Some schools in the South finally to have racially integrated proms

The year is still 2013, right? Not 1963?

Racial integration? In MY South?

Apparently, before now, it was less likely than you'd think.

Hell, even my school had integrated proms..

And they had their "Who's who"*

Well, that's disorienting. I've never heard of a segregated prom before, and I'm from Alabama.

I thought it meant they were letting Yankees in for the first time.

Please. Like we'd ever let Yankees join the fun. -shot-

Not sure if faith in humanity restored or reduced.

I read about this a a while ago. I was amused to see in the comment section that the most outraged people were other Georgians who swore up and down that they never knew this segregation thing had been happening.

edited 9th Apr '13 5:50:16 PM by Parable

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Wow. America, you continue to impress. What radical change are you going to have next, a black president? Pfft. That'll be the day.

edited 8th Apr '13 10:24:43 AM by Mukora

That's probably the problem here. The segregation that still exists is not talked about and overlooked. So the people that do care but aren't close enough to the situation to see it themselves, never hear about it and thus assume it's not happening.

Wait, they weren't before?

/southern United States

I...had no idea segregated proms were still accepted to begin with. I do recall the subject popping up in association with Sonny Perdue years ago, but I assumed that was an isolated incident.

This was apparently not a school set up prom, but set up by students and parents. So the tradition of it being segregated stay much, much longer. Not that the school should have let this go on like it did.

/people should read the article

edited 8th Apr '13 10:27:57 AM by MurkyMuse

That... doesn't really change much. The fact that it was a segregated prom in 2013, when America has had a black president for two terms is just as stupid whether it's made by the parents or the school.

I'm not saying the school isn't at fault for letting this happen for so long. The whole system and mindset is at fault.

FNORD

edited 31st Aug '13 1:02:56 PM by EdwardsGrizzly

@ Mukora: Half-black-half-white president. And it hasn't been two terms yet.

Sorry, I'm a pedant.

Now can we please give four-year-olds the vote. I refuse to accept the disenfranchisement of toddlers.

FNORD

edited 31st Aug '13 1:02:20 PM by EdwardsGrizzly

What.

That—it—

Yay?

Better late than never, but better never late.

@ATC: Unless he dies or gets impeached, I'm counting it as two terms.

And he may as well be pure black- everyone who refused to elect him based on his race saw him that way, and everyone who did elect him based on his race saw him that way, and history will most likely see him that way as well.

AMERICA...

Yep, the entire country only consists of a few states in the South. Go figure.

This is a shame. Also they are giving Georgia a bad name. I have had to defend Georgia from people think that all proms here are segregated, when that is not the case AT ALL. Any segregation at my school is self-segregation, but that's another story.

*sigh* Why can't people just listen to Michael Jackson? Or Paul Mc Cartney and Stevie Wonder? Or Three Dog Night? Or...quick, what are some other pro-integration songs?!??

edited 8th Apr '13 2:37:25 PM by 0dd1