Florida schoolbus racism scandal

[PsychoDad]

It's a crime that this should happen to any children.

Florida schoolbus racism scandal
By Lawrence Smallman
Monday 03 November 2003, 2:20 Makka Time, 23:20 GMT


A school bus service in Florida has refused to carry Iraqi and Afghani refugee students for a second time in a week.


Some 27 students aged between 10 and 14 were abandoned outside Jacksonville last Wednesday, over eight miles away from home.

A substitute Duval County school bus driver – “Mrs Boston” – singled out hijab-wearing girls and “foreign-looking” boys, ordering them to get out.

More here:
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/0A3D3E55-E513-4BE1-B8E0-729B44723787.htm

[bluestateguy]

1. Ah! The virtues of privatization...

eom

[madrchsod]

2. since they can`t throw

blacks off the bus anymore , i guess they figure they can do it now to the iraqi and afghani kids..i wonder what the insurance company would think if the kids would have gotten hurt.

[booksenkatz]

3. Anyone who has lived in Jax

(as I did for 8 years) will find this story oh-so-familiar. What a racist, backwards bunch of people running things there! If you are not a WASP in North Florida, woe unto you. I left Florida for Michigan in 1995, it's sad to see that things haven't changed in all these years. I hate to paint with a broad brush, but man, Jax is something else. Remember what happened there in Nov. 2000 in the African-American precincts?

Jeebus.

[TahitiNut]

4. duplicate

See http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=196491

I'm locking this thread. Interested DUers are welcome to continue discussing this in the referenced thread.

Thank you for your understanding and cooperation,
TahitiNut - DU moderator

[Bozola]

5. Story Confirmed.

United States of Assholes.






http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20031102/APN/311020606

ACLU joins Islamic group urging Jacksonville bus investigation

The Associated Press

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. --

The American Civil Liberties Union joined an Islamic group in urging an investigation of two incidents in which about 20 Muslim students were allegedly removed from a Duval County school bus and not allowed to board another.

ACLU officials said Saturday they were backing the Council on American-Islamic Relations' request. They allege that two different First Student bus drivers singled out Muslim students Wednesday and again Friday.