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High school with separate proms (race issue)

Posted : 4/10/2007 11:03:55 PM

[linkhttp://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070410/ap_on_re_us/integrated_prom]http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070410/ap_on_re_us/integrated_prom[/link]

This year is no longer self segregated...the first year and low attendance is expected...amazing. Now here is an actual issue Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson should be focusing on..instead of Imus...perhaps? Nah...they'd probably just scare the kids lmao...

Thoughts?
eta: jackson...I am thinking of that motorcycle guy for some reason. How freudian!

Cita

Posted : 4/11/2007 9:20:27 AM

That is truly disturbing. At least they're trying to change, I guess? [&:] One has to wonder about the kids' parents and the local community...

g33

Posted : 4/11/2007 9:27:05 AM

LOL, you mean Jesse James (a.k.a Mr. Sandra Bullock)

That's funny, you couldn't get more redneck and opposite-end-of-the-spectrum from Jesse Jackson!

anne

Posted : 4/11/2007 11:49:43 AM

I may be naieve, but I find it shocking that things like this are still going on in 2007.

nGoldenm

Posted : 4/11/2007 2:59:05 PM

IMHO, if each "group" (races) wanted to have a prom separate from one another, then that's perfectly fine by me. Now if one group wanted an integrated prom, and the other did not, and it became a forced segregation, then that is wrong. A lot of things here in the South are still somewhat "unofficially" segregated. It isn't by force but rather by choice. Hence the expression "the other side of the tracks". A lot of small towns here are partly segregated, usually along the railroad tracks that run through the center of towns, one race on each side. Each race lives on a separate side of the tracks by choice and/or tradition.

rwbeagles

Posted : 4/11/2007 3:50:21 PM

Interesting...I always took that phrase to mean more of a class and money division..than a race one.

I think it starts to make me wonder tho...who's telling these young folks that things "should" be that way?...because it sure isn't something you are born with.

It's one thing to make a choice not to hang out with blacks or whites or whoever's...you know because of their personalities...but another if it's because "you were raised to feel that blacks and whites shouldn't mix" and that percludes you even getting to know them. I think the kids trying the integrated prom are very brave...and I applaud them...along with whatever mentors if any...encouraged them to give it a try.

marty_ga

Posted : 4/11/2007 4:09:42 PM

I got the impression that the kids themselves wanted to do this...they have made friends want to include everyone... and here in the deep South that is a wonderful step forward. Ashburn is not the only town in the past few years to do this. I have lived here since '83, and although things appear to be integrated, they really are struggling with this, and those kids are to be commended. Even in a military town, I do see prejudice, so every step forward gets kuddos from me!

rwbeagles

Posted : 4/11/2007 4:19:40 PM

Absolutely...it's really a great thing that they are even trying.
And that they did this on their own speaks volumes about people's ability to buck sterotypes and think openly....I hope it grows in attendance every single year!

DumDog

Posted : 4/11/2007 11:49:03 PM

i dont know if its that they were taught that on purpose generation after generation. but maybe its like white churchs and black churchs. its the same God.. same book.. same principles, but why not congregate together? Some do, i know that, but i dont know about anywhere else in the US, but it seems that the south is famous for the whole segregation by choice thing.
Regardless, i'm glad these kids are changing their views and want to do things differently! [sm=clapping%20hands%20smiley.gif] praise them for it, dont question them!