This is what the heroes of Hurricane Rita had to go through, driving school buses loaded with black people chosen for photo op purposes (to be seen getting evacuated via yellow school bus out of the Houston area). Beaumont Enterprise:
As they sat outside on folding chairs [in Dallas at the Reunion Arena], having a smoke, they described seeing people on their front lawns glaring at them with shotguns in hand, and pickup trucks with nooses hanging in back (most of the bus passengers were black).The drivers said whenever they tried to stop to rest or let their passengers use the restroom, town officials had court orders waiting for them to get out of town, an assertion those town officials later denied.
Driver Toni Soularie, 49, said she nearly had a violent confrontation when she pulled into a rest area.
“This officer said he was going to shoot me if I didn’t get back on the bus,” she said. “At that point I was prepared to let him shoot me. I had this invalid on the bus who was already embarrassed because she urinated all over herself. And I was not going to let her embarrass herself again. We just got off.
“But the officer stayed right there with me – made sure we were going to get back on.”
Some things never change in the Town that Shot Kennedy.
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