Thank goodness we don’t have anymore problems with racism in the United States:
Black students ordered to give up seats to white children
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.
Nope. Nothing to see here. Just move along…
I deplore bigotry and racism, but I have a question here.
Do you know for certain that bus was on U.S. soil? Coushatta-Alabama in Louisiana, Alabama and Texas (kind of) are part of the Indian Nations and as such are not beholding to all the laws of the United States – including, sadly, equality.
I have NO CLUE if this COUSHATTA and the Red River Elementary School fall into trible land laws. I was just wondering if you knew.
Peace
I am just overwhelmed by this. It’s so outrageous that words fail me. Have we totally “de-volved”? (BTW, evolution as a major has been dropped from the student loan program, just an aside.)
This so frightens me. I’ll have to think about it overnight.
Hope you had a grand vacation. Wish you were able to come to Rising Tide this weekend. You’d be a great addition.
I’m hoping there is more to the story. Considering the way the press just about gets everything wrong.
But if it’s true, fire the bus driver and be done with it. Case closed.
I don’t think that the city of Coushatta LA is in Indian territory – looking at the school district website, it appears they are subject to state testing requirements, so I would presume that they are also subject to state/federal civil rights laws. The Coushatta (Koasati) tribe’s home in LA is in Allen Parish (near the towns of Elton and Kinder.)
I would also mention that this is *NOT* related to the Coushatta Casino/Resort, which is located just outside of Kinder LA – about 100+ miles to the south of the city of Coushatta (and owned/operated by the Koasati tribe.)
Oh, yeah – this is just plain wierd. Maybe the aliens abducted that bus driver 50 years ago, and dropped her off without updating her as to the conditions on the planet.
~EdT.
Just for discussion, let’s pretend the bus was on the Indian reservation and not technically on US soil. Does this somehow change the fact that the seating arrangements of the bus are just plain WRONG? I’d be just as disappointed in this story if the bus were in Iraq or Paris or Antarctica. It’s wrong wrong wrong.
That said, I’m famous for always wanting to know ‘the other side of the story.’ This bus driver has been a bus driver for a long time, has never had a parental complaint before, takes over a route that always had a black bus driver before…. I’ll take “Innocent until proven guilty” for $200. But oooooh it looks ugly.
“…let’s pretend the bus was on the Indian reservation and not technically on US soil. Does this somehow change the fact that the seating arrangements of the bus are just plain WRONG?”
Uh… no.
As far as ‘the other side of the story’ goes, I would be interested in hearing how the driver rationalized this, and if the driver had been sleeping under a rock for the past 50 years or so. Seriously, I just can’t fathom how anyone could think that they could get away with this?
~EdT.