Showing posts with label Paris Texas.. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Paris Texas.. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Shaquanda Cotton's Protesters.

Rickey Smiley and other supporters of Shaquanda Cotton rallied for her release. Despite the rain, a crowd of on 350 strong turnout in Shaquanda Cotton behalf.

However cries of racism, has been attack as the mother, Creola Cotton, just playing games.

Dennis Eichelbaum, an attorney for the Paris school district, said the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights has vindicated the district by finding no evidence of discrimination in three cases the agency has closed. Five other investigations remain open.

Eichelbaum said Creola Cotton is preventing the district from fairly defending itself by refusing to let the school district make her daughter's entire records public.

"Mrs. Cotton has been wrongfully attacking the character of the district," Eichelbaum said. "She's being disingenuous with regard to her daughter being an innocent child."

"She's playing a game," the attorney said.


Really now.. and what game is that?

That's not what the people of Paris Texas are saying.

Local residents responding to a civil rights rally outside the Lamar County Courthouse on Tuesday were in one accord — saying love and justice for all needs to prevail in Paris, Texas.

They said public protests are necessary and most problems are with the school system and law enforcement.