VIDEO: Students told not to speak Obama's name

By GottaLaff

School officials at a Mississippi junior high school threatened to discipline students for speaking the name of president-elect Barack Obama.

WAPT reported:

Reporters with 16 WAPT News received several calls from upset parents that said a school bus driver told the children on a Pearl school bus that if they said Obama'€™s name, they would be written up and taken to the principal's office for disciplinary reasons.

Another parent said that a coach at Pearl Junior High School told students that if they speak Obama's name, they would face expulsion.

In a separate incident, a girl's basketball coach at Pearl Junior High School told students they would be suspended for saying Obama's name.

This video is from WAPT.com, broadcast November 7, 2008.

Those must be the "real" Americans Wardrobe Barbie was talking about.