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Racially-integrated prom in Wilcox County, Georgia deemed a success (2013 news)
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Bel Marduk
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NBC affiliate WSAV obviously hasn't been to Mississippi..
samus i am
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Who'd a thunk it?
Little Old Man
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Count Dookkake
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However, it should be noted that Wilcox County High School never officially condemned the segregated prom.
Valkyr Junkie
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Read the article, people. The school itself has never sponsored a prom.
grandjedi6
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I want to know about the crazy parent that has been hosting a Whites-only prom for the last 40 years.
Who said they did?
SnakeswithLasers
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And people wonder why we are dragging our feet on gay marriage.
Syracuse022
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I keep accidentally reading "porn" in the thread title.
Woody Invincible
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Explain. I have not seen any segregated events here that were not black initiated, such as black spring break.
You Are Viewtiful
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Baby steps.
Devolution
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That forbidden fruit.
BertramCooper
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Long live the Confederacuh.
PhoenixDark
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1:20 mark
The Faceless Master
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yep, that's what i thought.
Mattlikewhoa
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Holy crap! I actually had to look at my wristwatch, to check the date after reading the article...
Admiral Bone to Pick
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I think if we want the Deep South to advance with the rest of the country, we have to appeal to their other hatreds.
"You know, desegregated proms would be something that radical Muslims would really hate."
"Terrorists hate gay marriage. If you legalized it, you'd sure show them."
"College educated people are vehemently against stem cell research." (Even though this one might just be a lie)
Etc.
"You know, desegregated proms would be something that radical Muslims would really hate."
"Terrorists hate gay marriage. If you legalized it, you'd sure show them."
"College educated people are vehemently against stem cell research." (Even though this one might just be a lie)
Etc.
Anticitizen One
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*shakes head in disgust*
Also, misread thread title as Racially-integrated porn in georgia deemed a success
Also, misread thread title as Racially-integrated porn in georgia deemed a success
Valkyr Junkie
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NoRéN;56133096 said:
Nobody explicitly, but before it has been more of a segregated private party than a segregated school event.
... you are being needlessly charitable. The official prom was canceled and replaced with private proms so that they could be segregated. Since there was no official prom, the segregated private proms effectively were the official proms.
This is made even more clear by the fact that now that they've desegregated the private prom, the school is going to make the prom official again.
Freaky Fred
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Oh, it says PROM
Well, glad they finally got an integrated prom that everyone was invited to. I wonder if the private invitation/whites-only prom still took place or what was the deal with that. Why was that 'tradition' still going on for so long.
Hopefully the school follows up with their statement and finds a way to sponsor the prom officially themselves next year so students don't have to shoulder all that responsibility.
Also, how hard is it for a school to sponsor a prom? Get decorations/refreshments/entertainment, see if any teachers want to volunteer to chaperone, then sell tickets/raffles to cover the cost. Not sure why this wasn't done a long time ago.
Hopefully the school follows up with their statement and finds a way to sponsor the prom officially themselves next year so students don't have to shoulder all that responsibility.
Also, how hard is it for a school to sponsor a prom? Get decorations/refreshments/entertainment, see if any teachers want to volunteer to chaperone, then sell tickets/raffles to cover the cost. Not sure why this wasn't done a long time ago.
If it was official, they would've had to desegregate it.
maquiladora
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"Put black people in white People"
While this is one of the last schools to still hold segregated events...
"In the typically colossal high schools of the Bronx, for instance, more than 90 percent of students (in most cases, more than 95 percent) are black or Hispanic. At John F. Kennedy High School in 2003, 93 percent of the enrollment of more than 4,000 students were black and Hispanic; only 3.5 percent of students at the school were white. At Harry S. Truman High School, black and Hispanic students represented 96 percent of the enrollment of 2,700 students; 2 percent were white. At Adlai Stevenson High School, which enrolls 3,400 students, blacks and Hispanics made up 97 percent of the student population; a mere eight tenths of one percent were white."
"In a Seattle neighborhood that I visited in 2002, for instance, where approximately half the families were Caucasian, 95 percent of students at the Thurgood Marshall Elementary School were black, Hispanic, Native American, or of Asian origin. An African-American teacher at the school told menot with bitterness but wistfullyof seeing clusters of white parents and their children each morning on the corner of a street close to the school, waiting for a bus that took the children to a predominantly white school."
- Jonathan Kozol, excerpts from The Shame of the Nation.
Segregation in our schools is worse than ever today, due to districting policies and social issues.
"In the typically colossal high schools of the Bronx, for instance, more than 90 percent of students (in most cases, more than 95 percent) are black or Hispanic. At John F. Kennedy High School in 2003, 93 percent of the enrollment of more than 4,000 students were black and Hispanic; only 3.5 percent of students at the school were white. At Harry S. Truman High School, black and Hispanic students represented 96 percent of the enrollment of 2,700 students; 2 percent were white. At Adlai Stevenson High School, which enrolls 3,400 students, blacks and Hispanics made up 97 percent of the student population; a mere eight tenths of one percent were white."
"In a Seattle neighborhood that I visited in 2002, for instance, where approximately half the families were Caucasian, 95 percent of students at the Thurgood Marshall Elementary School were black, Hispanic, Native American, or of Asian origin. An African-American teacher at the school told menot with bitterness but wistfullyof seeing clusters of white parents and their children each morning on the corner of a street close to the school, waiting for a bus that took the children to a predominantly white school."
- Jonathan Kozol, excerpts from The Shame of the Nation.
Segregation in our schools is worse than ever today, due to districting policies and social issues.
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