Students Kicked Off Bus For Saying Obama’s Name

By News One December 8, 2008 10:24 am
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From WAPT.com:

Two students on a school bus in a Mississippi town were kicked off the bus for saying, “Obama is our President.” The students were left at the Pearl High School and later taken to Pearl Junior High where they attend school.
Parents in the town are outraged and school adminstration officials have taken action against the bus driver, but it is unclear what the disciplinary action actually is.

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  • 4-27-2009 8:54 pm

    God knew what he was doing when he sent Katrina down here, as aweful as it sounds, the racism is disguisting here … I would have never thought racism was this real unless I had been here to see it with my own eyes.. black people have to stand up for themselves… but more, we have to support each other…

  • 3-11-2009 11:07 pm

    I’m getting tired of this s**t to. When Bush was president we could say it all day long, now that OBAMA is president it’s a problem discussing it. I remember at work our boss didn’t want us to talk about the presidental election before Obama got elected and I kept on. This is a country with freedom of speech and i’ll be damned if I bite my tongue. It shouldn’t even be a race thing because he is half white and black… I guess it’s just the fact to some people that he has some black in him and more black than white. I wouldn’t had made it back in slavery days… as soon as I was abled to talk they would have hung me.

  • 1-12-2009 10:59 pm

    This is a shame. I’m so terrified to see how people are going to react when we actually takes office. Sad Sad Sad…

  • 12-14-2008 3:29 pm

    People is just acting a donkey cause Obama is black and he’s going to be leading this nation after January 20th. And he is mixed so y the f**k don’t white ppl acknowledge that. I mean technically Obama represents both races so ppl should be glad to have somebody who can understand being on both side of these dualing ethnicities. Personally i say if you can’t accept that fact that the Obama got black in him then take yo a** to another country.

  • 12-13-2008 11:14 am

    Unfortunately ignorance is on the rise…people are letting their anger consume them,things have to get better because if it doesn’t there will be a war within our own country.

  • 12-10-2008 11:32 am

    I think that was a disgrace. The fact that we try to teach our children (all children) not to hate and love all then something like this happens. I have family that live in Crenshaw, Ms. and it that way also with some of the whites. When will we get over this haterd and learn to love. when we die God is not going to have special places for the different races we will all go to the same place and have no choice but to live together and love so why not start here. We have a black president, something different in history and instead of worring about him we need to focus on other thing more inportant. Like bringing soliders home from a country that no matter how much we fight or how many soliders we send it will not stop the problem.So let us focus on something that really needs attention and learn how to LOVE EACH OTHER. The parents are mad I know of these two children but they need to explain to them that this world has not grown to love yet, it probably wont be the last of these kind of things in their life, but to forgive (like God would want us to do) and remember it’snot our battle. Everything people do negative it will come back on them harder by GOD.

  • 12-10-2008 11:18 am

    Sad part about this is that this will not be the only time something like this happends, we have alot more years to go through this non-sence.

  • 12-10-2008 10:42 am

    I think that it can happen anywhere in America not only in the south. It is just heightened in the South

  • 12-10-2008 10:03 am

    EVERYONE NEEDS TO ACCEPT THE FACT THAT WE HAVE A BLACK PRESIDENT AND HIS NAME IS OBAMA AND NO 1 IS GOING TO CHANGE THAT PERIOD POINT BLANK.

  • 12-10-2008 9:31 am

    FOR YA INFO I LIVE IN MS! MABEY THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN HAPPIER IF THE KID WOULDVE SAID SUMTHIN BOUT HITLER OR W BUSH!

  • 12-10-2008 12:42 am

    Only in the South! Somethin like this WOULD happen in Mississippi…goodness I don’t know why anybody with any sense even still lives in that part of the country. Here we are in 2008 and it’s like it’s still 1955 down there. That bus driver and that coach would have been fired the SAME day if that had happened in California or any other non-Southern state. What the heck does the school district need to investigate?!?! Fire them and send out a warning that if any other employees want to act hateful they might as well just start polishing up their (probably weak) resumes!!

  • 12-10-2008 12:21 am

    Oh my God you can’t be serious I dont see a reasion for so many people to so discrimitive
    agenst Obama esspeicaly to the point where you kick a child off a bus for saying Obama’s name I mean minoritys were not the only one’s voteing for Obama but many whit’s as well.

    The election was not won based on the color of Obama’s or Mc Cain’s skin but more on the fact that the people wanted change after these past 8 years I mean Bush really ran this country in to the ground and besides the point if the out come was the oppisite and Mc Cain had won and the bus driver had a child the was on the bus of a black drive and he or she would had say Mc Cain’s name and got put off the buss I’m pretty shure they would have gotten upset and demanded the buss driver get fired so I thank it’s only right to fire the driver for not only being a raceal but also not thanking before acted.

  • 12-9-2008 11:44 pm

    We are all the same human beings stop looking at color,sex,age to discriminate. God loves all equally and on judgement day that is who everyone will answer to.

  • 12-9-2008 8:44 pm

    You have got to be kidding me. To throw some school kids off of a bus just for saying Barack Obama name. Just for saying the TRUTH.I hate to see anyone lose their jobs..espcially with the economy the wy it is, but the bus driver and the coach and whoever issued that LAME ASS apolgy should be fired. When the the RACISM and STUPIDITY end. What next? Sasha and Malaya get thrown out os school for saying that their father is the President?

  • 12-9-2008 4:44 pm

    LMAO~What is really funny about this is the fact that folks are showing their ignorance and are not even aware or caring. When folks talk about that wild man and his regime that are currently in office it’s because he has shown and proven himself to be a dumbass. Pres. Elect Obama has only shown his smarts and savvyness all through his campaigin, and now as he gathers his cabinet. So why are they not wanting to her his name? What policies has he made that one can disagree with? What consipracy is he and hi family embroiled in? How bloody are his hands from lives being sacrfaiced for a nonsense war? Like the baby said ” This is history lady” push on and get over it. Don’t like it leave America!!! lol USA!USA!USA!

  • 12-9-2008 3:51 pm

    Thats a bunch of bs, thats wrong. what if something had happen to those kids. They could have been kidnapped or killed or something. The driver should get fired.

  • 12-9-2008 1:30 pm

    Where are Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton?? lol. This just goes to show what type of world we live in. I love our new president-elect, but hatred or intolerance of another race is still alive and well. The school should be ashamed of itself for the statement it issued. Those school officials should fire those people, but we all know they’ll get a slap on th wrist. This is an abuse of power. What are they teaching the children?? That if you are in a leadership position you can abuse authority and manipulate and bribe people into doing what you ask them to do?? In the business world, this type of act could land you in jail!! Lets deal with this accordingly because it was and is unacceptable. FIRE those people so that the example can be set, that this type of behavior is unacceptable in society and in life in general. P.C. My president is Barack Obama and I DARE you to throw me off a bus!!

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