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Jerome Bus Driver Article Review

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For my local current event news review, I read an article titled “Jerome Bus Driver Fired after Incident in Facebook Video”. I found this article on the KTVB website. It was written by author Dean Johnson and published at 10:13 PM on September 3rd, 2016. The article describes the reasoning for the recent firing of Mary Black, a Northside Bus Company bus driver in Jerome, Idaho. The issue that this article describes would be most closely related to the subject of culture. On Saturday, September 3rd, the Northside Bus Company in Jerome, ID confirmed to KTVB that bus driver, Mary Black, had been fired from their company. Black was fired after a video posted on Facebook displayed a confrontation between Black and a student on the bus. The student involved was eighth grader, Miguel Martinez. Black suspected Martinez of throwing a water bottle on the bus. As punishment, Black tried to take Martinez’ phone away, but, when unable to accomplish that, she decided to pour the water from the thrown water bottle onto Martinez. Black also demanded that Martinez only speak to her in English, not his native tongue of Spanish. Black can be heard on video saying, “I don’t understand Spanish. I’m not going to learn it. I live in America and it’s an English-speaking country. So if you want to …show more content…

Black’s racist comments caught on video seem to portray Idaho as a state that is not very accepting of cultural diversity. Considering the fact that many people already find Idaho to be lacking in diversity, this incident certainly does not help our reputation. From this event, those in Idaho and beyond should learn to be more accepting of people who speak different languages or practice different cultures than we are used to. Everyone deserves to be treated equally, and hopefully the outcome of this incident- Black being fired- can make more people realize

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