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............

ulterior motives in mississippi?

i'm thinking YES. how much sense does this make? yup, some conservative politicians fearing what the demographic will be in 20 years. skin color a bit darker than the snow

Did a Mississippi Raid Protect Rightwing Politicians?

by: David Bacon, t r u t h o u t | Report
Laurel, Mississippi - On August 25, immigration agents swooped down on Howard Industries, a Mississippi electrical equipment factory, taking 481 workers to a privately-run detention center in Jena, Louisiana. A hundred and six women were also arrested at the plant, and released wearing electronic monitoring devices on their ankles if they had children, or without them if they were pregnant. Eight workers were taken to Federal court in Hattiesburg, where they were charged with aggravated identity theft.

Afterwards Barbara Gonzalez, spokesperson for the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), stated the raid took place because of a tip by a "union member" two years before. Other media accounts focused on an incident in which plant workers allegedly cheered as their coworkers were led away by ICE agents. The articles claim the plant was torn by tension between immigrant and non-immigrant workers, and that unions in Mississippi are hostile to immigrants...........

huh?

don't commit adultry in mississippi - that's fo sho. oh, and i wonder if it works the OTHER way around as well. could a woman sue a man who stepped out on her AND WIN?
Award stands for man who sued for theft of wife
A law still on the books in Mississippi entitles Johnny Valentine to over $750,000 from the man that his ex-wife Sandra ended up marrying, a judgment made final by the U.S. Supreme Court's refusal to hear the case, previously upheld on the state level.

After then-named Sandra Valentine and businessman Jerry Fitch Sr. conceived a child during an affair, the Valentines divorced. Johnny then sued Fitch under the state's "alienation of affection" law, which entitles an abandoned spouse legal recourse for loss of companionship, love, and sex.......

you go gene!

you know they (king george and his entire court) don't give a flying yoo hoo about the people of your state (or the people of the entire gulf region for that matter.)

sounds like gene is the kind of person i'd like to sit down and have a cup o' java with.

don't back down. you represent the AMERICAN PEOPLE. sounds like they CAN count on you to speak the truth

Democrat silenced on House floor for Katrina remark

Democrat silenced on House floor for Katrina remark

After questioning a Republican congressmember's "decency" for seeking to restrict housing reconstruction funds for Hurricane Katrina and Rita victims, a Democratic Representative was barred Wednesday from the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives. By a vote of the House's membership, his speaking privileges were quickly restored, and the Member apologized.
But in an interview with RAW STORY, the staff of Democratic Congressman Gene Taylor of Mississippi stood by the sentiment of his remarks, and seemed eager to get in the last word.
"He apologized to [Rep. Tom] Price, and everybody lived happily ever after, except the people of southern Mississippi who are still living in travel trailers," said Rep. Taylor's spokeswoman...........