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Black students ordered to give up seats to white children |
http://www.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060824/NEWS01/608240332/1002/NEWS
Black students ordered to give up seats to white children
Status of Red River Parish bus driver is unknown.
August 24, 2006
By Vickie Welborn
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.
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People also is
considering filing a formal charge with the U.S. Department of Justice.
NAACP District Vice President James Panell, of Shreveport, said he would
apprise Justice attorneys of the situation this week. He's considering
asking for an investigation into the bus incident and other aspects of the
school system's operations, including pupil-teacher ratio as it relates to
the numbers of white and black children, along with a breakdown of the
numbers of black and white teachers employed.
"If the smoke is there, then there's probably fire somewhere else,"
Panell said in a phone interview from New Orleans. "At this point, it is
extremely alarming. We fought that battle 50 years ago, and we won. Why is
this happening again?"
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."
Red River Elementary School Principal Jamie Lawrence tried to rectify
the seating situation when it was brought to her attention. But it was
ultimately handled at the Central Office, Patricia Sessoms said.
Sessoms aunt, 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.
Sessoms will join Richmond and Williams in their meeting with Easley
today. Sessoms said they would ask for bus driver Delores Davis' immediate
termination. Davis, who originates her bus route in Martin, has called
Richmond to apologize, Sessoms said. A message left on Davis' answering
machine late Wednesday afternoon was not immediately returned.
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.
Sessoms, who has two children at Red River Elementary, said she has no
problems with her bus driver. "I have a wonderful bus driver," she added.
Sessoms' request to have her young children sit near the front because of
their ages was granted.
School Board member Gene Longino said Wednesday evening that he had
not heard about the situation involving the nine children.
"I don't know anything about that. "» Until something formally comes
to the School Board members through the superintendent, we don't know the
details," Longino said.
School Board President Ricky Cannon was at work Wednesday evening and
unavailable for comment. Board member J.B. McElwee also was not at home.
Calls to the homes of Cleve Miller, Kassandria Wells White, Karen Womack and
Jessie Webber were not answered.
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Article Comments
children on bus Thu Aug 24, 2006 8:40 am
I know that when my children were riding a school bus thay were
assigned seats from the begining of the school year. I wonder where they
were assigned to? The artical mentioned that there were older children.
Most of the time seating arrangments on a bus put the older children in the
back anyways (weather black or white). I know if I had a younger child
riding a bus I would want that child to ride up front away from the older
children. Everybody can not seat in the front of a bus, there is not enough
room. Nobody is making a big stink about the white children sitting in the
backs of busses. I do think that there should be some type of rules set
about seating on school busses implimented by the schoolboard. I would make
the suggestion that it be based on age. With a clause about sibblings
sitting together. Allow the younger sibbling to sit with the older one but
not vise versa.
Children on bus Thu Aug 24, 2006 8:10 am
Being a native of South Louisiana, currently residing in Texas,
I am not at all shocked with this. Forbes recently said Louisiana is the
worst state in the US for business, New Orleans can't get people there to
revive it, and the KKK mentality of North Louisiana is still thriving as
usual.
Now I know why Texas hasn't slipped into the Gulf of Mexico.
Because Louisiana sucks.
Signed,
A complacent Cajun
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24 Aug 2006 07:50:32 PM |
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Portugal was once a great nation. It might have been the greatest
nation on earth at one time. But now it is almost like a third world
country. What happened? Race-mixing is what happened. They let a lot
of Black people in and of course the result was racial inter-marriage.
Now the Portuguese people are not as White as they were. We need to
preserve the White race. Here are some quotes from Mein Kampf:
"All that we admire in the world to-day, its science, its art, its
technical developments and discoveries, are the products of the
creative activities of a few peoples, and it may be true that their
first beginnings must be attributed to one race. The maintenance of
civilization is wholly dependant on such peoples. Should they perish,
all that makes this earth beautiful will descend with them into the
grave."
"All the great civilizations of the past became decadent because the
originally creative race died out, as a result of the contamination on
the blood."
"Every manifestation of human culture, every product of art, science
and technical skill, which we see before our eyes to-day, is almost
exclusively the product of the Aryan creative power. This very fact
fully justifies the conclusion that it was the Aryan alone who founded
a superior type of humanity"
"The foundations of actual life in Japan to-day are not those of the
native Japanese culture, although this characterizes the external
features of the country, which features strike the eye of European
observers on account of their fundamental difference from us; but the
real foundations of contemporary Japanese life are the enormous
scientific and technical achievements of Europe and America, that is
to say, of Aryan peoples."
"A people that fails to preserve the purity of its racial blood
thereby destroys the unity of the soul of the nation in all its
manifestations. A disintegrated national character is the inevitable
consequence of the process of disintegration in the blood. And the
change which takes place in the spiritual and creative faculties of a
people is only an effect of the change that had modified its racial
substance."
"For in a world which would be composed of mongrels and Negroid all
ideals of human beauty and nobility and all hopes of an idealized
future for our humanity would be lost forever."
"It is especially the cultural creativeness which disappears when a
superior race inter-mixes with an inferior one."
"There may be hundreds of excellent States in this earth, and yet if
the Aryan, who is the creator and custodian of civilization, should
disappear, all culture that is on an adequate level with the spiritual
needs of the superior nations to-day would also disappear."
"We National Socialists know that in holding these views we take up a
revolutionary stand in the world to-day and that we are branded as
revolutionaries. But our views and our conduct will not be determined
by the approbation or disapprobation of our contemporaries, but only
by our duty to follow a truth which we have acknowledged. In doing
this we have reason to believe that posterity will have a clearer
insight"
"Thus for the first time a high inner purpose is accredited to the
State. In face of the ridiculous phrase that the State should do no
more than act as the guardian of public order and tranquility, so that
everybody can peacefully dupe everybody else, it is given a very high
mission indeed to preserve and encourage the highest type of humanity
which a beneficent Creator has bestowed on this earth."
http://www.nationalvanguard.org http://www.natvan.com
http://www.thebirdman.org http://www.ihr.org/
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