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KamaAina

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30. Mississippi basically did just that.

Wed Feb 18, 2015, 05:45 PM

Feb 2015

Nearly all white kids in Mississippi attend private "segregation academies", while the public schools are pretty much left to those kids , and (surprise!) are woefully underfunded.

Ironically, at least one segregation academy has accepted a black student -- because they wanted him on the football team!

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What a baby. nt cyberswede Feb 2015 #1

And definitely not the New Year's type. William769 Feb 2015 #6

What an ignorant bigotted pig. eom MohRokTah Feb 2015 #2

Can we abolish him entirely geomon666 Feb 2015 #3

This sounds a lot like legislating from the bench which I thought right wingers hated. LonePirate Feb 2015 #4

This is what you get when judges only need an Alabama high school diploma to be a judge. Fred Sanders Feb 2015 #5

I have a GED guillaumeb Feb 2015 #33

In Alabama, step right up sir. Who needs law school to be a lawyer, or judge , anyway? Fred Sanders Feb 2015 #37

and I believe that the President guillaumeb Feb 2015 #41

as a pure matter of law, what he actually said isn't all that surprising onenote Feb 2015 #42

His means to the end goes directly through the Bible. Fred Sanders Feb 2015 #43

Oh goody! pipi_k Feb 2015 #7

What an idiot. Manifestor_of_Light Feb 2015 #8

Bigots don't think further than the end of their nose. tammywammy Feb 2015 #16

The baby Jesus cries when the Gubberment forces people to live in sin. nt onehandle Feb 2015 #9

It always frightens me that we have such raving lunatics in positions of power. n/t patricia92243 Feb 2015 #10

+1 cyberswede Feb 2015 #12

And damn it, if we're going to allow Negroes to sit wherever they want in a theater TlalocW Feb 2015 #11

They actually did this with public swimming pools. Iggo Feb 2015 #23

Haters would be funny, if the consequences were so tragic. aikoaiko Feb 2015 #13

Their new state slogan... lame54 Feb 2015 #14

All those holier than thou will be living in sin! tammywammy Feb 2015 #17

Or better still, "Alabama Is For Lovers" KamaAina Feb 2015 #29

Go for it. Daemonaquila Feb 2015 #15

Remember when Alabama tried to abolish public schools to avoid desegregating? Kurska Feb 2015 #18

Mississippi basically did just that. KamaAina Feb 2015 #30

That's true in a lot of places in north Miss., LuvNewcastle Feb 2015 #38

And you guys have almost all the casino money KamaAina Feb 2015 #40

Yeah, good luck with that, Bumpkin. Aristus Feb 2015 #19

"No state shall pass any Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts" NYC Liberal Feb 2015 #20

Hate when you liberals always try guillaumeb Feb 2015 #35

Try it, I dare you. Initech Feb 2015 #21

Hoo-ray, Alabama!!! Iggo Feb 2015 #22

The people in OK Runningdawg Feb 2015 #24

KKKarl Rove and his band of crooks got many of these neanderthals their jobs years ago. Elwood P Dowd Feb 2015 #25

He's going to take his ball and go home! JoePhilly Feb 2015 #26

why exactly did Lincoln want to keep guillaumeb Feb 2015 #27

what a nutcase! chillfactor Feb 2015 #28

Finally after all these years I understand mythology Feb 2015 #31

I know, why not take that a bit further. louis-t Feb 2015 #32

Go for it and see how that works out for ya. TheKentuckian Feb 2015 #34

america has some big-ass problems...this asshole is one of them spanone Feb 2015 #36

The dying gasps of bigots. bullwinkle428 Feb 2015 #39