This is outrageous...back to the fifties...

[loudnclear]

I really fear for minorities in this country.

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/09/national/09RAID.html?ex=1071550800&en=b6659f3887b8462e&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE

[SlavesandBulldozers]

1. clear cut racism

It's not surprising at all. I'd like to see the principal and the police fired, and a huge settlement. They call it Goose Creek, sounds more like GooseStep.

[dreissig]

2. Blacks in Chains

The image of blacks in chains while cops hold back police dogs will provoke an uproar. Regardless of what prompted the raid, no public administrator wants to be associated with bringing back the 1950's.

[La_Serpiente]

3. WTF

:wtf: seriously. They are asking for it.

It is time to start a movement in this country. People better wake up to the fact that racism lives.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

4. I fear this is a dry run for the Police State

that will surely come into being if Shrub is reelected.

I hope the ACLU and the lawyers are able to win their suit against the principal and the cops.

[zeemike]

5. There is something more than racism that scares me

And that is the fact that we are being forced to except being raided by the police and forced to get down on the ground under gunpoint.
It is like we are trying to train our young to accept the tyranny of force with out objection. The new Orwellian state?

[Fleshdancer]

6. angry beyond words

what could I possibly say to this???
What's next?

Raiding Middle Eastern students for possible terrorist activity?

Raiding Hispanic students just to make sure they're not illegal aliens?

Raiding female students for being too outspoken?

Hitler would be very proud indeed.

[DUreader]

7. Please post an excerpt for those without NYT access

thankyou

[OneTwentyoNine]

8. Who ordered it up, Tom DeLay?? n/t

[pnb]

9. Not necessarily racism

Without knowing the information that was acted upon in this situation, you can't just assume that racism caused anything here or is even an issue here.

It is indeed true, as the article seemed to indicate, that drugs were possibly being sold in a certain place at a certain time, you go after who is in that area at that certain place and certain time (if you are attacking at all...personally the manner in which the raid was done was the true crime), regardless of the racial makeup of the people there.