Students kicked off bus and threatened with suspension for saying Obama's name

[proud2BlibKansan]

http://www.wapt.com/video/17928161/index.html

[ikojo]

1. Wow! Some right wing bus driver and right wing coach

is not happy that Grandpa didn't win so they discipline STUDENTS for saying the words Barack Obama? I find it hard to wrap my head around that.

[yeswecanandwedid]

12. Racists suck. So do sore losers. nt

[niyad]

2. the STUDENTS will face no disciplinary action???? how could that idiot super even SUGGEST that the

STUDENTS had done anything warranting discipline?

the "appropriate action" for the driver and the coach should have been termination.

[sarge43]

3. That 'tude should make for some interesting

civics and social studies classes at that school.

[man4allcats]

4. Unfortunately, racism is alive and well.

What remarkable ignorance!

[mokawanis]

5. sue the bastards

I'd be calling a lawyer

[seabeyond]

6. i am really curious if there was a chant, obama... obama.... or something. there was a lot of that

in my boys school too. natural and what kids do. i can imagine a frustration escalating to dont say his name, then kicking them off the bus.

i think there is some softening of the story and i imagine that the superintendent handle it fine.

[Zuiderelle]

7. I feel so sorry for those kids.

That reaction from the driver and that coach prove that they have been living with racism from those people for a LONG time. Holy shit. They should be celebrating with them, not punishing them for their happiness.

[asdjrocky]

8. Love it at the end of the video

where they have the picture of President Elect Obama smiling and waving and then in big bold letters: Obama Controversy. What did he have to do with it other than winning an election?

Some people are just plain ignorant, there's no other word for it.

[pretzel4gore]

9. subhuman mentality...

the reactionary rightwing have ruled the roost for 30 years, if not more. Bill Ayers, a lefty patriot who tried to defend the country by resisting illegal war against 'nam long ago, is spoken of as a 'terrorist' while the reactionary rightwing media has used real terrorism (remember that susan schmidt creep who sent copies of corporate private emails critical of junyer bush and the gopigs, to their corporate bosses in effort to cause them to lose jobs?) or saying Obama 'pals with terrorists' and is a muslim/commie etc (even printing picture of him dressed as obl on the New Yorker frontpiece)...the fact is, unless these people are seen for what they are ie SUBHUMANS, they will be allowed to hide among us and continue to sabatoge the effective dissemination of vital news/info, to the detriment of law, order, good government. Sub human maybe seems overkill rhetorical, but WHY have they A) stolen the 2k election to seat a dimwit who probably is ruined now forever, a pariah, who gained nothing?...B) get USA involved in crazy wars against the ss/cia etc's own agents in the extremist Muslim community, with all the collateral damage involved and costs, again all for naught? C) ruin the US economy by politicising the numbers and D) ruin the mass media by embedding ten thousand big lies in the 'true story' of what happened to us, and incorporating those lies, while keeping hidden the criminals, responsible for the scheming? Etcetera.
A human being would see that, given limitations to global resources, esp. with such problems as over population, global weather pattern upset, peak oil, military spending that wastes 1/2 of the gnp of planet earth already, and emerging super viruses, superstorms and ...mass death as a basic logic to reaction's hoped-for success of the insane rightwing philosophy, then 'sub human' might be just the facts ma'am...

[Tabasco_Dave]

10. McCain lost, get over it !!!!

I've been waiting 8 years to say that.

[TommyO]

11. I've sent my comments and recommendations to the school board

http://www.pearl.k12.ms.us/schools/districthome/ContactUs/tabid/561/Default.aspx