Segregated Proms...In 09? Word?
I didnt want to believe it. However tis tru
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From the Article:
Racially segregated proms have been held in Montgomery County — where about two-thirds of the population is white — almost every year since its schools were integrated in 1971. Such proms are, by many accounts, longstanding traditions in towns across the rural South, though in recent years a number of communities have successfully pushed for change. When the actor Morgan Freeman offered to pay for last year’s first-of-its-kind integrated prom at Charleston High School in Mississippi, his home state, the idea was quickly embraced by students — and rejected by a group of white parents, who held a competing “private” prom. (The effort is the subject of a documentary, “Prom Night in Mississippi,” which will be shown on HBO in July.)
Students of both races say that interracial friendships are common at Montgomery County High School. Black and white students also date one another, though often out of sight of judgmental parents. “Most of the students do want to have a prom together,” says Terra Fountain, a white 18-year-old who graduated from Montgomery County High School last year and is now living with her black boyfriend. “But it’s the white parents who say no. … They’re like, if you’re going with the black people, I’m not going to pay for it.”
We at least its the parents and not the kids. I've come to understand some people you can never save, you can never reason with because hate is simply who they are. Lucky for us alot of them are old and will die soon. Its also funny how you never seem to hear about these things.
Anyway here are some clips of the documentary coming soon to HBO
i would also like to say how happy i am that those kids were dressed like they had some damn sense
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