Racism, bigotry and discrimination have been completely eliminated in the United States of America. There is no more racial injustice to be found. Because when the FBI is summoned to a small town in Louisiana to investigate an allegation of a school bus driver making black children ride in the back of the bus, there must be no serious instances of race-related problems left.

I’ll spare you all the specific details of this preposterous situation. I can sum up what happened, based on numerous news reports, in one sentence: a white female veteran school bus driver told some black students who were some of the last ones to get on the school bus and were new students to take a couple of seats in the back.

That’s all in takes in 2006 America for all hell to break loose.

When word got back to some of the parents that the children were told to sit in the back of the bus, they went ballistic. Demands were made for the bus driver to be fired. The NAACP came riding into town, and Al Sharpton’s organization, never wanting to be left out of a good racial brawl, wound up smack dab in the middle of the mess.

The Justice Department was notified, and now the FBI, evidently running out of murders, rapes and kidnaping cases to investigate, began interviewing all the participants to find out if the children’s civil rights were violated.

I’m sure it will just be a matter of days before the multi-million dollar lawsuits are filed.

Evidently, a lot has changed since I went to school on a yellow bus. Back then, only the cool kids rode in the back. After all, those were the coveted seats, the ones farthest away from the driver and the place where the most fun could take place.

I suppose there is the possibility that the school bus driver, a 20 year veteran of ferrying children of all races to school each weekday, was simply pining away for the days of racial segregation and just suddenly decided that blacks should drink out of particular drinking fountains again, enter restaurants through different entrances, and begin riding in the back of the bus once more.

But I highly doubt it.

The more likely scenario is that the woman, who is said to be absolutely devastated by the allegation, doesn’t view children as white, black or Hispanic. She sees kids as kids, children of all races that she has carefully and safely driven to and from school for two decades. Continued...