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Jason Tate
04/23/07, 07:38 PM
A high-school just threw their FIRST EVER integrated (black and white) prom.

http://news.google.com/nwshp?oe=UTF-8&tab=wn&ncl=1115641777&hl=en
and we whisper
04/23/07, 07:44 PM
I love how the parents organized the segregated proms.

"It's nothing racial"...well then what is it?
Smash Adams
04/23/07, 07:44 PM
I saw that before it is hard to believe
tambam
04/23/07, 07:49 PM
That's really sad to hear.
thejetstolehome
04/23/07, 08:00 PM
you spelled "disgusting" wrong.
music3chick
04/23/07, 08:15 PM
Yeah, I heard that on the news today. Considering it's the South, it doesn't surprise me all that much.
lew_1987
04/24/07, 05:04 AM
i didn't know that schools HADN'T thrown their first interracial proms.
IAPAI
04/24/07, 08:59 AM
haha, that is incredible! Wow.. You learn something new every day.
cantnokdahustle
04/24/07, 12:12 PM
This happened a couple of years ago as well. Does no one remember that?

I thought that last story was supposed to be the Last.
Burning Star IV
04/24/07, 12:18 PM
I had no idea they had seperate proms to begin with.
unwritten
04/24/07, 12:23 PM
what the f?
aminorthreat55
04/24/07, 03:14 PM
This happened a couple of years ago as well. Does no one remember that?

I thought that last story was supposed to be the Last.
I vaguely remember that.
and we whisper
04/24/07, 03:30 PM
This really shouldnt suprise me.
But things like this always do...
AnF1500
04/24/07, 06:26 PM
First intergrated prom...Georgia, no suprise.
Smithers
04/24/07, 06:28 PM
hopefully, in a decade or so, they'll ban the kids from taking family members for their dates.
cantnokdahustle
04/24/07, 07:33 PM
hopefully, in a decade or so, they'll ban the kids from taking family members for their dates.

HeartyFuckingHar... first cousins are, in fact, able to marry in Jersey.

So, in your world they can't dance with em, but they can sure as hell fuck em.
Andy K
04/25/07, 01:55 PM
"and many whites still attended their own private party a week earlier."

Klan meeting?

Yeah that's pretty bad, but you gotta consider this is just a little hick town in GA. They don't speak for the majority.
SgtFumunda
04/29/07, 08:38 AM
hopefully, in a decade or so, they'll ban the kids from taking family members for their dates.

Hopefully, in a decade or so, all the grease, trash, and smog that's in New Jersey will cause it to sink to the sea.
Spewk
04/29/07, 09:16 AM
...isnt segregation illegal?
SgtFumunda
04/29/07, 09:22 AM
...isnt segregation illegal?

Only if it's segregation by an entity that receive gov't funding. The proms mentioned in the article were thrown by the parents of the students, not by the school. Since the parents aren't an entity that receives gov't funding, they can throw a prom for only white people.
senatorlamb
04/29/07, 01:22 PM
Yeah, I heard that on the news today. Considering it's the South, it doesn't surprise me all that much.

The South may have been legally segregated but Northern schools are the most "silently" segregated.
the thread
04/29/07, 03:42 PM
this was also by choice. the students themselves opted for separate proms, it wasnt forced. this year they just decided to have them together and everyone wanted it.
Frequency
05/06/07, 09:26 AM
Wow, what a bunch of racists kids.
CountMeOut923
05/20/07, 10:03 AM
It's so hard to think that this happens. Yes, you can say that this is the south and blah blah, but come on it IS 2007. I mean, the thought that these things are happening in our day and age is absolutely mind blowing. Hearing stories like this in school was always crazy because it just felt like that happened so many years ago and that we've moved on as a country. I never thought I would actually be in college and hearing an actual school going through this.