Obama's Name Banned for Mississippi School Children After Election

So far the freedom of speech and the upholding of the US constitution by Republicans. That's exactly the reason I fear those fundamentalists freaks and then people dare to call me, a Muslim, a fundamentalist?

Right wing people dont have proper brains. Pity them, they are probably inbred with deformed body parts

Great story you collected here. Someone looks mad about politics.

So sad that children were involved as this unhappy pair react to the election results. No doubt the children were all a-buzz with the news and the bus driver and coach couldn't stand it. I pray that festering racism won't go further than this.

Sad, that!  They (the driver and coach) were disciplined, but the children's joy is forever tarnished.

This is not made up by any means. I am in Georgia and my son and his classmates have experienced the exact same thing! They are being told by teachers & coaches that they do not want to hear anything about this black man taking over the presidency. This is unconstitutional and I as a tax paying parent will nto stand for it. If I have to get Al Sharpen,Jesse Jackson, all the news teams out here to put this nonsense on blast, I will with the support and help from all the other angry upset parents. They should embrace that our children are even paying attenetion to this election instead of making them feel they are doing and saying soemthing wrong! Let's ban together AGAIN,because we did it before to get him elected to get these racist people out of our school system!!!!!!

some kids where my children attend school took it a little too far by making racial comments like " So now look who's the boss" and "Who's in the White House now. my kids were alright with Obama, but not with the racial way his win is being touted. several altercations broke out between students because of this.  I believe that this teacher and bus driver were probably trying to keep altercations at bay by telling them not to say his name, especially if they were doing it in a taunting way

I would demand they be fired on the spot or face a LAW SUIT!!!! You don't frighten children with such PETTY non-sense!!!!!

YES WE CAN-YES WE DID!!

Having lived in Mississippi, I can tell you that this story is quite real.  Many people do not put certain banners, etc. in their yards or on their cars for fear of reprisal.  It happens all the time.

Whatever happened to freedom of speech in this country.  Since when is a child told not to say the President's name.  What is wrong with the adults in this country that they act like spoiled children who cannot stand when they have not gotten their way.  No wonder this country has been in the shape it is in.  How dare adults destroy the innocence of a child.  As a mother and grandmother, this just makes me sick to hear something like this.

DOES ANYONE NEED THIS INFORMATION?

MISSISSIPPI BOARD OF EDUCATION

Mr. William Harold Jones, Chair
Term expires July, 2017
At-Large Representative
P. O. Box 282
Petal, MS 39465
Office: 601-545-8324
Fax: 601-545-8389
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Mr. Charles McClelland, Vice-Chair
Term expires July, 2010
At-Large Representative
6252 Winthrop Circle
Jackson, MS 39206
Ph: 601-366-9499
 

Sounds to me like Pearl, MS has just laid the ground work for some nasty law suits that most deffinitly coming it's way. I hope the national news media gets ahold of this and rips them apart.

The real sad part here is there are educators that are teaching this rubbish. The state should remove them from teaching ever again. This is the poison that has destroyed this nation.

It's pretty difficult to prevent such mean-spirited, racial and prejudiced comments erupting from those adults in Pearl, Mississippi, against President-Elect Obama when national radio talk show hosts like Rush Limbaugh are on the airwaves on a daily basis, calling our newly-elected President and his recently chosen Chief of Staff "mafia-connected" and insinuating that Obama's supposed connection with Ayers and others will result in crooked and underhanded government tactics during the next four years!!  Excuse me, but isn't that exactly what's been going on for the last eight years??? That statement just floored me when i heard it the day after the election, and I immediately turned him off -- Sadly, it is ironic that Limbaugh has chosen to continue his harassment and disdain for Obama, stirring up more trouble and feeding already-narrow-minded individuals' minds more lies and innuendoes that only serve to widen the rift between the majority of American voters and the so-called Moral Majority right-wing nuts and religious fanatics who seem to relish and support his sick viewpoints. I truly believe Limbaugh's program should be cancelled as being detrimental to the national security of our nation! It is thinking such as his which has produced citizens who feel they have the God-given right to foist their self-righteous beliefs on the rest of us who do NOT feel the same way. And THEY are the ones who are going around calling themselves Christians and fundamentalist evangelicals?? Those actions are certainly not definitive of a true Christian based on the Bible I read on a regular basis!

The Constitution's provisions for freedom of speech have been totally breached by the last eight years of Republican tyranny, greed and self-centeredness that have become hallmarks of the Bush Administration. As the saying goes, "Freedom of speech does not stoop to allow a person to yell "Fire!" in a crowded theater for no reason," and the American people, through their historic vote casting on Nov. 4 to reject McCain/Palin's fanatical religious views and policies also embraced by President Bush, have boldly stated, "No more! It's time for a change in the way American government operates!"

It's really sad to realize that grown men and women such as those in Mississippi feel justified in their tiresome tirade and use their religious convictions to hide behind, especially at a time when the United States of America needs them the MOST to pull together as one great nation to solve our common problems and unite in our desire to see this country healed of its many open wounds inflicted upon it by President Bush and his cronies in the White House. My prayers continue for them, that God will heal their embittered, racially biased hearts, and help them to see that their anger and fear of anything or anybody who's different from them is anything but Christian. The Lord and Saviour they profess to love and have living inside of them took meals with publicans and sinners, the lowlifes of that time period, and instructed his followers to "love one another, even as I have loved you . . " Love doesn't make people tell their children they're not allowed to speak their new President's name or they will be ostracized, hate and racial prejudice does!!