Mississippi Students Told Not to Say Obama's Name

[Hissyspit]

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Students_asked_not_to_say_Obamas_1107.html

Mississippi students told not to say Obama's name

David Edwards and Muriel Kane
Published: Friday November 7, 2008

A controversy has erupted at a Mississippi junior high school over allegations that a bus driver and a coach threatened students with punishment for saying Barack Obama's name.

The incidents became public when outraged parents called the studios of WAPT news in Pearl, Miss. Some said their children were threatened by a bus driver with being written up and taken to the principal's office, others that their children were told by a girls' basketball coach they would be suspended.

Reginald Simpson, a student at Pearl Junior High, explained that when students on the bus started saying, "Obama is our president," the bus driver told them she didn't want to hear his name. One kid said, "This is history woman," and according to Simpson, "She pulled over and kicked me and the kid off the bus." They were left waiting at the high school and later taken to their own school.

"They feel like they afraid to say who our president is, cause they afraid they going to be in trouble," Reginald's mother Canishia told WAPT. "We teach our kids not to be racist, and here it is going on. I just feel hurt by it."

The Simpson family is black. However, another mother whose son was on the bus and who also plans to confront school officials about the incident is white. "This is what the whole election was about," Venus Neagu told WAPT. "It was supporting someone. And now that they've done it and they're on the school bus, now they're getting consequences for it."

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[Horse with no Name]

1. I never thought I would live to tell someone to "Get over it"

But really? Is there any time those words were spoken that they were more true?
What are they going to do?
Tear pages out of history books?

[frogcycle]

2. welcome to the ranks of the unemployed, bus driver

I hope you are the last one to find work after the Obama-crafted recovery

[bluestateguy]

3. I will not toleratre smearing of the President-Elect by wingnuts

nt

[Horse with no Name]

4. It is a given that that is going to happen

And to be fair, we smeared Bush. However, this falls under a completely different level.
This is PUNISHING CHILDREN for saying the name of the President-elect of the US.
It's an entirely different premise and a very disturbing one as well.

[upi402]

8. Like the Xtian Taliban or something

Different huh? Not American, not my America. I blame the corporate media.

[bobbolink]

17. That would make a good LTTE.. I hope you write it!

:thumbsup:

[blue sky at night]

5. Often it is better to remain silent and appear a fool than to....

open ones mouth and remove all doubt. How stupid can people be to think this way, and the students are always brighter than the adults surrounding them......????

If it had been me when I was in Junior High and High School I would have been glad to be written up...you know kids, nothing ventured, nothing gained.






CHange, HOpe, BArack OBama and JOe BIden....and I would pray that you will never be ashamed to confess their names........!!!

[enough]

6. My grandmother's family hated FDR so much that they refused to speak his name in the house.

They called him "That Man."

(I know I've told this story before on DU, but it seems relevant here.)

[MadMaddie]

7. The students do have "Freedom of Speech" rights...

Take the bus drive and school to court.

Bet the bus driver didn't have a problem with the kids saying * was the president.

[Sebastian Doyle]

9. Mrs. Crabtree the racist ass bus driver needs to sit down and shut the fuck up!

[Zomby Woof]

10. But this is from Raw Story

So I would await confirmation from a reliable source.

[M0rpheus]

11. Link at the bottom of the story...

http://www.wapt.com/politics/17925627/detail.html

[Hissyspit]

13. That's uncalled for.

The reporters at Raw Story have done some excellent work and the mainstream media have done their share of getting stuff wrong over the past eight years, so I don't understand the point of your post.

[Doctor_J]

14. Can you point us to some stories that lalarawraw has gotten wrong?

:shrug:

[ColbertWatcher]

12. Perhaps Pearl Junior High School needs a little reminder of how PRESIDENT-ELECT OBAMA got elected?

I wonder if anyone has any remaining Obama signs, posters, buttons, etc. that could be mailed to Pearl Junior High School?

200 Mary Ann Dr
Pearl, MS 39208

(http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&q=pearl+junior+high+pearl+ms&fb=1&cid=0,0,3884742556979352833&ll=32.281346,-90.108919&spn=0.008,0.013068&z=16&iwloc=A)

And apparently at that link, you can post a "review" of the school.

[ColbertWatcher]

15. Kick!!! n/t

[Eagle_Eye]

16. Ostriches