Monday, November 24th, 2008
What they really mean by “Affirmative Action for conservatives in academia”
Doop-dee-doop*, checkin’ t3h Internetz:
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.
"They feel like they afraid to say who our president is, cause they afraid they going to be in trouble," Reginald’s mother Canishia told WAPT. "We teach our kids not to be racist, and here it is going on. I just feel hurt by it."
Yep. Conservatives sure have a hard time getting jobs in academia thanks to that vast left-wing academonazi conspiracy.
* With apologies to the fine folks at Sadly, No!
