* Shame on Mississippi.
MSNBC:
The school board in Nettleton, Miss., voted Friday to reverse its policy under which race determined whether a candidate could run for class positions, including president.
According to a memo sent home with students last week, African-American students could not run for class president in Nettleton Middle School this school year. However, the board voted at an emergency session Friday to drop that policy, according to Craig Ford, a reporter with the NBC News affiliate WTVA, who attended the meeting.According to the district's statement, the practice had been in use for more than 30 years with whites and blacks rotating among offices annually...
It took 30 years for someone to speak against this racist school policy.
* Here is a new ad put up by the Democratic Governors after the Republican Governors went after Gov. Ted Strickland's congressional votes on trade (h/t Plunderbund):