{"id":8292,"date":"2006-08-25T09:10:04","date_gmt":"2006-08-25T13:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/8292.html"},"modified":"2006-08-25T09:10:04","modified_gmt":"2006-08-25T13:10:04","slug":"back-of-the-bus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/back-of-the-bus\/","title":{"rendered":"Back of the bus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shreveporttimes.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20060824\/NEWS01\/608240332\/1002\/NEWS\">Simply stunning<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nine [tag]black[\/tag] children attending Red River Elementary School [in Coushatta, La.] were directed last week to the [tag]back[\/tag] of the school [tag]bus[\/tag] by a white driver who designated the front [tag]seats[\/tag] for [tag]white[\/tag] children.<\/p>\n<p>After [two families] filed complaints with the School Board, Transportation Supervisor Jerry Carlisle asked Davis to make seat assignments for her passengers, Sessoms said. &#8220;But she still assigned the black children to the back of the bus,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p>And the nine children had to share only two seats, meaning the older children had to hold the younger ones in their laps.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In 2006. In the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The driver was forcing black children to sit in the back of the bus, and when asked to correct the problem, the same driver assigned seats &#8212; forcing more black children to sit in the back of the bus.<\/p>\n<p>As of this morning, the school district has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/14505545\/\">suspended the bus driver<\/a> while it investigates the situation. The NAACP is considering filing a formal charge with the Justice Department.<\/p>\n<p>Noted NAACP District Vice President James Panell, &#8220;We fought that battle 50 years ago, and we won. Why is this happening again?&#8221; It&#8217;s a question that deserves an answer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simply stunning. Nine [tag]black[\/tag] children attending Red River Elementary School [in Coushatta, La.] were directed last week to the [tag]back[\/tag] of the school [tag]bus[\/tag] by a white driver who designated the front [tag]seats[\/tag] for [tag]white[\/tag] children. After [two families] filed complaints with the School Board, Transportation Supervisor Jerry Carlisle asked Davis to make seat assignments [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}