemakers whom the driver felt needed to be up front, for the driver to feel that s/he could safely transport the children?

I sure hope there's a reasonable explanation, and that this turns into a gripe about slanted reporting.
Sigh.

[T Wolf]

5. Then why were all the black kids forced to sit in TWO seats?

I saw a similar rationalization from a Freeper. Only it was the black kids (of course) who were the troublemakers.

[crikkett]

19. then that's dumb and bigoted isn't it, to send troublemakers to the back.

n/t

[bowens43]

6. Funny

the freepers have the opposite take. They suggest that the black kids are trouble makers and needed to be put in the back so she could keep an eye on them.

The explanation is most likely racism.

[trumad]

7. I guess next it will be water fountains.

[EFerrari]

8. Is there a Hate Index on line somewhere?

Because I want to be able to stay current.

[KingFlorez]

16. Please

You are really reaching with that one

[crikkett]

20. you obviously know more than I do.

And I guess it helps to read the entire article, doesn't it?

mea culpa

[Horse with no Name]

9. Gee

It's almost as if Brown v. Board of Education never existed...:puke:

[Hugin]

10. $10 says that driver is looking for work this afternoon...

I've heard KKKarl needs a driver, dude.

[Beelzebud]

11. I would certainly hope so...

[Hugin]

12. How soon they forget...

Whether it's lunch counters or bus seats... Discrimination is *NEVER* okay.

[wicket]

14. Amen to that

:grr:

[JitterbugPerfume]

13. Shades of 1954!!

And we were naive enough to think those days were behind us forever


damn

[AspenRose]

15. Kick for the naive DUers who think people exaggerate about racism

:grr: :kick:

[Initech]

17. Is this the fucking 1950's? WTF????

[malaise]

21. Good fugging grief

back to the 50s.