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WHAT THE h*** IS THE POLICE DOING ABOUT THIS?
Where is the bus driver? Has he been fired?

I have also taught in an large city public school where the majority of the student body was African-American but my experience was a bit different than the narrative link you provided. On the whole I found the narrative very stereotypically racist and offensive; HOWEVER, I will admit to you that there were some elements of truth to it.
To me, the problem is socio-economic class structure—whether it black or white students involved. Where there was parental involvement, strong spiritual guidance and nurture the black students I taught were very good ones. The girls weren't “fat” or constantly “seeking sex” and the boys weren't disrespectful juvenile trouble makers or gang members. The trouble was that they the ones resembling Steve Irkle were often dominated by bullies (usually the athletic jocks) and so were the girls.
I once had a bright young student named “Linda” and her Wexler must have been off the chart. I was teaching a freshman social studies class on world history (the Enlightenment) and she could actually anticipate the questions I was going to ask. Whether it was Harvey's discovery of blood circulation, Delacroix's paintings of the French Revolution, Diderot's encyclopedia, she knew the history behind it. However, she purposely failed the tests I would give. I called her aside one afternoon and asked her about the marks she made and she began crying...she told me “terrible things can go on in the girl's bathroom if you're acting ‘white!” I told her mother about it and she immediately withdrew her from school and got a scholarship to an Episcopal private school here in Virginia. (I bumped into her mom the other day in the grocery store and learned that Linda is in her second year of med school now.)
IMHO, many good African-American students fall prey to peers much the same way that many conservative college students do to liberal professors when they get to the university level. Just as conservative students are apprehensive about rocking the boat in class, the good African-American just wants to fit in. And who can blame them?
I also would like to point out that the lower class white student—the ones that look like they stuck their face in a tackle box and have more ink on their skin than they do in their ballpoint pens, are just as bad as the ‘hood black rapster and, in many cases, even worse!

The Police are trying to prevent a riot, so they changed their story and say it was not racially motivated. Although everyday, the blacks on the bus won’t let this white kid sit on the bus. What do you expect from animals!