The governor of Louisiana compares the issues of state prominence and preeminence to those of the civil rights movement. He states that Louisiana does not want to be made to "sit at the back of the bus" like "Negros" were made to do before Martin Luther King, Jr. came along. He also addresses issues of numerical balancing of school students by race and the "second-rate" status Louisiana and other southern states encounter in Washington, D.C. He is highly critical of the federal government telling Louisiana to bus its children to school in order to achieve certain racial quotas. He points to the hypocrisy of New York passing laws forbidding such actions and how the legislators in DC have their children in all-white schools in the DC suburbs in Maryland and Virginia.