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Eugene

(62,748 posts) Tue Oct 11, 2022, 12:28 PM Oct 2022

North Carolina HBCU leader 'outraged' after bus of Black students stopped in SC

Source: News & Observer

North Carolina HBCU leader ‘outraged’ after bus of Black students stopped in SC

BY COLLEEN HAMMOND
UPDATED OCTOBER 11, 2022 1:20 PM

The president of Shaw University is speaking out after what she called an “unfair and unjust” traffic stop involving students of the historically Black university.

On Monday, Shaw President Paulette Dillard released a statement saying students from the university in Raleigh were subjected to a racially motivated police encounter on a South Carolina highway while traveling to a conference.

Last Wednesday, 18 students and two advisers were traveling by bus from Raleigh to Atlanta to attend the Center for Financial Advancement Conference, according to Dillard’s statement.

While driving through Spartanburg County, South Carolina, the bus was stopped for a “minor traffic violation,” Dillard said in the statement.

Multiple officers and drug-sniffing dogs then boarded the bus and began searching the students and advisers, she continued.

“To be clear, nothing illegal was discovered in this search by South Carolina law enforcement officers,” Dillard said.

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Read more: https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/education/article267147976.html

Non-paywalled link: https://www.yahoo.com/news/outraged-hbcu-leader-reacts-bus-150018619.html

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North Carolina HBCU leader 'outraged' after bus of Black students stopped in SC (Original Post) Eugene Oct 2022 OP

SCOTUS declared racism is over yankee87 Oct 2022 #1

I remember that! 90-percent Oct 2022 #10

South Carolina cops are mainly racist assholes LetMyPeopleVote Oct 2022 #2

Pure racism out in the open. 2naSalit Oct 2022 #3

Well there you go folks. We might have Baitball Blogger Oct 2022 #4

Sunset or Sundown towns will make a comeback. Eliot Rosewater Oct 2022 #5

Sundowner siren in Minden, Nevada cbabe Oct 2022 #8

Didn't this happen to another bus a little while back? Karadeniz Oct 2022 #6

Yes, in Georgia last May. Eugene Oct 2022 #9

Shithole cops with nothing better to do. The Unmitigated Gall Oct 2022 #7

Minor traffic stop for bus, i.e., for the bus driver, not students. Racial profiling, plain as day. iluvtennis Oct 2022 #11

yankee87

(2,365 posts)

1. SCOTUS declared racism is over

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Tue Oct 11, 2022, 12:33 PM

Oct 2022

According to SCOTUS, in gutting the Civil Rights Voting Act, stated racism is over. So according to their logic, this was a legitimate traffic stop. I feel so sorry for what these students went through. Condolences and sue the freaking county for everything it has.

90-percent

(6,909 posts)

10. I remember that!

Reply to yankee87 (Reply #1)

Tue Oct 11, 2022, 02:21 PM

Oct 2022

Bad memory, but I think around 2006-2008 John Roberts ruled; (in so many words) Since racism in the USA is a thing of the pasts, there's many parts off the Voting Rights Act (1965?) that are no longer needed. Shortly, or immediately, Republican racists changed the laws/rules in their states to immediately suppress the votes of minorities and college students and any demographic that may lean Democratic.

SC has been moving the goal line since the ludicrous Bush v. Gore ruling of around 2000. Stunk so bad they put into it that it should never be used as a legal precedent. The SC is not on the side of the people or Democracy itself. But, to be fair, they are totally ga-ga over 26th Century Catholic religious doctrine and totalitarian fascism.

-90% Jimmy

LetMyPeopleVote

(155,300 posts)

2. South Carolina cops are mainly racist assholes

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Tue Oct 11, 2022, 12:34 PM

Oct 2022

2naSalit

(93,201 posts)

3. Pure racism out in the open.

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Tue Oct 11, 2022, 12:41 PM

Oct 2022

Feeling a lot like pre-1964 these days.

Baitball Blogger

(48,358 posts)

4. Well there you go folks. We might have

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Tue Oct 11, 2022, 12:48 PM

Oct 2022

Stumbled into a counter for the immigrant busing. Get volunteer minorities and reporting crews to take Bus tours of the racist communities And expose this nonsense until the ACLU can establish a court case.

Eliot Rosewater

(32,537 posts)

5. Sunset or Sundown towns will make a comeback.

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Tue Oct 11, 2022, 12:54 PM

Oct 2022

America is broken.

cbabe

(4,269 posts)

8. Sundowner siren in Minden, Nevada

Reply to Eliot Rosewater (Reply #5)

Tue Oct 11, 2022, 01:43 PM

Oct 2022

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