Nine African-American students
By on Aug 24th, 2006 at 1:18 pm
Nine African-American students
in Louisiana were ordered to move “to the back of the school bus by a white driver who designated the front seats for white children.” The NAACP is considering filing charges.
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August 24th, 2006 at 1:20 pmThis is ridiculous. I can’t believe that someone who have the balls to do something like this. There is no room for racism in society.
August 24th, 2006 at 1:21 pmWTF!?!?!?!?!?!?! I’m completely convinced that our country is on a rapid spiral back in time.
August 24th, 2006 at 1:24 pmHere we go again. It could only happen in Bushworld. How’s that? It didn’t happen on Clinton’s watch.
August 24th, 2006 at 1:24 pmI’m sorry. Did we just fall through some sort of time warp wormhole or something?
This cannot be a real story, is it?
If true the driver is deserving of more than a lawsuit.
Wait, lemme guess.
He’s a republican.
August 24th, 2006 at 1:26 pmIf this is true, this guy needs to go to jail.
We tolerate a lot of crap in this country, but sending little children to the back of the bus because of their skin color is criminal.
This guy needs the crap beaten out of him.
Those kids are going to remember this for the rest of their lives.
August 24th, 2006 at 1:28 pmFirst off, I am a conservative, so I object to the idea that either all conservatives or only conservatives are racist. Secondly, the political affiliation of this nut really doesn’t matter. He absolutely deserves to be sued, and not just by the NAACP. Every individual rights group needs to sue.
August 24th, 2006 at 1:32 pmahem. the driver is a woman.
she’s a racist, for sure, but you’re all sexists. ;)
August 24th, 2006 at 1:35 pmSnarky:
Oh, I see they put the wrong date on the article. It is really from August 24, 2006.
Reality:
OMFG. I can’t believe that this sh!t still goes on. Oh wait, yes I can. This is what happens when the racist republican party is allowed to run all three branches. The racists grow bigger balls and think they can get away with what they did “back in the good old days”
August 24th, 2006 at 1:36 pmI am at a loss for words. From the story, it seems as if this was not a one-time occurrence.
See, African-Americans are treated differently from an early age. It is no wonder, then, that the education, income gap should be widening. If this is how minorities are treated by a petty bus driver over a petty issue such as bus seats, you can imagine what it is like when applying for jobs, scholarships, etc.
By the way, the bus driver is a woman.
August 24th, 2006 at 1:37 pmOh course, I went a F’d up my Snarky. It should say August 24, 1956.
August 24th, 2006 at 1:37 pmIncluding the ACLU that you people seem to hate so much?
August 24th, 2006 at 1:38 pmThen compound that with the fact that a lot of blacks are either Muslim or are converting to Muslim and you have “home grown” terrorists.
Why the hell can’t republicans figure out how terrorists are made?
August 24th, 2006 at 1:39 pmAh, the true neocon agenda, returning to the 1950’s. Hard to believe this happened in 2006.
August 24th, 2006 at 1:41 pmAs the Bush policies call for returning to the past racist action is anyone surprised. Look for Bush is pass the law that minorities have no rights. Tony Chrissy Snow as represented those facts as that of the White House. Look at all the elected official using racism in their speeches. I told you this would happen and it has. Mel Gibson called Jews names he should have called Blacks/Spanish names then he would have been considered a hero. Once Americans allow the KKK to run the White House others follow that lead. Most Americans are passed that kind of hate but when you have leaders that spread that message to others people will follow. Remember their using racism in the name of religion and God. Funny what Born Again means now I thought it was to follow the teaching of Jesus but Bush has shown it means to follow the teachings of Satan.
August 24th, 2006 at 1:43 pmTo all you idiots:
This is not (and I repeat NOT) a issue that is based on politics!! So lumping it all as a Republican issue. You are all a bunch if ignoreant SOB!!!
August 24th, 2006 at 1:52 pm#3
August 24th, 2006 at 1:52 pmYes, I agree, we are going backward in this country.
Racists, bigots and other cretins are emboldened to come out of their rat holes and show their true colors.
#8 WitchWay11, AMEN! Thank you very much!
For all the sexism and racism awareness I find among my fellow liberals, it’s amazing to see just how sexist many of you can be as long as the sexism is anti-male.
Even though the gender of the driver was almost painfully avoided in the article (typical when the villain is a woman), anyone who actually read the story, before commenting on it, could not have missed the fact that the bus driver was a woman.
It just goes to prove that sexism goes both ways. TRUE feminists believe in gender equality, not just women’s equality.
August 24th, 2006 at 1:53 pm16. Yeah that’s right – who the hell mentioned republicans being responsible? You are more outraged at the comments than the situation. FIGURES.
August 24th, 2006 at 1:53 pmFirst off, I am a conservative, so I object to the idea that either all conservatives or only conservatives are racist.
Comment by Right — August 24, 2006 @ 1:32 pm
Yea?
So do we.
August 24th, 2006 at 1:54 pmMaybe if you guys knocked it off for a while the idea would diminish.
August 24th, 2006 at 1:57 pmMaybe if you guys knocked it off for a while the idea would diminish.
August 24th, 2006 at 1:57 pmthis is frakking unbelievable!
and for any republicans who hate racism: yes, your party is the party of preference for racists around the country… if you don’t like it you might want to consider LEAVING the GOP!!
August 24th, 2006 at 1:57 pm#16, then you’d better not hang out with us.
August 24th, 2006 at 1:58 pm#16.
Macaca, nuff said!!!
August 24th, 2006 at 1:59 pmHow often do you run into liberal racists?
I’m not saying it can’t happen, but I would think being racist pretty much disqualifies you as a liberal… That’s just my way of thinking though.
August 24th, 2006 at 1:59 pmThis is not (and I repeat NOT) a issue that is based on politics!!
Comment by repugnican and proud of it — August 24, 2006 @ 1:52 pm
Uh, what planet did you say you were from again?
Ok wiseguy, tell you what.
How much you want to bet right now that this man\women\it is a republican?
Huh?
How much? A sawbuck? How about a yard? Hell lets make it a grand.
August 24th, 2006 at 2:01 pmbut but but according to TONY BLOW
I thought Racism was a thing of the past………………
August 24th, 2006 at 2:02 pmThis is a bad issue, yes. Pointing the finger at the GOP is stupid, since I’m sure there are racist dems too.
This is another tactic. I feel like the MSM is drumming up all the crazyinsane stories it can to avoid the real issues. In case you all didn’t know, violent outbreaks of sectarian fighting is erupting all over the world. Check out BBC news and other sites for once. There are bigger issues going on.
Racism has been around for a long time. We all agree this woman should be prosecuted to the fullest. So it’s a non story. Focus, people, focus. Getting sidetracked dillutes effectivness.
August 24th, 2006 at 2:02 pm23 – You obviously haven’t met those people who are racist within your party then – Louis Farrakhan, the Black Panthers, MEChA, etc.
Racism goes both ways, but in this particular case, it’s even more despicable because it was done to children.
August 24th, 2006 at 2:02 pmTo Ignorant and proud of it -let me break it down for you: Conservatives fear change, and try to impose old orthodoxies on changing circumstance. Liberals embrace change, as the only way to improve humanity’s lot. Someone who fears change (and treating blacks as equals represent a very uncomfortable “change” for most conservatives, who only want to return to the Fifties, a time when “blacks knew their place” to be at the back of the bus) will seek ways of returning (in their minds) to simpler, less ambiguous times, ways like making black schoolkids ride on the back of the bus.
So yes, this is a political issue, unless it makes you uncomfortable . . .
August 24th, 2006 at 2:08 pmlikewise i’m sure :P
August 24th, 2006 at 2:08 pmThis is a bad issue, yes. Pointing the finger at the GOP is stupid, since I’m sure there are racist dems too.
Comment by Ronin Tetsuro — August 24, 2006 @ 2:02 pm
And thats the reason this stuff is allowed to continue.
People who want to “play nice” and not call it as it is.
Liberal mean anti-racisim. It is one of our creeds. Republicans meanwhile elect men like Strohm Thurman, and call them great men.
Thurman of course was as racist a peice of human garbage to ever walk this planet, yet the republicans are always somehow able to “look past all that”. I have plenty of republican and conservative friends and associates. Most of them are racist pigs.
August 24th, 2006 at 2:09 pm#18 – Zeke, Thanks for the props. I’ll admit, however, that I wasn’t thinking exactly the same thing when I made my sexism comment. It didn’t strike me as anti-male to have assumed the bus driver was a man. Rather, I think those commenters that didn’t read the full story assumed the driver was male because “he” is the automatic pronoun in a patriarchical mysogynist society. No one even bothered to use “they”. Yeah it sucks this was a woman – I’d rather blame it on a white man. But it was a woman – shocker! – women can drive buses too. And be racists. There – now we’re really equals, huh? I apologize if I misunderstood your comment, and I’m not even really disagreeing with you. I especially concur with your concept of true feminism. Rock. :)
August 24th, 2006 at 2:09 pmHeh,
“Ignoreant” is spelled “IGNORANT”
August 24th, 2006 at 2:09 pmA racist liberal is an oxymoron. Liberals might have prejudices in certain matters, but racism is anathema.
August 24th, 2006 at 2:12 pmThe GOP in congress praise one another for their bigotry, they are on record as opposing every piece of legislation designed to level the playing field for all Americans, they have become emboldened (smug, arrogant) to the point where little words and catch phrases just slip out of their mouths because with friends in high places, they have relaxed their guard. They don’t feel the need to keep their racist jokes and remarks behind the exclusive club door.
I know I am generalizing here, because not all conservatives or Republicans are racist, but in my experience, every racist and bigot I have known has been a conservative.
Some people like to “appear” erudite in here, talking about how foolish it is to make this a political issue, but the truth is that there isn’t one liberal or progressive out there currently wearing white sheets on there head, and burning crosses on black people lawns.
Not one.
The people doing this stuff ALL equate themselves with “conservative values”.
Thats truth. You know it. I know it. And anyone claiming they don’t know it is either a fool or a liar. Or maybe both.
August 24th, 2006 at 2:13 pmTake a look at the map of the last presidential election — why does the SOUTH vote so heavily republican?
Racism is a very big issue in this country and it is not being properly addressed. It is perhaps one of the most important yet unspoken problems in our country, and it’s a disgrace to us as a nation that we are not more vigorously fighting racism.
Anyone who thinks racism is a thing of the past is only part of the problem.
August 24th, 2006 at 2:17 pmnot all conservatives or Republicans are racist, but in my experience, every racist and bigot I have known has been a conservative.
Comment by Marie — August 24, 2006 @ 2:12 pm
In case you guys missed it the first time.
This is truth.
August 24th, 2006 at 2:17 pmRemember this from last year?
Tyson Foods Sued for Maintaining ‘Whites Only’ Bathroom
August 24th, 2006 at 2:18 pmhttp://talkleft.com/new_archives/012318.html
But that doesn’t mean all people with conservative values are out wearing sheets, anymore than liberal values mean all liberals are out hugging trees, smoking dope, and calling for the assassination of the president.
It is not a political issue.
To the idiot who mentioned Strohm Thurmond. Maybe you need to do some research. He was a Democrat first. Not to mention Robert Byrd.
August 24th, 2006 at 2:18 pm#16 it may not be rooted in politics, but the climate of the day may very well be what incubated it.
August 24th, 2006 at 2:19 pm38 – You obviously have no clue what MEChA is if you think it’s a black organization.
Do you deny that Farrakhan is a racist, anti-Semite, or that the Black Panthers call for the violent deaths of white people?
August 24th, 2006 at 2:20 pm#37 worfeus
August 24th, 2006 at 2:20 pmOf course, you are right – the truth is hard for people to accept when it is so directly points out their flaws.
They know it’s true – we know it’s true – they just won’t/can’t admit it.
All those family values, you know. It makes me sad to think that people like this bus driver are likely bringing up their children with similar blind racism, not to mention the example for the kids on the bus.
We are headed backward in this country and the moron in the White House is leading the way.
If Republicans aren’t racist then why does the KKK always endorse Republicans, (including Ronald Reagan both times)? Coincidence???
August 24th, 2006 at 2:21 pmI’m betting this driver will get nothing more than a slap on the wrist.
August 24th, 2006 at 2:22 pmSo, I take it you are not well versed in history. Do you know what a Southern Democrat is? Did you know that all of the racists left the Democratic party for the Republican party? I don’t want to stereotype here, but you people don’t seem to know anything past Reagan.
August 24th, 2006 at 2:22 pmBlack Panthers call for the violent deaths of white people?
BRAINWASHED – Black Panthers was a movement to EMPOWER black people. Your media and government systematically ruined every one of their LIVES, with LIES, malicious lies, that you obviously ATE RIGHT UP.
August 24th, 2006 at 2:22 pmWhy does it come as a surprise? Just a year ago Bushco made the African-Americans (those that survived) in NO move to the back of the line and the back of the State. How else do you explain that the Blacks are still waiting for help in rebuilding while a White Repug politico (a loser, by the way) gets a new Motor Home, an invitation to the Shite House, and a free pass into DC (where Dems can’t drive Motor Homes) and a photo-op with the chimp-in-charge?
August 24th, 2006 at 2:23 pmThe Strom Thurmonds of the congress WERE racist Democrats at one time, but during the Civil Rights era (when liberalism became popular), they left and formed the Dixiecrats, which became part of the Republican party.
August 24th, 2006 at 2:24 pmUm, “Right” (though a genuine misnomer if ever I saw one), Thurmond bolted from the Democrats long ago (in 1964–right at the height of the civil rights movement, dontcha know) while maintaining his racist attitudes and Robert Byrd had the decency to actually apologize for his earlier racist comments and attitudes.
August 24th, 2006 at 2:26 pmto Clyde the Ripper:
There are good and bad people in every group no matter how you want to divide the people up. As for Bush I did not vote for him in any election. So to continue to continue to lump all Republicans as evil is just wrong. I do not label any group as EVIL. If I do not agree with that group I just do not pay any attention to that group. It does not mean that I would not associate myself with any one from that group.
August 24th, 2006 at 2:32 pmWow, the first remedy was to assign seats with the seats in the back reserved for only black students. The second remedy was to send out a second bus with a black driver.
How about a novel idea. Open seating.Wait, I believe that is the law.
I wonder what George “Macaca” Allen thinks of this? After all, what is a little racism among friends?
August 24th, 2006 at 2:33 pmFor all you clowns who think the bus driver needs to “go to jail”, or be sued, or be beaten up, havent you stopped to think that the cartoon that you have created in your head makes no sense? Why would she arbitrarily send blacks to the back of the bus as a statement of white supremacy? That version of events just makes no sense at all. Here’s the reality: The reality is almost certainly that several of the black kids on the bus were harassing and/or fighting with several of the white kids on the bus, so she seperated the two groups to prevent chaos on the bus and to stop more fighting and harassment. School bus drivers regularly discipline individual children by making them sit apart from their peer group after they have misbehaved. This is just a broader version of the same.
Maybe you clowns calling for the woman to “go to jail” would’ve prefered she not do anything to calm the situation, and let the black boys on that bus continue to harass and attack the white children unimpeded?
August 24th, 2006 at 2:37 pmYo # 16. What political party is in charge of the White House, the Congress and the Judiciary?? Dont you think in your pea-brained little existence that the policies of your party might then have just an inkling of a chance to have something to do with this racism and other forms of retro-thinking that have swollen to the top of the cesspool since Black Saturday, January 20, 2001, when your man – child was first anointed as Resident of the White House?
August 24th, 2006 at 2:39 pmPaging Rosa Parks to the (ahem) white courtesy phone…
August 24th, 2006 at 2:40 pmTrent Lott (R)
August 24th, 2006 at 2:41 pmThis is bad news. But as a black male, I am not suprised by this. All you white people are outragged by this, but black people see it as a continuation of the oppression we are facing in this country. This shit happens everday to us. I do appreiate the “outragged” I am reading about in these comments. More white people like you guys posting here (im only assuming most posters here are white) are desperately needed in the regions of the country that still teach this racial ignorance.
August 24th, 2006 at 2:42 pmWhere did Clyde the Ripper label anybody evil. Racism doesn’t make you evil, it makes you ignorant.
August 24th, 2006 at 2:43 pmMaybe you clowns calling for the woman to “go to jail†would’ve prefered she not do anything to calm the situation, and let the black boys on that bus continue to harass and attack the white children unimpeded?
Comment by lenny — August 24, 2006 @ 2:37 pm
Defending her actions ay?
Gee lenny. Lemme guess. You’re a conservative right?
August 24th, 2006 at 2:44 pmTell me this isn’t true. Hope the black children didn’t pay any attention to the bus driver and decided to sit right behind him. Better yet, I hope the black children and the whilte children shared seats anywhere on the bus. They don’t have to listen to the bus driver about where to sit. What’s the bus driver going to do? Get physical with these children? Looks like there are some white folks that would like to raise Jim Crow from the dead.
Can’t trust those Bush Republicans to do the right thing.
August 24th, 2006 at 2:44 pmFreedom Agenda.
August 24th, 2006 at 2:44 pmFreedom March.
Freedom Fries.
Free Free Free!
Macaca!
What would Jesus say? Get out from behind the steering wheel you bigot.
August 24th, 2006 at 2:45 pm55. Wow – what are you a psychic?
August 24th, 2006 at 2:45 pmPrejudice is a slippery slope my friends. Now it’s acceptable to profile and call Muslims/Arabs terrorists…
August 24th, 2006 at 2:45 pmYou people are making such harsh judgments on this, this is not racism, and neither were the Tyson “whites Only” bathroom, or the guy who was dragged to death behind the car in Texas. You all just don’t understand the south, calling it racism is so ugly and divisive. These people are simply protecting their heritage.
August 24th, 2006 at 2:45 pmShe could have sent the white kids to the back of the bus and this would be a non-issue. But, their is something we liberals call history. It is a series of facts that happened in the past. This history thing has facts in it about black people being forced to the back of buses, because of racism. Therefore somebody who knows about this history thing would steer clear of sending black people to the back of any bus.
August 24th, 2006 at 2:46 pmI just hope the south remembers we beat their asses once.
Don’t make us come down there again.
:|
August 24th, 2006 at 2:48 pmSure, Thurmond switched to the Republican party. I don’t deny that at all. I was just pointing out that using Thurmond as an example of party racism can go both ways.
I am not now, nor have I ever been, a racist. I am a conservative, but I am not a Republican. My parents are both conservative, and yet my father in the 1960’s and 1970’s was a college professor known for supporting equal rights and anti-racism. Being conservative does not mean being racist. Being racist does not mean being conservative. I have received prejudiced treatment at the hands of black people when I worked in Newark NJ. I was discriminated against by a black teacher who voted Democrat. I know it goes both ways. You just choose to ignore the racism rampant in your party, while I acknowledge that racism exists across all walks of life, all political parties.
August 24th, 2006 at 2:48 pm68. Black men were lynched for merely looking at a white woman – and even if they really weren’t. I think of Billie Holiday’s song Strange Fruit -
August 24th, 2006 at 2:48 pmProblem is that we don’t want to go anywhere near those racist bastards.
August 24th, 2006 at 2:49 pmYeah John Lennon was sooo dark skinned. I mean, man was that guy black.
August 24th, 2006 at 2:49 pmTherefore somebody who knows about this history thing would steer clear of sending black people to the back of any bus.
Comment by Spudge_Boy — August 24, 2006 @ 2:46 pm
And someone who doesn’t know about this history shouldn’t be walking around in public, much less driving a bus.
August 24th, 2006 at 2:50 pmThe reality is almost certainly that several of the black kids on the bus were harassing and/or fighting with several of the white kids on the bus,
Comment by lenny — August 24, 2006 @ 2:37 pm
The article makes no mention of anything like that, so this is a product of your own delirious mind. There is no way 5 and 6 year old children can be harrassing older ones riding the bus.
It is disturbing that, without any information to that effect whatsoever, you immediately assume that African-American children are “harrassing and attacking” others. That speaks volumes of your perception of minorities.
August 24th, 2006 at 2:50 pmSure, Thurmond switched to the Republican party. I don’t deny that at all.
Comment by Right — August 24, 2006 @ 2:48 pm
Well thats mighty white of you.
Not denying historical facts and all.
August 24th, 2006 at 2:51 pmWORFEUS,
I was thinking that history should be taught in school. Then I realized it is. So then I think people shouldn’t be allowed to graduate if they don’t have a good comprehension of history. Then I realize that people are supposed to be held back if they don’t. So, why are there so many people that don’t have a concept of history walking around?
August 24th, 2006 at 2:52 pmMy apologies… I should have read the story and not have made the assumption that the bus driver was a “him”. It’s just that this picture of a toothless stubble beared redneck came to mind when I read the summary. That woman should be sued and whipped and put in stocks in the public square with a sign reading “I am an asshole”.
August 24th, 2006 at 2:52 pmBeing conservative does not mean being racist.
Comment by Right — August 24, 2006 @ 2:48 pm
RIGHT.
Being racist does not mean being conservative.
Comment by notso-Right — August 24, 2006 @ 2:48 pm
WRONG.
August 24th, 2006 at 2:53 pmThese people are simply protecting their heritage.
Comment by Mark — August 24, 2006 @ 2:45 pm
That “heritage” also includes the lynching of people solely because of their African ancestry, and the denial of civil rights to people who are not of European descent.
Pray tell, what other aspects of that quaint “heritage” are you willing to defend?
August 24th, 2006 at 2:54 pmExcuse my cynical ass, but this is just like the JB Ramsey story. A paid fall guy does something inflammatory to draw the media’s attention away form the real stories, IE: Judge Taylor’s ruling and the anniversary of Katrina. I believe that both are major smoke screens to blunt or distract from the President’s culpability in a number of fiascos that are unravelling before him and his party. That’s how bad it has gotten. Notice no one was killed, just stooges doing the dirty work.
August 24th, 2006 at 2:55 pm80 – You’re a flaming hypocrite. Seriously. Do you really think Louis Farrakhan is not a racist? Do you really doubt that people who vote Democrat can be racist? If so, then you’re either stupid or have no real life experience.
August 24th, 2006 at 2:55 pm#58
Sen. Christopher Dodd (D):
“It has often been said that the man and the moment come together, I do not think it is an exaggeration at all to say to my friend from West Virginia that he would have been a great senator at any moment. Some were right for the time. Robert C. Byrd, in my view, would have been right at any time … “You would have been right at the founding of this country, right during the Civil War. I cannot think of a single moment in this nation’s 220-plus year history where [Byrd] would not have been a valuable asset to this country.”
Sen. Byrd (D), of course, was a member of the KKK and voted against the Civil Rights Act
August 24th, 2006 at 2:56 pmGregor. I think Mark was doing a Colbert. He was being ironic.
August 24th, 2006 at 2:56 pmDo you really think Louis Farrakhan is not a racist?
Comment by Right — August 24, 2006 @ 2:55 pm
In my screen, I am # 80. What are you talking about?
August 24th, 2006 at 2:57 pmWasn’t it only last month when the southern Senators, e.g., Sessions, said that the South no longer needed special treatment regarding the Voting Rights Act?
August 24th, 2006 at 2:57 pmTo continue, just watch the hang time on this story. It’s in red on Drudge, main stooge for right wing distractions.
August 24th, 2006 at 2:58 pm86 – In my screen 80 was Worfeus.
Implying that racism is only a conservative point of view.
August 24th, 2006 at 2:59 pm#80, Psst Gregor…I’m using sarcasm.
August 24th, 2006 at 2:59 pmSen. Byrd (D), of course, was a member of the KKK and voted against the Civil Rights Act
Comment by exley — August 24, 2006 @ 2:56 pm
Senator Byrd is about as much a democrat as Zell Miller.
August 24th, 2006 at 3:00 pm#55 lenny
Listen troll, there is no mention of fighting among the children on this bus so you are making a assumption which is making an ASS out of yourself.
August 24th, 2006 at 3:00 pm#82 Farrahkhan is nto the issue here. Nice diversion attempt though.
August 24th, 2006 at 3:00 pmMark, Worfeus,
It is really hard to tell when someone is serious and when they’re not. There are so many psychos are there, ready to excuse the worst of the worst (Remember IRI?).
Sometimes I wonder how many nuts like these live in my neighborhood ::shudder::
August 24th, 2006 at 3:02 pmSpudge_Boy – Anyone who remembers their own time on the school bus and who went to school with blacks, knows that black boys tend to like to sit in the back so as to be out of view of the authority figure (driver). So if the black boys on that Louisiana school bus were already disproportionately sitting in the back, as is most certainly the case, it would simply be more practical to have the blacks in the front move back, rather than have three-quarters of the entire bus try to move in opposite directions all at once (which would throw them into alot more direct contact with oneanother, the whole point is to stop the chaos, not to be PC). Also, if there were white kids being victimized, it would make sense to put the whites closer to the authority figure, as it is safer for them.
WORFEUS – To me this has nothing to do with liberal or consverative, it is a common sense and safety issue. I can only assume that someone who is “liberal” is just as much in favor of the safety of schoolkids on the bus as a “conservative”. (If you must know my affi, I voted for John Kerry two years ago even though I didnt really like him. I dont consider myself liberal or conservative, and I dislike the Republican Party more than i dislike the dems)
madashell – I would bet money that the version of events I described was more or less accurate, and the cartoon that “white supremacist bus driver forces blacks to back of bus while wearing white klan hood” is totally wrong.
August 24th, 2006 at 3:03 pmImplying that racism is only a conservative point of view.
Comment by Right — August 24, 2006 @ 2:59 pm
I am not “implying” it Einstein.
I am PROCLAIMING it.
August 24th, 2006 at 3:03 pm#90…Uh huh….And Chris Dodd isn’t a Democrat either, I suppose….
August 24th, 2006 at 3:06 pmThe picture of a white supremacist bus driver wearing a white klan hood never came to mind… I envisioned a skin head with a swastika tatooed on his head. Wrong, it was a stupid uneducated white bitch who wants to return to the days of Jim Crow.
August 24th, 2006 at 3:07 pm#94 – Lenny, you are F’ing dellusional. On what information – aside from your own subjective perception from limited experience – are you basing your “theory” about black boys preferring the back of the bus? Find me a study, cite something. Social research isn’t conducted by a single Republican troll in his elementary days. Shit. If I knew sociology was this easy, I wouldn’t have wasted all that time and money on college. And I’m calling the University to cancel my Graduate enrollment right now.
Shut up.
August 24th, 2006 at 3:08 pmI am not “implying†it Einstein.
I am PROCLAIMING it.
Comment by WORFEUS — August 24, 2006 @ 3:03 pm
Then that makes you stupid. Racism runs rampant all across the world, and I think you’d be hardpressed to consider it a conservative viewpoint elsewhere in the world. For the record: are the French not liberal in nature? Then how do you justify their racism against Muslims?
93 said #82 Farrahkhan is nto the issue here. Nice diversion attempt though.
Comment by Mark — August 24, 2006 @ 3:00 pm
He’s not. The racist bus driver is, but it’s nice how that story immediately takes a political spin and somehow everyone who disagrees with the point of view that racism is not localized to the conservative viewpoint, can be labeled a racist.
August 24th, 2006 at 3:09 pmP.S. Lenny, my bad. I didn’t finish reading #94 before I posted. You’re not a Republican, okay. You’re just an asshat. The above comment (#98) should read “single Asshat troll”, not “Republican”. My deepest apologies…
August 24th, 2006 at 3:10 pm#90…Uh huh….And Chris Dodd isn’t a Democrat either, I suppose….
Comment by excremental— August 24, 2006 @ 3:06 pm
Robert Byrd is no more a democrat than Zell Miller.
PERIOD.
August 24th, 2006 at 3:13 pmDoesn’t this play well to the “base’. It just draws the ACLU and The NAACP , and probably Jessie Jackson , etal right to it. They will be on the news no stop and guess what? People will forget the real victims and the impression we’re left with is the no so nuanced suggestion that Louisiana as a whole is a racist state with problems so we should discount any criticism that is leveled at the government for katrina. I’d give this guy a huge bonus and an envelope to hang with his story and tough out any pending litigation. When you have to say, man the GOP couldn’t have paid for this kind of story then in my opinion , they DID.
August 24th, 2006 at 3:14 pm#99 my take on it is that the right wingers, whether by policy or by rhetoric have been laying the groundwork for events like this to occur. Who does Rush cater to? To my ears he caters to the white victim of black preference (among many others) usually though he caters to white victims of something. He is the gold standard for the very Goebels like publicity machine that the right has going, and it lays the ground work for things like this to happen, of this I have no doubt. Now the Goebels comparison is sure to draw fire, but if you have any sense of history you will find that nearly every ploy used by the right in the propaganda field was used extensively buy Goebels. Granted his was used for a much deeper evil purpose, but they are the same methods nonetheless.
August 24th, 2006 at 3:25 pmRacism runs rampant all across the world, and I think you’d be hardpressed to consider it a conservative viewpoint elsewhere in the world.
Comment by Right — August 24, 2006 @ 3:09 pm
Well you do have a point there.
Maybe if you tried combing your hair over it.
August 24th, 2006 at 3:26 pm#101
So, you have no response to Democrat Chris Dodd saying that former KKK member and anti-Civil Rights Act Robert Byrd would have been right at any time, including during the Civil War?
That’s okay. We understand. I mean, what COULD you say?!
August 24th, 2006 at 3:28 pmWhat could I say?
How about the same thing I say to you?
He can go f$#k himself.
August 24th, 2006 at 3:38 pmI am no major fan of Dodds. He’s another “career politician”, who reminds me of Trent Lott.
Why he endorsed Byrd is his deal, but had he been a Virginia Senator, then he would’ve lost my vote right then and there.
August 24th, 2006 at 3:41 pm105 – Maybe if you tried combing your hair over it.
Not sure what that means. But I still think you’re a f*&king idiot if you think racism is solely evident in only one particular political viewpoint. I’m willing to bet if you spent much time in prison or anywhere outside the United States, you’d come to a different conclusion.
August 24th, 2006 at 3:42 pm105 – Maybe if you tried combing your hair over it.
Not sure what that means
Comment by Right — August 24, 2006 @ 3:42 pm
I know.
:|
Its ok. And it doesn’t mean you’re flawed because you’re a little slow.
You’re just “special”, thats all.
August 24th, 2006 at 3:46 pmI’m willing to bet if you spent much time in prison or
Comment by Right — August 24, 2006 @ 3:42 pm
Speaking from experience are we?
August 24th, 2006 at 3:48 pmWell you do have a point there.
Maybe if you tried combing your hair over it.
That one made me LOL!
August 24th, 2006 at 3:48 pmTo WORFEUS,
There is no way that you can even come close to proclaiming what you are. I know a lot of people who have said very raciest remarks; they are no longer my friends. They claimed to be liberals, dems., republicans and yes even christens and Catholics. So it is not just one party or religion.
So any one who is claiming what you are proclaiming is even more prejudiced.
August 24th, 2006 at 3:50 pmor anywhere outside the United States, you’d come to a different conclusion.
Comment by Right — August 24, 2006 @ 3:42 pm
Ahh, but we’re not talking about anywhere outside of the United States, are we?
But let me see if I have your logic down.
:|
Hmmm….
August 24th, 2006 at 3:50 pmRacism is woven into the very fabric of American culture and lifestyle. This does not surprise me in the least bit. But the more people disgusted by such acts, the brighter the light at the end of the tunnel.
August 24th, 2006 at 3:52 pmTo WORFEUS,
There is no way that you can even come close to proclaiming what you are.
Comment by true american — August 24, 2006 @ 3:50 pm
Sure there is.
Here let me do it again.
BEING CONSERVATIVE DOES NOT MEAN YOU’RE LIKELY A RACIST.
BEING A RACIST DOES MEAN YOU’RE LIKELY A CONSERVATIVE.
There.
See?
I proclaimed it again.
August 24th, 2006 at 3:53 pmOh and BTW, most “True Americans” spell the word “American” with a capital A.
Just out of respect, you know?
August 24th, 2006 at 3:54 pmNow the retarded jokes, eh? So much for tolerance and being socially accepting.
I’ve visited prisons in conjunction with one of the jobs I did for a year – working for the FBI. I’ve also been overseas. I’m Active Duty Navy as an officer. I’ve seen my fair share of racism from all sides of the aisle.
You aren’t exactly the most liberal accepting person, are you? I thought liberals were supposed to be openminded and accepting of multiple viewpoints. Not you though. Somehow you missed that tenet of being a liberal, and went straight to close-minded bigotry and hatespeech, and even stooped so low as to bring in mental retardation as an insult. The only way it could get worse is if you called me an inbred white cracker.
August 24th, 2006 at 3:55 pmI thought liberals were supposed to be openminded and accepting of multiple viewpoints.
Comment by Right — August 24, 2006 @ 3:55 pm
I’m talking to you aren’t I?
Just because I think your viewpoint is a load of horse crap, doesn’t mean I didn’t listen to it.
August 24th, 2006 at 3:57 pmFunny WORFEUS, you changed your proclamation and softened it a lot.
Next thing you’ll soften it even further.
“If you are a white person and are racist against non-whites, then you are likely to be a conservative.”
And you know what? I’d agree with you on that.
“If you are a non-white person and are racist against whites, then you are likely to be a liberal.”
August 24th, 2006 at 3:58 pmI’d also agree with that.
I’m Active Duty Navy as an officer
Comment by Right — August 24, 2006 @ 3:55 pm
Really?
Odd that an “active” duty naval officer during a time of war has time to hang out in a left wing blog.
:|
Could that be why we’re losing the war?
August 24th, 2006 at 3:59 pmThe only way it could get worse is if you called me an inbred white cracker.
Comment by Right — August 24, 2006 @ 3:55 pm
Ok.
You’re an inbred white cracker.
Hows that?
August 24th, 2006 at 4:01 pmI don’t just hang out here. I’m off work, and I surf the web in general. I just chose to post here on this topic because it particularly grates against my nerves because I can’t stand racism any more than you.
Funny, maybe if you had a clue about the military, you’d know that there are a lot more people in support roles than actually pulling triggers.
August 24th, 2006 at 4:02 pmand even stooped so low as to bring in mental retardation as an insult
Comment by Right — August 24, 2006 @ 3:55 pm
Uhh, I’m afraid I’m going to have to call you on that one.
August 24th, 2006 at 4:04 pm122 – Now, why would you call me inbred, white, or cracker? Simply because those are the words I used and because that’s what most liberals think of when they conjure pictures of conservatives in their heads? That marks you out as a racist. But that’s really funny, since I’m none of the above, and yet I am a conservative. Good try though.
August 24th, 2006 at 4:04 pmFunny, maybe if you had a clue about the military, you’d know that there are a lot more people in support roles than actually pulling triggers.
Comment by Right — August 24, 2006 @ 4:02 pm
I have more than a “clue” about the military. I work with them every day.
As for your “support role”, I think we’re looking at it.
August 24th, 2006 at 4:05 pmCall me on what? Are you implying that you didn’t call me retarded and mean it as an insult?
Why, what’s this then?
Its ok. And it doesn’t mean you’re flawed because you’re a little slow.
You’re just “specialâ€, thats all.
Comment by WORFEUS — August 24, 2006 @ 3:46 pm
August 24th, 2006 at 4:05 pm122 – Now, why would you call me inbred, white, or cracker?
Comment by Right — August 24, 2006 @ 4:04 pm
Sorry.
I thought thats what you wanted.
August 24th, 2006 at 4:06 pmWeird, I could have sworn I was white. I always wanted to sit at the back of the bus, so did everybody else I knew. Black white Latino. Everybody wanted the back seat, away from the bus driver. It is one thing to want to be there, it is another to be forced to sit in a particular area.
As I said before, she could have told the white kids to sit in the back, but she chose to ignore history and force the black kids to the back of the bus.
August 24th, 2006 at 4:06 pmDo you now? What does that mean? You aren’t in the military but you work with them. Somehow that means you know more about the military than someone who actually has the balls to serve?
No, my support role has nothing to do with trolling a liberal blog. I’m just bored right now and I’ve already read the news a bunch of times today and there’s nothing on tv right now.
August 24th, 2006 at 4:07 pmIts ok. And it doesn’t mean you’re flawed because you’re a little slow.
You’re just “specialâ€, thats all.
Comment by WORFEUS — August 24, 2006 @ 3:46 pm
Comment by Right — August 24, 2006 @ 4:05 pm
So you’re saying everyone whose slow is mentally handicapped?
Thats retarded.
:|
August 24th, 2006 at 4:07 pmNowhere in the story does it say ANYBODY was being victimized. One of you retarded right wingers made that up and just like a good little follower, you jump in lock step and repeat a made up point.
August 24th, 2006 at 4:07 pmWell, let’s see. Slow is a euphemism for mentally handicapped, which is a euphemism for retarded.
Obviously you don’t care about offending the mentally handicapped. Does that make me a better liberal than you?
August 24th, 2006 at 4:10 pmI’m just bored right now
Comment by Right — August 24, 2006 @ 4:07 pm
Well take a number and get in line.
August 24th, 2006 at 4:10 pmLook, Admiral Halsey?
Listen up.
I don’t believe you about being a Naval Officer. I also don’t believe you’re in here because you’re “just a little bored right now”.
I’ve seen your posts plastered across this blog for the last several days and they do not point to you being a Naval officer, or any other type of officer for that matter.
But I will say this.
If you ARE a Naval officer on so called “active duty”, then we’re in more trouble than I thought.
August 24th, 2006 at 4:14 pmAnd BTW, Spudge is trying to point something out to you that you fail to grasp, so I am going to help you.
Next time you’re on a ship, I’d like you to send all the blacks to the back of it.
Tell them you’re just doing it for “discipline”.
Let me know how that works out for you.
August 24th, 2006 at 4:16 pmSince when? My girlfriend is handicapped and it doesn’t have anything to do with retardation.
August 24th, 2006 at 4:16 pm#99
It may come as a surprise to you but the term “Muslim” refers to a religious sect, not a race. Racism, religious prejudice, and other terms of elitism and separatism are part of the conservative mind-set by definition. It is not necessarily derogatory but the tendency to exclude an exclusive group or groups based of presumed social or intellectual status in an inherent part of conservatism. As a generalization (I know, it isn’t worth a damn) a Conservative’s value judgements are based more on material wealth and worth while a Liberal’s value judgement is based on individual spiritual worth. A simplification, to be sure, but with a little thought you can see the comparison.
To clarify, in Comment #50 I made reference to one group and one individual and did I declare either of them to be evil. I referred to “Bushco,” which, on this Blog has a definitive meaning other that the all encompassing “Republicans” and to one self-admitted republican that ran for office on the Republican and lost. I believe I stated the facts as we know them and merely asked a question or two. Questions, I will admit, that were laced with sarcasm and have no real answers unless you draw your own conclusions as to whom the EVIL parties may be.
August 24th, 2006 at 4:17 pmWell, I guess we’re in more trouble than you thought then.
I check in to TP from time to time to see what kind of crap gets thrown around on this board. It’s nice of you to try to deny and minimize my service, but it doesn’t negate the fact that I do serve, and have been on active duty for over 5 years. But that’s okay, doubt it all you want. It’s your prerogative.
It’s my belief that you are an idiot who touts the party line and doesn’t think for himself. Especially if you really think racism is only evident in one political party. That means that your limited world view needs some serious awakening, or else you just need to open your eyes once in awhile.
Spudge- nice of you to crop a quote to pull it out of context. Try again. Mentally handicapped is a euphemism for retarded.
And why on earth would I order black sailors to the back of the boat for discipline? I’m not the one Spudge is arguing with about that. I have no sympathy for the bus driver at all, and I certainly don’t subscribe to the made up scenario that some apologist right wing nut created to justify the bus driver’s racist actions. Keep your arguments straight.
August 24th, 2006 at 4:27 pmYou are right, I missed “mentally”. My bad.
See we can admit when we are wrong. Too bad you can’t.
August 24th, 2006 at 4:32 pm“I do serve, and have been on active duty for over 5 years. ”
And what does that mean, that you are a prophet for god? Thank you for supporting state corporate imperialism!!!!!!
August 24th, 2006 at 4:37 pmI check in to TP from time to time to see what kind of crap gets thrown around on this board.
Comment by Right — August 24, 2006 @ 4:27 pm
Really? From “time-to-time”?
Funny how every time I “check in” you are also “checking in”.
Cause anyone perusing the last several days threads will find you “checked in” a hell of a lot.
August 24th, 2006 at 4:37 pmWhat am I wrong about? Am I wrong to say that racism is not only present in conservatives? If you think I’m wrong about that, then you truly lead a sheltered life where your viewpoints don’t get challenged often.
August 24th, 2006 at 4:38 pmCourse I may have been a bit hard on you today.
You did after all only object to the statement about racists being conservatives only, and I don’t see any defense of the actions here. I did merge your argument with proud to be republican so for that I apologize.
And if I didn’t have this sneaking suspicion that you are really the ousted I-RiGHT-I here “in-COG-nEATO”, then I might be more inclined to believe you.
Perhaps you could share with us your MOS?
Certainly that would not give anything identifiable away.
August 24th, 2006 at 4:40 pmReally? From “time-to-time�
Funny how every time I “check in†you are also “checking inâ€.
Cause anyone perusing the last several days threads will find you “checked in†a hell of a lot.
Comment by WORFEUS — August 24, 2006 @ 4:37 pm
I’ve posted in one other thread in the last three days, and that was about Pat Buchanan. Before that, I hadn’t visited TP since July.
August 24th, 2006 at 4:40 pmI’m a surface warfare officer.
I don’t know who I-RiGHT-I is, but that’s okay because they sound like a bible thumping fundamentalist.
Like I said, I’m a conservative – of the George Will variety. I don’t particularly like W either. He’s too fiscally loose, and he brings religion in too much, and I don’t agree with the erosion of civil liberties.
August 24th, 2006 at 4:42 pmI’m a surface warfare officer.
Comment by Right — August 24, 2006 @ 4:42 pm
That is not the correct response to a request for an MOS.
Isn’t there something else you want to add to that?
August 24th, 2006 at 4:45 pmJust checking in…Good Afternoon all……..First let me submit. In many history classes across our great nation mentioning black and native american history is almost non existant….Their contributions have been deleted or totaly left out…….Unjust, unfair and void of truth…..
Next this story is disgusting, after all the work we did trying to get equal right’s we have come to this….Katrina and the huge losses by this administration were an eye opener and a reminder many of our people are still discrimanated against…..Sadly I had forgotten how bad it was untill this reminder. I was of the impression once we had gotten the right’s they were working….Not so, even to today….More shame on us…Who ever this person is, and I don’t care male, female, right or left wing they should go to jail for violating these childrens civil right’s and sued as well.
Lastly, Don’t you all think this is part of the shock a day untill they get their way, promoted by rove and this bunch….I do…They are going to do every thing they can to win the next 2 election’s and beyond………Here’s the scary part….Our people are going to be used and abused. All the time we pay attention be aware of what is happening behind the scenes. Keep in mind those concentration camps are up, built and ready to go for our residence if we loose the next 2 elections…..Nearly all here will have to wear the gold paper star over their heart showing you are against this bunch of crazies….They will most likely put me in their ovens first….Please stop the in fighting and mean spirited attitudes…..Join together and put these murderious basterd on all sides out of office before it is to late.
If you want this madness to change, call or email you’re representatives. Tell them you will fire them if they don’t speak up and vote the way they should, for our constitution, people and country……Blessings..Peace for all the children
August 24th, 2006 at 4:45 pmLike I said, I’m a conservative – of the George Will variety. I don’t particularly like W either. He’s too fiscally loose, and he brings religion in too much, and I don’t agree with the erosion of civil liberties.
Comment by Right — August 24, 2006 @ 4:42 pm
Well you sound ok.
If the MOS answer had been different I’d be apologizing right now.
August 24th, 2006 at 4:46 pmI don’t know who I-RiGHT-I is, but that’s okay because they sound like a bible thumping fundamentalist.
Comment by Right — August 24, 2006 @ 4:42 pm
You mean as opposed to just calling yourself “Right”?
August 24th, 2006 at 4:48 pmWell, the Navy doesn’t HAVE an MOS for officers. My area of expertise is surface warfare. The Navy enlisted don’t have MOS’s either. They have Ratings and Enlisted designators. Officers have designators too, which I suppose you could compare to an MOS, but they aren’t really the same. Regardless, my designator is 1110 – Active Duty Surface Warfare Officer.
August 24th, 2006 at 4:49 pmWell, it used to say Libertarian, but somebody was pissed that I took the name. I pick Right because my viewpoints are typically right of center.
August 24th, 2006 at 4:50 pmI used to be a 19-D is that what you want for MOS? My buddies in my unit were all the 11 Charlies.
August 24th, 2006 at 4:50 pmOk.
Thats more like it.
Sorry I doubted you.
You seem ok for a whitey righty.
August 24th, 2006 at 4:51 pmWell, like I said, I’m not white either.
Nice to see that after some honest debate the rhetoric tones down some.
August 24th, 2006 at 4:54 pmBut you’re still wrong, Right.
August 24th, 2006 at 4:57 pmI can’t believe that you are still calling black people ‘african americans.’
August 24th, 2006 at 5:01 pmMay I point out….All color’s are necessary for a beautiful painting, also a great country….Blessings…..Peace
August 24th, 2006 at 5:04 pmNow, let me turn my attention on the more deserving.
The reality is almost certainly that several of the black kids on the bus were harassing and/or fighting with several of the white kids on the bus,
Comment by lenny — August 24, 2006 @ 2:37 pm
Lenny. You’re the one my venom towards the undeserving Right was intended to be directed towards.
You are defending the driver, making up an argument, and as Spudge pointed out, immediately assuming the black kids were picking on the whites is ridiculous.
If you actually read the article from the Shreveport times you’d have seen that this was NOT a one time incident, but apparently has been ongoing with the driver, Ms Davis and there was even some sort of intervention where she was asked to assign seats, and she still put the black kids at the back of the bus, forcing them to all share 2 seats.
You’re theory is thus refuted.
August 24th, 2006 at 5:38 pmFrom the Shreveport Times
August 24th, 2006 at 5:40 pmThe “new solution” is a twist TP didn’t mention.
The “new solution” sounds like segregation to me.
August 24th, 2006 at 5:41 pmBy Golly, I finally found the exception that proves the rule. As a child I asked my father why there were so many people named Davis. My father pointed out that in the beginning everybody was named Davis and as people messed up God changed their name. It seems there is a Ms. Davis in Louisiana due for an immediate name change.
August 24th, 2006 at 5:53 pmI am sure these kids won’t remember any of this, and won’t hold anything against “Whitey” or “cracker” for the rest of their lives. And I am sure the white kids witnessing this would never consider this to be ok, right?
August 24th, 2006 at 5:56 pm#23: The GOP is the party preferred by racists around the country, and if you don’t like it you may want to consider leaving the GOP.
Is there a minumum standard of intelligence to comment on these threads? This is the most illogical statement I have ever heard in my life. If you like chocolate ice cream, and the majority of racists in the country like chocolate ice cream too…..you had better start eating vanilla? Is that the conclusion I am to reach from this? If so, thanks for the enlightenment.
August 24th, 2006 at 6:23 pmWelcome to 1957! If you want to return back to 2006, we’ll have to fix our flux capacitor.
Oh…and drive the Reich Wing out of office.
August 24th, 2006 at 6:30 pmThere seems to be a lot of anger displayed toward people who have posted here and suggested the woman bus driver is obviously republican because of her racism. This, in my opinion, is part of the fallout of the Bush administration. Bush and so many republican politicians have given republicans a bad name. It’s not inconceivable to equate racism or bigotry with republicans. Look at how Bush, his republican cohorts and the radical religious right (Bush’s “base”) have gone after gay people with such zeal and bloodlust. At every turn, this administration and its supporters have not only called for discrimination against gays, but have also tried to amend this country’s constitution in order to actively discriminate against gay people and make us second class citizens in this country. It has gone on now since 2000 – 6 years of well-documented, shameless bigotry on the books. Is it such a leap then to think that bigotry and racism are hallmarks of the republican party? I don’t think it is. Good republicans, and no doubt there are many, are the ones now who will need to do the hard work in order to change people’s perceptions of the republican party. Denouncing the Bush administration OUT LOUD is a great way to start. The culture of silence republicans have practiced where Bush is concerned needs to stop.
August 24th, 2006 at 6:46 pmYup.
August 24th, 2006 at 6:48 pmRob.
Thats crap.
She never said you were racist if you belonged to the GOP.
She said its the party PREFERRED by racists.
And thats true.
August 24th, 2006 at 6:48 pmA new solution reached Monday by School Board officials has a black bus driver driving across town to pick up the nine black children.
August 24th, 2006 at 6:50 pmThis is a solution? Not replacing the driver? But having another driver add the nine to his/her route? Will this be a bus of all black children? Doesn’t that sound like segregation? Didn’t we go through this in the 50’s?
I find that in most TP threads today, there is evidence that we, as a society, are traveling backward.
I know the president is a stupid frat boy, in far over his head, and I know that the nation is being run by neo-fascists bent on destroying our Constitution, but do our citizens and the school boards have to follow suit, and travel back in time?
When did the U-turn occur – I suspect it was sometime in late 2000.
counting down the seconds til jesse jackson and the “reverend al sharpton come running in to stir up some shit and collect some money from dem evil white folk. those poor little picaninnies.
August 24th, 2006 at 7:00 pmWell if they do it would be one time when they’d be right, red.
August 24th, 2006 at 7:04 pmUm, what year did that driver think it was??
That’d be Perfect if he’s a registered Republican…
August 24th, 2006 at 7:12 pmpoor little negroes .. tsk tsk had to ride on the back of the bus where they belong.. and now all you good negro loving liberals will be sure to come to aid their poor opressed asses. you leftards make me sick. this is whay you get for your stupid forced diversity bullcrap.
August 24th, 2006 at 7:18 pmreddog must not have to attend the KKK meeting tonight – his hood is in the laundry.
August 24th, 2006 at 7:21 pmStupid Reddogs suck buttermilk through a straw…….reich winged troll.
August 24th, 2006 at 7:22 pmNew solution?final solution? hmmmm
August 24th, 2006 at 7:22 pmpoor little picaninnies.. gotta have the limp wristed white liberal idiots protect them.
August 24th, 2006 at 7:30 pmReddog, as it turns out, you do not “rule.” I see that, in yet another name incarnation, your bigotry and hate remain steadfast. I thought your anti-gay stance was disgusting, but the anti-black comments are truly vile. It’s sad to see that this sort of prejudice is still part of the fabric of this country.
August 24th, 2006 at 7:33 pmGay Bear,……….Reddog is nothing more than a neonazi skin head child……He collects small checks to match his man hood, must leave nasty remarks to qualify for a paultry position in his tiny group………I don’t usualy wish people bad but this time I will make an exception…..I hope he gets corpal tunnell in both wrists……..Blessings
August 24th, 2006 at 7:49 pmSharon, you’re curse is entirely too kind! Blessings to you too. I enjoy reading your comments.
August 24th, 2006 at 8:05 pmYour not you’re.
August 24th, 2006 at 8:05 pmHey reddog,
August 24th, 2006 at 8:27 pmCongrats on you being another one eye-browed, basement dwelling mouth breather of the neo-nazi GOP. You must really drool over your Karl Rove blow up doll.
Dito and back at ya Gay Bear……Blessings…..Can I hope the little turd left this site.
August 24th, 2006 at 8:27 pmtoday’s top story: poor little niglets forced to back of bus.. liberal white race traitors rush to their defense. poor little niglets…..
August 24th, 2006 at 8:35 pmNow I don’t think reddog rules really is that much of a dick, he likely enjoys pressing “prog buttons” by posting his shit.
August 24th, 2006 at 8:44 pmreddog rules is acctually a pegger of Rove by heart.
August 24th, 2006 at 8:49 pmReddogs are trolls working for soft hands, no neck, bloated old white men that have never served and use American soldiers to do their dirty work. Reddogs are small soft men like rove/cheney/bush and rummy…They get their kicks paying neonazi kids to pollute our sites with their slim and hate, they must be left to play with themselves as no one else want’s them…..With age they shrivel up to nothing because of their hate and bitterness…I will take my own advice and no longer respond to the tiny little trolls…
August 24th, 2006 at 8:53 pmOk, I haven’t read the comments yet, so forgive me if this has already been said —
What the F*ck is Wrong With That Woman?
NAACP is “considering” filing charges? Considering?
She hasn’t been fired?
Whaaaa?
August 24th, 2006 at 9:35 pmFirst of all this is very racist which alas has happened all too often. And I very much think our country is flying backward in time.
Second of all, why the heck do southern kids prefer the front? Where I’m from everyone likes the back (Except me, I always sit first seat). Most people consider it a privledge to sit in the back.
August 24th, 2006 at 9:37 pm#174
Sharon,
The way I heard it was that he sucked swamp water and didn’t need a straw, which would have been a difficult task since he is obviously tighter than a bull’s ass in fly time. But leave him alone because his alligator mouth has long ago overloaded his hummingbird ass.
August 24th, 2006 at 9:37 pmJust to continue the evening similie seranade. He is happier than a dead pig under a new wagon and is luckier than a two peckered billy (pet)goat in breeding season.
August 24th, 2006 at 9:40 pmHi Clyde,
I thought I saw your poetic words. You seem to be quite on fire this evening.
August 24th, 2006 at 9:42 pmHey, Zooey,
It’s half time and the Carolina Panthers are having some Ya-all’s ami (they ain’t Miami!) for dinner. Things seemed a bit dull so I thought I would do my Flip Wilson bit for True. Besides it is way down on the list and the tolerance level goes out the window past comment 175. We are safe tonight!
Have a good one!
August 24th, 2006 at 9:50 pmMost people consider it a privledge to sit in the back.
Comment by Jake3988 — August 24, 2006 @ 9:37 pm
Tell that to Rosa Parks.
August 24th, 2006 at 10:03 pmwelcome to tonight’s episode of poor little niglets and the whining politcally correct liberals that are their self appointed defenders. Hey liberal morons- have you not heard yet- the negroes can take care of themselves- they don’t need you liberal ass to help them. liberal morons
August 24th, 2006 at 10:07 pmNo, I think its more like welcome to tonights meeting of the local Shreveport Klu Clucks Klan defense league.
Holding a fundraiser tonight are we?
August 24th, 2006 at 10:12 pmthe negroes can take care of themselves
Comment by reddog fool — August 24, 2006 @ 10:07 pm
I’m sure they can take care of you.
August 24th, 2006 at 10:13 pmpoor little niglets
Comment by reddog fool — August 24, 2006 @ 10:07 pm
Nice.
Your parents must be very proud.
August 24th, 2006 at 10:22 pmDid you know that the meanest animal on Earth is an alligator with a head on both ends? “If he has a head on both ends how do he shit?” Reddog asks. He don’t, that’s what makes him so mean.
Did you know that the dumbest animal on earth is an alligator with an ass on both ends? “If he has an ass on both ends how do he think?” Reddog asks. He don’t, that’s why they call him Reddog.
August 24th, 2006 at 10:28 pmClyde,
You just won an Emmy for the best troll put-down of the year!
August 24th, 2006 at 10:33 pmBravo Clyde, good job getting rid of the little reich winged num nut troll….Blessings
August 24th, 2006 at 10:42 pmLeave it to Clyde…SNAP!!
August 24th, 2006 at 10:43 pmOdd as it may seem we still today have such ‘bunker’ racists promoted by such folks as limbaugh and coulter. These people, the Rushdoonies, in effect, wish to turn back the clock to the days of General Lee and the Duke boys..Marey Carey, maybe Kat Harris, being Daisy Duke.
George, of course, would be Roscoe P. Coaltrain and Cheney would be Boss Hogg.
August 24th, 2006 at 11:04 pmQ.. Q.. Q..=]
Don’t worry Suka.
When people finally figure out what Rush Limpbaugh was doing frequenting the Dominican Republic with a pocket full of viagra, his career will be over.
August 24th, 2006 at 11:14 pmTrinary Suka,
You forgot about The Duke Of Dubai!
Just click on Clyde nd scroll down a bit. It is too late to move it up for you.
August 24th, 2006 at 11:14 pmHere is another version of what happened on that bus. For those prejudiced twits who insisted that the black children were harassing and attacking the white kids.
From ABC News -sorry, the spam filter won’t let me post the link:
[...]they previously had a black bus driver, but their bus assignment changed this year. When school started this month, the white driver told them she had assigned them seats, with the black children at the back of the bus.
Richmond said she complained to a local principal, who told the driver that if any children were assigned to seats, all would have to be.
Early last week, the driver assigned black students to two seats in the back of the bus, Richmond said.
La. mom: Black kids sent to back of bus
The black kids were assigned to the back for no reason, in only two seats, even after their families complained. This was no “oops!” moment -that driver knew what she was doing.
August 25th, 2006 at 12:54 amI read the comments and i find the initial protests that “Republicans are not racist” to be about as hollow as Bush’s head. They start out protesting the accusation, but soon lapse into the most disgusting racist diatribes. Trolls, go home! All the nasty bigotry you spew on us daily will never change the mindset of the liberals on this site. Go stew in your anger somewhere else.
August 25th, 2006 at 10:05 am#167 she never said you were racist if you belonged to the GOP
I didn’t say she claimed that. She did say that the GOP is preferred by racists, and if you don’t like it you should leave the GOP. My comparison was that if chocolate ice cream is preferred by racists, she is saying I should choose to stop eating it even though I like it. Thanks for trying to rewrite my comment for me though, and, no it is not crap.
August 25th, 2006 at 12:25 pmThe driver was wrong. Bottom line. If you make a mistake at your job, do you get fired, or do they counsel you, and write it up in your folder? If they have enough drivers, I say let her go. If they are short, then write her up, counsel her.
BTW, letting the most racist group in America, the NAACP start investigating this is as stupid as letting the KKK investigate this.
FIX IT!
August 25th, 2006 at 12:48 pmthe liberals come running to help the poor opressed little bus niglets. you libs are right- the poor negroes cannot get by without your help. they just are not smart enough to help themselves. you libs are the heroes of the negroes.
August 25th, 2006 at 5:26 pm210 — Here’s an interesting game for you to play: Take the new name you’re posting under, and say it out loud to yourself three times. It’s fun! Try it!
August 25th, 2006 at 6:38 pmLiberals are idiots. elephantsonthemarch.blogspot.com
August 28th, 2006 at 8:27 pm