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Oy: COUSHATTA — Nine black children attending Red River Elementary School were directed last week to the back of the school bus by a white driver who designated the front seats for white children. The situation has outraged relatives of the black children who have filed a complaint with school officials.

Took them long enough: BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) – More than half a century after U.S. civil rights icon Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white man, the Alabama legislature on Tuesday voted to pardon her and others convicted for breaking segregation-era race laws. The "Rosa Parks Act," approved unanimously by the state House of Representatives … Read More

Erika Thereian is blonde and sports a California tan.  When playing online in Second Life, her avatar is a Pamela Anderson look-alike. But for a lark, she recently remodelled her skin so that she looked more like Serena Williams, and spent three months in the digital world that way: Some of her friends shied away, she believes. Then there were … Read More

In his post about the thinly-veiled racism underyling the conservative outrage about the King funeral, Digby channels the right wing (slightly editted for clarity sake): Fuck the blacks. They don’t vote for us anyway. But then, there’s always some good reason to fuck the blacks isn’t there? Hiring minorities is a problem because: 1955 – They are an inferior race1965 … Read More

Wingnuts are indignant at the fact that the funeral for Coretta Scott King was "marred" by politics, virtually ignoring the fact that King herself (even after her husband’s death) was an outspoken leader on political and social issues, including her opposition to the Iraq War. The photo at the right is when Rev. Lowry talks about poverty and finding no … Read More

That’s my advice.  First of all, you’ve got this whole "intelligent design" thing that they’re trying to foist into the school curriculum. Now there’s this, a kid gets suspended from school for speaking Spanish: Kansas City, Kan., resident Lorenzo Rubio is upset that his son, Zach, was suspended from the Turner School District’s Endeaver School for two days. He is … Read More

…that Rosa Parks stayed sat in that bus seat.  New York is doing something very nice: On Metropolitan Transportation Authority buses in New York City and Long Island, the seat behind the driver will be symbolically reserved for the late Parks, whose act of disobedience and subsequent arrest prompted a bus boycott and proved a major turning point in the … Read More

Pictured: Rosa Parks being booked. There’s not much to say about Rosa Parks that hasn’t already been said.  Many admire her for being the catalyst for an idealistic, peaceful movement for racial equality. But we like her because she was pissed, and simply said "Enough is enough".  It was a small gesture — one that has been repeated again and … Read More

This, from Pandagon, really hurts to read: "We’re proud of being white, we want to keep being white. We want our people to stay white … we don’t want to just be, you know, a big muddle. We just want to preserve our race." — Thirteen-year-old Lynx Gaede, who, with her sister Lamb, are white nationalist singing group "Prussian Blue" … Read More