I am *officially* scared for this country.

[conuly]

I mean, if it's not black children being told not to sit on the back of the bus, then it's black people being told they're not welcome in a church anymore.

Or it's a hundred thousand other things that are telling me that maybe, just maybe, it's time to pack a bag. Pity I have obligations here. And no passport. I should really get on that last one, shouldn't I?

Comments

[neurotica0.livejournal.com]

"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."

Don't you mean "black children being told to sit on the back of the bus" then? I mean, it hardly matters where they're being told they must sit if the point is to segregate them, but they both bring different reasonings to mind.

To clarify

[neurotica0.livejournal.com]

Before clicking the link, when I thought that some black children had been asked not to sit at the back of the bus, what came to mind that there was a slight possibility that this wasn't racially motivated at all and instead two (or however many) specific children had gotten in trouble and then been asked to sit in the front. Because that's how it worked on my bus (though the school was 99% white, so there was almost no way for that to be racially motivated). I try to give people the benefit of the doubt before I've heard the story.

But upon hearing that they were directed to the back of the bus, well there can't really be any logical reasoning behind that.

another one for your ocollection...

[xmorningxrosex.livejournal.com]

well, you could try out your swimming skills if you don't have a passport...

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/25/rush-limbaugh/


*jumps off balcony*

[threeoranges.livejournal.com]

*slack-jawed* A church... VOTED... on who could be a member? That poor boy.

Please apply for that passport. Can't hurt.

[conuly]

Well, it's complicated.

Basically, I don't have all the points of ID required for a state ID. Now, the rules are only as good as the people who enforce them, so I'm sure there is a way around that if you're good at talking to people, but I'm not. And as I don't even, at the moment, have a birth certificate... yeah.

But I can renew my passport. My really *old*, childhood passport. All I need to do is bring a holder of a valid ID who knows me to verify that I am who I say I am, and my old passport. With that and a little talking (maybe bring two people who know me, and ideally look like me), I should get a new passport easy.

And with my passport, I'll have the required points of ID for my state ID (well, except for the birth certificate, which none of us has bothered checking if it survived Katrina) so I can get that, which is all I really wanted in the first damn place.

Unfortunately, nobody in my family currently holds a valid form of ID. So I have to wait for a Jewish holiday, so both my mom and my sister can get state IDs (my mom wants a proper driver's license), and then I have to wait for *another* Jewish holiday so they can go with me to the post office to get my passport renewed.

None of this stuff, apparently, can be done on the weekend. That would make sense. (I'm sure it can, somewhere, but there's no way any of us is giving up our precious weekend time for this - we've got stuff that needs doing then. Like laundry. And sleep.)

[fjorab-teke.livejournal.com]

If Bill Frist SOMEHOW gets elected, or if this Bush + TN government thing gets even worse, I may tag along with you. I've been threatening to move out of the countery too, even though now with my true love in the US Army it would make things even more difficult for me to do now. But...DANG. We're SUPPOSED to be a progressive country, right? Pfft WRONG apparently! *grumbles bitterly*

[neurotica0.livejournal.com]

"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."

Don't you mean "black children being told to sit on the back of the bus" then? I mean, it hardly matters where they're being told they must sit if the point is to segregate them, but they both bring different reasonings to mind.

To clarify

[neurotica0.livejournal.com]

Before clicking the link, when I thought that some black children had been asked not to sit at the back of the bus, what came to mind that there was a slight possibility that this wasn't racially motivated at all and instead two (or however many) specific children had gotten in trouble and then been asked to sit in the front. Because that's how it worked on my bus (though the school was 99% white, so there was almost no way for that to be racially motivated). I try to give people the benefit of the doubt before I've heard the story.

But upon hearing that they were directed to the back of the bus, well there can't really be any logical reasoning behind that.

another one for your ocollection...

[xmorningxrosex.livejournal.com]

well, you could try out your swimming skills if you don't have a passport...

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/25/rush-limbaugh/


*jumps off balcony*

[threeoranges.livejournal.com]

*slack-jawed* A church... VOTED... on who could be a member? That poor boy.

Please apply for that passport. Can't hurt.

[conuly]

Well, it's complicated.

Basically, I don't have all the points of ID required for a state ID. Now, the rules are only as good as the people who enforce them, so I'm sure there is a way around that if you're good at talking to people, but I'm not. And as I don't even, at the moment, have a birth certificate... yeah.

But I can renew my passport. My really *old*, childhood passport. All I need to do is bring a holder of a valid ID who knows me to verify that I am who I say I am, and my old passport. With that and a little talking (maybe bring two people who know me, and ideally look like me), I should get a new passport easy.

And with my passport, I'll have the required points of ID for my state ID (well, except for the birth certificate, which none of us has bothered checking if it survived Katrina) so I can get that, which is all I really wanted in the first damn place.

Unfortunately, nobody in my family currently holds a valid form of ID. So I have to wait for a Jewish holiday, so both my mom and my sister can get state IDs (my mom wants a proper driver's license), and then I have to wait for *another* Jewish holiday so they can go with me to the post office to get my passport renewed.

None of this stuff, apparently, can be done on the weekend. That would make sense. (I'm sure it can, somewhere, but there's no way any of us is giving up our precious weekend time for this - we've got stuff that needs doing then. Like laundry. And sleep.)

[fjorab-teke.livejournal.com]

If Bill Frist SOMEHOW gets elected, or if this Bush + TN government thing gets even worse, I may tag along with you. I've been threatening to move out of the countery too, even though now with my true love in the US Army it would make things even more difficult for me to do now. But...DANG. We're SUPPOSED to be a progressive country, right? Pfft WRONG apparently! *grumbles bitterly*