Georgia Teens Fight for Racially Integrated Prom, Because It's 2013

[Joe Republic]

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[Likely Voter]

This must be from the Onion because we have been told that institutional racism, and specifically institutional racism in the South, doesn't exist anymore.

[Warren 4 Secretary of Everything]

What. The. Fock

[RogueBeaver]

Please tell me this is an Onion joke.

[Old Man Svensson]

...I have no words.

[Goldwater]

Please tell me this is an Onion joke.

[Lambsbread]

dammit Georgia

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

When I went to high school, my high school still had semi-segregated proms.  I say semi-segregated in that while we had a white prom and a black prom, there were a few blacks at the white prom and presumably vice versa.  They remained because of tradition and because as private affairs there weren't any chaperones to keep drinking and other undesirable behavior from happening.  There were some students who were embarrassed by this, but they were outnumbered by those who wanted to party hearty.

However that was in the early '80s, before MADD and SADD had become as notable as they later became.

[tmthforu94]

They're not even the only ones down there who still do it. That makes it even worse.

[old timey villain]

The people keeping this "tradition" alive in Wilcox County should be constantly shamed and criticized until they get their s**t together. I live in Georgia. I love my state and I love the people here. We're not all horrible racists, but I am horribly embarrassed by this. While I hate to see this community deal with such negative attention, I still want to see every reporter in the country down in Wilcox interviewing the people responsible and forcing them to explain to the rest of America why this is still acceptable in 2013. They'll probably change their minds real quick after a few days of that.

The rural south has a strange relationship with the rest of America, deeply insecure and desperately seeking widespread acceptance yet steadfastly clinging to an antiquated set of values in the name of pride. Once again the rest of the country will have to drag the south into modern times kicking and screaming.

[H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY]

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[Indy Texas]

Every spring, we get to hear about some podunk town in Dixie doing away with separate-but-equal proms like 70 years too late. I'm sure there are enough segregated proms still going on in LA, MS, AL and GA that we'll continue to hear these stories for another couple of decades.

[TNF]

that feel when 2013 and still feels like 1953 in some parts of the south

[7,052,770]

This is more common that people realize.  I highly doubt that people of only race are forbidden to go to each other's proms.  It's just that each group has always done it this way, and each group wants to keep it this way.

I'm not defending it, but the fauxrage in this thread is just a little too thick.

[Yank2133]

Damn.......

[Sbane]

This is more common that people realize.  I highly doubt that people of only race are forbidden to go to each other's proms. 

The article makes it clear this is exactly what is happening. In the Huffington Post article, they mention police being called if someone of the "wrong" race showing up.

BTW, do Hispanics and Asians have their own prom?

[King]

BTW, do Hispanics and Asians have their own prom?

They used to, but the white parents are now inviting them to the white prom in hopes of expanding the Republican base.

[memphis]

They're doing it wrong.  The white people are supposed to set up a seperate Christian "academy" for their kids to attend instead of the public schools. That way Prom can be just as white as in Minnesota and nobody writes unkind blogts about it.

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This is more common that people realize.  I highly doubt that people of only race are forbidden to go to each other's proms. 

The article makes it clear this is exactly what is happening. In the Huffington Post article, they mention police being called if someone of the "wrong" race showing up.

BTW, do Hispanics and Asians have their own prom?

Hispanics, Asians, Pacific Islanders, Native Americans, Indians,  Aborigines, and mixed raced people do not exist.

[7,052,770]

This is more common that people realize.  I highly doubt that people of only race are forbidden to go to each other's proms. 

The article makes it clear this is exactly what is happening. In the Huffington Post article, they mention police being called if someone of the "wrong" race showing up.

BTW, do Hispanics and Asians have their own prom?

Hispanics, Asians, Pacific Islanders, Native Americans, Indians,  Aborigines, and mixed raced people do not exist.

In the rural South, they generally do not.  It is what it is.

[DC Al Fine]

This is more common that people realize.  I highly doubt that people of only race are forbidden to go to each other's proms. 

The article makes it clear this is exactly what is happening. In the Huffington Post article, they mention police being called if someone of the "wrong" race showing up.

BTW, do Hispanics and Asians have their own prom?

Hispanics, Asians, Pacific Islanders, Native Americans, Indians,  Aborigines, and mixed raced people do not exist.

The vibrant Aborigine community is pissed that their kids are excluded from Rural Backwater High's prom

[Sbane]

BTW, do Hispanics and Asians have their own prom?

They used to, but the white parents are now inviting them to the white prom in hopes of expanding the Republican base.

lol

[Marokai Backbeat]

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My reaction as well.

[old timey villain]

They're doing it wrong.  The white people are supposed to set up a seperate Christian "academy" for their kids to attend instead of the public schools. That way Prom can be just as white as in Minnesota and nobody writes unkind blogts about it.

Bingo. It's not surprising how many private schools popped up in the south in the late 60's and early 70s, including one near my hometown called The Heritage School. Hmmm.....I wonder what kind of heritage they were thinking of...

[Smash255]

This is utterly absurd, and the saddest thing is, it isn't that surprising.