Local NAACP chapter wants US Justice Department to visit Marion ISD

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Updated: 5/03/2012 6:39 am
MARION, Texas--The local chapter of the NAACP has been in contact with the US Justice department in regards to Marion ISD.

"They are willing to come down and do diversity training for Marion ISD, but to date they have not been able to get an in road into Marion", said Elmer Williams with the NAACP local chapter.

Williams has been working with an African American family and their teen daughter who found a noose and racist note near her car at Marion High School back in February.

The family has filed another grievance with the school district, and the NAACP is calling for more to be done.

According to Williams things have not gotten better since the incident. "What's happening to the family now is that the children have been impacted negatively, " added Williams.

The matter is now in the hands of Marion School Board members who are scheduled to hear the grievance on May 30th, after the school year is over.

According to Marion ISD superintendent Mario Sotello, the board was ready to hear the grievance back in late March, but the family rescheduled.

The NAACP told News 4 WOAI the district didn't give enough notice.

As for the US Justice Department coming into the District, the superintendent said he's not opposed, but the decision would be left up to the school board.

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cuzican - 10/21/2012 6:55 PM
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@tcheatha - after reading thru all these comments and you being sooo close to the investigation, you posted in May and its now October and NOTHING?! News is indicating that the FBI stopped the investigation at the request of the family?! We would love to hear what was discovered!!!

Baven2 - 5/6/2012 10:42 AM
5 Votes
Well isn't this the kind of imbecile this country has working in government, exhibit A. He thinks his job is more difficult and beyond the comprehension of private citizens how classic. He states whites aren't racially attacked, even though there are cases of it happening every day. He is even threatening to "slaughter" whites if need be, but yet the point is not to eliminate whites, wow. You have some latent rage issues and I hope you get them addressed before you end up on the evening news. Psychopath.

Texasbosshawg - 5/6/2012 12:06 AM
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Baven2-Your so misled little fella. I work department of defense and what i see on a daily basis is beyond your comprehension and the Windex that your making at your job is irrelevant to me because i would be one of the ones who delivers it to where it needs to go. All you need to know is that their is no need for NAACP to come to the aide of a white child harassed because the system is already set up for your defense. NAACP wouldn't need to exist if the world didnt have the bigots that it does. True bigotry crosses all color lines, but being that Whites are the Majority in the USA they pose the biggest threat and problem. As for your making decisions for my menial existence..thats fine but you prove my other point. You learned nothing from history..You can try to poison us, and you only succeed in poisoning your own, you can try to drug us and we turn around and sale it to your own, you can out right attack us and get slaughtered, either way. Trying to do anything other then what is right will only blow up in your face as it always has. Minorities are not going anywhere. The point is not to eradicate Whites as you all have tried to do to so many other races, rather to get you to understand you are not God and dont have the ability to determine who is fit to live in this world and whose not. As i have said, there a millions of great Caucasians, but its the small percent that hold this supremacist mentality that is the danger to anything that has color, and that and anything that resembles it is what i cant stand and will continue to fight against. Sad thing is when people of color go to get jobs, they are sitting across from people just like you and think just like you and that is where the problem lies, but it will change as all things do, but unlike your people we are not trying to enslave the white race as you all have attempted to do around the globe. "So Mote it Be!"

Baven2 - 5/5/2012 10:46 PM
5 Votes
Well yes, unlike liberal peasants under their lords control, I didn't ask permission to raise a family. Sorry that my freedom and independence intruded on your master planned utopia. Anyway, I'm a Chemical Engineer who makes decisions affecting your menial existence every day. From your posts, you aren't equivalent to the delivery I just made on my toilet. And if this kid at Marion was racially herassed without provocation, then there's a problem. But I don't see the NAACP caring when a white child is racially herassed by blacks either.

Texasbosshawg - 5/5/2012 10:09 PM
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Baven2-How unfortunate that you were allowed to reproduce..I am assuming that you are referring to Eugenics! A decision that Caucasians took upon themselves to sterilize groups of people that they felt were unworthy to exist! hmm i am sure you are the perfect person to teach your children with your GANG mentality!! Liberal, Moderate, Republican, Democrat they are all the same, Gangs and looking out for numero uno!! This young girl has a right to go to school and not be harassed by trailer trash of any color. That is the bottom line.. And i am sure if this happened to any one of your children you would be reacting the same way. It is instinct to want to protect your child and if your cries for help are going unanswered then its only logical to take your pleas to the next level and to where some one can make sure your pleas are heard beyond the borders of your own city. You could never make a decision for a mass anything because you dont have the mental ability to do such. I would suggest to you that next time grown folks are talking just shut the hell up!

tcheatha - 5/5/2012 5:13 PM
2 Votes
Oh and @Donoho: Countless investigations have been conducted to find the culprit, school video recordings were not turned over by the district, recordings of meetings were not provided to the family, so after countless efforts and legal intervention; the NAACP became involved. If you are not getting anywhere in rectifying the situation, then there is a need to take it to the next level and seek assistance.

tcheatha - 5/5/2012 4:51 PM
2 Votes
Wow....@Donoho: To say that blacks are not disproportionately represented at a higher rate in the criminal justice system in comparison to their White counterparts reflects that you are living under a pillow. I have done countless research along with esteemed professors in the field, and worked as a counselor in a prison years ago. I can attest that African-Americans were sentenced more harshly than their White counterparts 50 percent of the time for the same crimes; with Hispanics following behind in second. Yet African-Americans make up about approximately 13% of the population. As far as I'm concerned, you have missed the point. I laugh as I respond to your very “ignorant” and weak attempt to address the facts appropriately and logically. You love your "colonizers" who stripped you of your lands, it’s plain to see. In the 1980s, your people were sterilized in an effort to regulate the growth of Native Americans. Yet, when you see an innocent Black child antagonized, harassed daily and most importantly; a victim of a hate crime; all you can focus on is bull crap. You would think one oppressed group would want justice served in regards to a child from from "another" oppressed group being victimized. I want to say other things, but I'd feel less of a person even stooping so low as to deviate from my usual professionalism for a person that has no merit in my life. I JUST CAN’T WAIT TILL THE MEDIA GETS THE REAL STORY AFTER THE FBI FINISHES CONDUCTING THEIR INVESTIGATION. MY MAIN FOCUS IS ON A CHILD WHO HAS BEEN TRAUMATIZED BY THIS EXPERIENCE OBVIOUSLY, AND THE TRUTH IS ALWAYS UNVEILED IN THE END.

Baven2 - 5/5/2012 1:52 PM
4 Votes
Oh I have bad news for you then. I have three children already, and they're just as white as I am. I'm even teaching them to be proud to be white, which I know is racist to a liberal but thankfully I don't give a rats ass. Oh, I'm glad you hate half of who you are, it really sounds like it pains you every day. Meanwhile, I'll continue to make big decisions for the masses, which I'll do starting next work week just for you.

Texasbosshawg - 5/5/2012 10:58 AM
2 Votes
Baven2- The entire world knows that to be a lie and you didnt believe it when you typed it.. Bar none the most destructive and most violent race on the planet. Everything you have touched you have corrupted and manipulated. Although my blood is mixed i would never hold that side in high regard for the simple fact that you cant heal if you dont think you have a problem and that is what ticks me off about that part of my blood line..There are millions of great White people and i think the majority are good but the ones who call themselves making decisions for the masses are the ones that i have a problem with..Baven2 you should kill yourself and spare the world the misfortune of your sperm contaminating the gene pool!

Baven2 - 5/4/2012 11:01 PM
6 Votes
As a group, blacks are the biggest bunch of monolithic racists in this country, bar none. Let me think of a good example, oh ya, Barack Hussein Obama.
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