Black students ordered to give up seats to white children

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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.

[...]

Easley would not comment much on the allegations Wednesday, saying it is a personnel issue. She acknowledged that she has investigated the claim. And she confirmed that the bus driver did not run her route Wednesday, nor would she today.

Asked if the driver would work for the rest of the year, Easley said, "I'm not going to answer the questions. You're getting all that you're going to get from me. I'm sorry."

[...]

... Iva Richmond, is the mother of two of the children, ages 14 and 15, and foster parent to three others, ages 5, 6 and 10. Janice Williams, who is the mother of the other four children, is Richmond's neighbor. All nine children catch the bus at a stop on Ashland Road.

[...]

After Richmond and Williams filed complaints with the School Board, Transportation Supervisor Jerry Carlisle asked Davis to make seat assignments for her passengers, Sessoms said.

"But she still assigned the black children to the back of the bus," she added.

And the nine children had to share only two seats, meaning the older children had to hold the younger ones in their laps.

A new solution reached Monday by School Board officials has a black bus driver driving across town to pick up the nine black children.

"I think the whole school system needs to be reviewed in Red River Parish," Sessoms said.

http://www.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbcs.d...40332/1002/NEWS

[mawilson 2,133]

Back to square one?

[Ban Hammer 13,676]

not surprising considering this is a state that left blacks to die in a hurricane when the city or state government could have used over a thousand school buses to evac them.

Edited August 24, 2006 by charlesandnessa

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

not surprising considering this is a state that left blacks to die in a hurricane when the city or state government could have used over a thousand school buses to evac them.

[Ban Hammer 13,676]

not surprising considering this is a state that left blacks to die in a hurricane when the city or state government could have used over a thousand school buses to evac them.

and new orleans then turns around and reelected that idiot for mayor......

[UmmSqueakster 54]

Time warp

[ajames79 0]

not surprising considering this is a state that left blacks to die in a hurricane when the city or state government could have used over a thousand school buses to evac them.

and new orleans then turns around and reelected that idiot for mayor......

I could not believe that!!! SHOCKED!

That man is a criminal....

[Boiler 46,322]

not surprising considering this is a state that left blacks to die in a hurricane when the city or state government could have used over a thousand school buses to evac them.

and new orleans then turns around and reelected that idiot for mayor......

I could not believe that!!! SHOCKED!

That man is a criminal....

And black.

[jodee 30]

Surely we have not just regressed 30 odd years,..!!!!

That is truly disgusting!!

JOdee

[heishe 2]

There will always be jerks.

[almaty 19]

a total chopf##k

[I'm Gone 60]

not surprising considering this is a state that left blacks to die in a hurricane when the city or state government could have used over a thousand school buses to evac them.

Now you know that was George Bush's fault. LOL

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not surprising considering this is a state that left blacks to die in a hurricane when the city or state government could have used over a thousand school buses to evac them.

and new orleans then turns around and reelected that idiot for mayor......

Not to completely hijack the thread, but did anyone hear about this?

Katrina Survivor Lauds Bush in What Democrats Call PR Stunt

By Peter Baker

Washington Post Staff Writer

Thursday, August 24, 2006; Page A09

Four more years? Rockey Vaccarella thinks so. President Bush's own staff, though, isn't convinced.

The president played host to Vaccarella, a Hurricane Katrina survivor trailed by a documentary crew, for coffee at the White House yesterday to demonstrate concern for those still afflicted a year after the storm. Vaccarella, it turned out, had another idea in mind as well.

"I just wish the president could have another term in Washington," he said as cameras rolled on the South Lawn, where the two appeared together after coffee.

"Wait a minute," Bush interjected with a laugh.

"You know, I wish you had another four years, man," Vaccarella said. "If we had this president for another four years, I think we'd be great."

Bush did not disagree, constitutional term limits notwithstanding. But his spokeswoman later made it clear that in a White House exhausted by war, terrorism and all manner of disasters, both meteorological and political, the idea of a third term didn't stir much enthusiasm. "Believe me," deputy press secretary Dana Perino joked, "I think staff thinks that two are plenty."

The Vaccarella visit was part of a preemptive effort by the White House to fend off fresh criticism of the administration's handling of Katrina as the first anniversary approaches. Vaccarella praised the government effort while saying he "wanted to remind the president that the job's not done, and he knows that." Bush plans to travel to the Gulf Coast region for two days next week to tour damaged areas, and he vowed to cut through any "bureaucratic hurdles" holding up reconstruction efforts.

"I know we're coming up on the first-year anniversary of Katrina and it's a time to remember," the president said. Noting that Vaccarella and others lost their homes, Bush added: "It's a time to recommit ourselves to helping them. But I also want people to remember that a one-year anniversary is just that, because it's going to require a long time to help these people rebuild."

Democrats quickly responded with a statement noting that Vaccarella once ran for local office as a Republican and with a report blasting the administration's post-Katrina work.

"In our Gulf Coast, the tens of thousands of Hurricane Katrina survivors are still engaged in an unparalleled struggle to rebuild their lives," said House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.). "Meanwhile, back in Washington, President Bush is holding a public relations blitz that the survivors of Katrina can ill afford."

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I really, really can't believe that this kind of ####### still goes on. Guess I'm glad I'm in Indiana. I've never seen anything like this.

What is the issue? Fire her #######. Get a new driver who isn't a scumbag. How hard is that?

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

not surprising considering this is a state that left blacks to die in a hurricane when the city or state government could have used over a thousand school buses to evac them.

and new orleans then turns around and reelected that idiot for mayor......

I could not believe that!!! SHOCKED!

That man is a criminal....

And black.

Government stupidity has no racial boundaries at least.