Posted on 05/26/2009 3:39:05 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
About now, high-school seniors everywhere slip into a glorious sort of limbo. Waiting out the final weeks of the school year, they begin rightfully to revel in the shared thrill of moving on. It is no different in south-central Georgia’s Montgomery County, made up of a few small towns set between fields of wire grass and sweet onion. The music is turned up. Homework languishes. The future looms large. But for the 54 students in the class of 2009 at Montgomery County High School, so, too, does the past. On May 1 — a balmy Friday evening — the white students held their senior prom. And the following night — a balmy Saturday — the black students had theirs.
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
This is sad and bodes ill for our society.
I'm speechless. This is 2009 after all.
I’m not kidding, the NYTs and CBS flog this story every year.
I couldn’t link to the NYT article (didn’t want to register.)
Did any of the kids say WHY they do this?
If they have to do something as ridiculous as this, they shouldn’t have a prom at all.
Why do they continue doing this?
The idiocy happens anew every year; so of course it is reported anew every year.
Assuming that the “segregation” is voluntary I can’t see a problem.Citizens...black and white...still enjoy the right of free association.
I was wondering about that. I’ve read that churches, college organisations, etc, self-segregate by race. Are whites supposed to force everyone to share their clubs if people would rather have their own?
The explanation always seems to come down to the white kids’ parents. I don’t recall the white kids’ parents going on record explaining or defending themselves.
I’m perfectly fine with the Times flogging this story until the culprits get with the modern world. This is appalling and shameful!
Aren’t gays demanding their own proms, too?
So?
From the article it would appear that the kids have it figured out as they hang out with each other and practice inter racial dating.
It is a certain group of parents who have minds sruck in the 1930’s.
I guess.But it's not abnormal to be black or white.
Why does no one ask ONE simple question: why do MOST people in America - no matter whether white, black, “Hispanic”, or some denomination of Asian - of every political persuasion, and even in the most “integrated” communities, MOST often seek mates that they have ethnic commonality with?
Is it really “racism”, or simply what MOST humans have always done when looking for “compatibility”?
Isn’t it most likely that it was that natural gravitation to seek “commonality” that led, over a long-time process, to the distinctions that have come to be called “race”?
Isn’t there a true and honest and natural distinction, morally and intellectually, between “opposition” to “the other” and simple preference for the familiar? While the former maybe ought to be opposed, morally, must the later be opposed as well?
I think the best course is to let students involved in this issue, personally make their own choices; whatever those choices may be.
This is news and as long as this Old South tradition continues, we should be reminded of it every year
When is society going to learn that blacks and whites have their own culture? They have their own music, their own way of worship and everyone keeps trying to change that.
We might all be Americans but we’re different and will always be different.
You can’t make a cat into a dog or vice versa. They’re two different species and nothing you can do will change that.
Whites don’t want to be black and blacks don’t want to be white. Nothing is wrong with that, except when other people try to change it and make us all one and the same.
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