From the VOMITORIUM

You may think that all is well in the South….but it is not and yes there is still racism….some of it hidden and some of it not so much…..

Mississippi has the most obese citizens, one of the worse educational systems, most poverty and that is not all…….

ABC News has an interesting report…….

Students at a Mississippi public middle school looking to run for class president this year need to maintain a B average, obtain 10 signatures from their classmates – and be white.

At Nettleton Middle School, students last week received the rules for the upcoming student government elections. Students could run for president, vice president, secretary-treasurer and reporter, but some positions were off-limits depending on race.

In all three grades, only white students can run for president. In eighth grade black students can run for vice president and reporter. In seventh grade blacks can only run for secretary-treasurer, and in sixth grade only for reporter.

There are no assigned positions for students of other races and no mention of students who are mixed race.

Please do NOT tell me that things are better in the South…there is still lots of the ugliness of the past there….so, you tell me how far Mississippi has come in the last 50 years…..

UpDate:  The school board has handled this situation…..and has done the right thing by saying that the papers were invalid…..but my question is….would they have done anything if it had not made it to the media?  Best guess is….NOPE!