the 1950s and 60s all over again

except it's 2008 and our president elect's name is barack obama. isn't it NON american to tell children they can't talk about their new president? perhaps those that deemed kids can't talk about our president elect are radical terrorists who are NOT part of 'real' america. what do YOU think?

Mississippi students told not to say Obama's name

David Edwards and Muriel Kane
A controversy has erupted at a Mississippi junior high school over allegations that a bus driver and a coach threatened students with punishment for saying Barack Obama's name.

The incidents became public when outraged parents called the studios of WAPT news in Pearl, Miss. Some said their children were threatened by a bus driver with being written up and taken to the principal's office, others that their children were told by a girls' basketball coach they would be suspended.

Reginald Simpson, a student at Pearl Junior High, explained that when students on the bus started saying, "Obama is our president," the bus driver told them she didn't want to hear his name. One kid said, "This is history woman," and according to Simpson, "She pulled over and kicked me and the kid off the bus." They were left waiting at the high school and later taken to their own school............