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Integrated Prom......Did someone hit the way back machine???
I was hoping for a late April fools day but it seems there was no such luck. I know it is their right to be ignorant bigots but geez. The first integrated prom in 30 years? I just cannot wrap my head around the concept. I do not understand why the school district is not sponsoring a prom for everyone. And why Georgia? As if the south does not have a bad reputation with out this level of stupidity. This 2013 people. Come one in and take your shoes off.
Georgia High School Students Organize First-Ever Integrated Prom
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I support the idea of having separate proms if that is what they want to continue doing anywhere. The parents and students are making the choices, and if carrying forward separate proms is what they want to do, I say leave them alone.
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Nice to see that the students (though not all apparently) at the school want to have the intergrated prom. There is hope.
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I see no reason to get rid of the separate proms as far as private organized events go, but the school really should have an integrated prom as well. They've thrown their hands up and said "not my problem" for 30 years, maybe its time to have a prom like almost every other school in the country. By neglecting this (and it doesn't sound like the superintendent is thrilled to have such treachery as a prom in his district) they've pretty much fueled the fire.
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this brings back the memory of myself and my friend Homer going to GA to pick up an old Caddy back around 1980 something. First we stopped at a little restaurant (like a waffle house) along the interstate in GA and as I sat there I observed that the hostess sat all the black folks along the inner wall next to the kitchen, and all the white folks along the windows.
Then we were driving along a two lane road and I noticed a group of prisoners picking up trash and trimming along the road with an armed guard. They were on the right side of the road, soon we came upon another group on the left with their own guard. One group was white, the other black. You can pass laws but you cannot control what people think, so it does not surprise me that there is still prejudice alive and well. When I was a child, though my folks taught me that every body was equal, there was a lot of cultural prejudice all around. Jokes, etc were common and tolerated by most. I would describe myself as a converted non prejudiced person (trying anyway). My children though I would describe as naturally non prejudiced. Truly color blind.
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Man, this stuff still shocks me.
I was born in NC (Fayetteville) and moved to the NoVa area when I was 3. I've spent my life around more non-white people living there and now in Maryland then I have anywhere else. My HS was ~2,500 people and Caucasians were the minority. Heck, my AP chemistry class (which no one wanted to take) was only twelve people and I was the only Caucasian. Sure there were racial tensions, the Korean and Chinese kids didn't get along as the norm (no idea why), and there were some pretty big issues in the Latino/South American demographic, but I don't remember any discrimination over race (at least not that was seen publicly). I remember the few rednecks which moved into the area getting laughed at when they said "them nih-gras" (which ended pretty quickly when they realized a good portion of the class around them was black). I went to college in IL and saw a KKK member for the first time and a burning cross which I could see from the highway at night. The towns I lived in (three itty bitty towns literally across the street from each other) had only one Walmart for years and years. Then they decided to shut down that Walmart and build two Super Walmarts, one at the South end of the towns and one on the North end of the towns, both right off the highway exits. We went to the grand opening of both of them and found out pretty quickly that one was a "white" Walmart and one was a "black" Walmart. Employees, merchandise, and even customers made it pretty apparent. My wife and I started shopping at the "black" Walmart just to buck the trend. I just don't understand racism. It was never part of my life growing up, it's definitely not a part of my kid's life now. It's just so senseless. Hah... funny story I just remembered. Back in my HS days I wore my hair very short, "high and tight"/crew cut very short. And in my HS (actually in part of that AP Chemistry class I mentioned) there was this Iranian girl. I can't remember her name. She came up to me one day and asked out of the blue "are you a racist?" "No, I am not a racist" "Are you sure? Because you look very much like a racist." "Thank you, that's very racist of you." She tried to get me in trouble with an administrator because of that last comment. Thankfully it didn't work.
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I agree that this is very pathetic. At the same time, they DO have the right to operate that way, if they choose.
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Who does?
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Private groups of people.
As soon as the affair is sanctioned by the school, that right evaporates...IMHO As for parents who would want to put on segregated proms.... Let's just say I'm glad they aren't my neighbors
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I think my biggest issue is that schools are a device for teaching. This school/board has been teaching and endorsing racism for 30 years by not making any attempt (if the article is to be believed) to change the policy. I cannot help but find the behavior of these parents to be revolting. I cannot even fathom the idea of letting my kid (if I had one) go to a segregated anything much less a prom. This is 2013, not 1913. I would like to put up a huge bill board in the center of town asking them how it feels to be the poster child for racism in the US. How can you do this to your kids? I wonder if they would even realize it. Pathetic.
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Welcome to Jawga
We did not have a prom when I graduated because they did not want it integrated. I think they have integrated proms in town nowadays though.
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Aren't all proms, as an organized social gathering, segregated in one way or another? The "cool kids", the "jocks", the "nerds" and of course . . . kids in "band, orchestra and chorus" . . .
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I noticed the same exact activity of seating caucasian restaurant guests in the window seats just the other month numerous times in Nashville and Memphis, Tennessee when on the road while dining in a particular restaurant chain (Shoney's). To me, it was as obviously noticeable as your example at the Waffle House in Georgia. Why are they doing this? I dunno, but I can only think of two reasons as to why guests are seated separately as you and I noticed. One; seating caucasian ppl in the windows may have been determined by the restaurant management to be good for business, or two, the hostesses are seating ppl based on what they perceive ppl to be most comfortable with - sitting with their own kind. As to why the chain-gang roadside cutting crews are separated by race? I would guess that is a self-segregating activity based on which race individual inmates want to be a part of. |
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In the early seventies a bunch of my neighbors banded together to buy a house. They upped the offer of this scary black man. He turned out to be a cardio/vascular surgeon. He was slumming in our area because the hospital was only a mile away. In Sacramento CA.
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